Chapter C: D., friends of, can hear of him, 76

Chalk egg, we are proud of incubation of, 75.

Chappelow on Job, a copy of, lost, 65.

Cherubusco, news of, its effects on English royalty, 50.

Chesterfield no letter-writer, 76.

Chief Magistrate, dancing esteemed sinful by, 24.

Children naturally speak Hebrew, 11.

China-tree, 100.

Chinese, whether they invented gunpowder before the Christian era,
_not_ considered, 25.

Choate hired, 113.

Christ shuffled into Apocrypha, 25
--conjectured to disapprove of slaughter and pillage, 30
--condemns a certain piece of barbarism, 63.

Christianity, profession of, plebian, whether, 10.

Christian soldiers, perhaps inconsistent, whether, 38.

Cicero, an opinion of, disputed, 84.

Cilley, Ensign, author of nefarious sentiment, 26.

_Cimex lectularius_, 18.

Cincinnatus, a stock character in modern comedy, 106.

Civilization, progress of, an _alias_, 65
--rides upon a powder-cart, 79.

Clergymen, their ill husbandry, 64
--their place in processions, 105
--some, cruelly banished for the soundness of their lungs, 123.

Cocked-hat, advantages of being knocked into, 77.

College of Cardinals, a strange one, 25.

Colman, Dr. Benjamin, anecdote of, 38.

Coloured folks, curious national diversion of kicking, 19.

Colquitt, a remark of, 60
--acquainted with some principles of aerostation, _ib._

Columbia, District of, its peculiar climatic effects, 44
--not certain that Martin is for abolishing it, 115.

Columbus, a Paul Pry of genius, 74.

Columby, 109.

Complete Letter-Writer, fatal gift of, 82.

Compostella, St. James of, seen, 22.

Congress, singular consequence of getting into, 43.

Congressional debates, found instructive, 53.

Constituents, useful for what, 44.

Constitution trampled on, 58
--to stand upon, what, 78.

Convention, what, 44.

Convention, Springfield, 44.

Coon, old, pleasure in skinning, 59.

Coppers, _caste_ in picking up of, 94.

Copres, a monk, his excellent method of arguing, 54.

Cornwallis, a, 14
--acknowledged entertaining, _ib._, _note_.

Cotton Mather, summoned as witness, 23.

Country lawyers, sent providentially, 31.

Country, our, its boundaries more exactly defined, 32
--right or wrong, nonsense about exposed, _ib._

Courier, The Boston, an unsafe print, 52.

Court, General, farmers sometimes attain seats in, 107.

Cowper, W., his letters commended, 76.

Creed, a safe kind of, 97.

Crusade, first American, 23.

Cuneiform script recommended, 85.

Curiosity distinguishes man from brutes, 74.

Davis, Mr., of Mississippi, a remark of his, 59.

Day and Martin, proverbially "on hand," 2.

Death, rings down curtain, 72.

Delphi, oracle of, surpassed, 51, _note_
--alluded to, 83.

Destiny, her account, 49.

Devil, the, unskilled in certain Indian tongues, 23.

Dey of Tripoli, 55.

Diaz, Bernal, has a vision, 22
--his relationship to the Scarlet Woman, _ib._

Didymus, a somewhat voluminous grammarian, 83.

Dighton rock character might be usefully employed in some emergencies, 84.

Dimitry Bruisgins, fresh supply of, 73.

Diogenes, his zeal for propagating certain variety of olive, 100.

Dioscuri, imps of the pit, 23.

District-Attorney, contemptible conduct of one, 55.

Ditchwater on brain, a too common ailing, 54.

Doctor, the, a proverbial saying of, 22.

Doughface, yeast-proof, 69.

Drayton, a martyr, 55
--north star, culpable for aiding, whether, 62.

Earth, Dame, a peep at her housekeeping, 56.

Eating words, habit of, convenient in time of famine, 49.

Eavesdroppers, 74.

Editor, his position, 64
--commanding pulpit of, _ib._
--large congregation of, _ib._
--name derived from what, 66
--fondness for mutton, _ib._
--a pious one, his creed, _ib._
--a showman, 71
--in danger of sudden arrest, without bail, 72.

Editors, certain ones who crow like cockerels, 7.

Egyptian darkness, phial of, use for, 84.

Eldorado, Mr. Sawin sets sail for, 100.

Elizabeth, Queen, mistake of her ambassador, 41.

Empedocles, 74.

Employment, regular, a good thing, 93.

Epaulets, perhaps no badge of saint-ship, 30.

Episcopius, his marvellous oratory, 123.

Eric, king of Sweden, his cap, 101.

Evangelists, iron ones, 24.

Eyelids, a divine shield against authors, 54.

Ezekiel, text taken from, 64.

Factory-girls, expected rebellion of, 60.

Family-trees, fruit of jejune, 100.

Faneuil Hall, a place where persons tap themselves for a species of
hydrocephalus, 54
--a bill of fare mendaciously advertised in, 100.

Father of country, his shoes, 108.

Female Papists, cut off in midst of idolatry, 104.

Fire, we all like to play with it, 56.

Fish, emblematic, but disregarded, where, 54.

Flam, President, untrustworthy, 45.

Fly-leaves, providential increase of, 54.

Foote, Mr., his taste for field-sports, 58.

Fourier, a squinting toward, 52.

Fourth of Julys, boiling, 42.

France, a strange dance begun in, 61.

Fuller, Dr. Thomas, a wise saying of, 28.

Funnel, Old, hurraing in, 15.

Gawain, Sir, his amusements, 56.

Gay, S. H., Esquire, editor of National Antislavery Standard, letter
to, 74.

Getting up early, 4, 20.

Ghosts, some, presumed fidgety, (but see Stilling's Pneumatology,) 75.

Giants formerly stupid, 56.

Gift of Tongues, distressing case of, 53.

Globe Theatre, cheap season-ticket to, 72.

Glory, a perquisite of officers, 94
--her account with B. Sawin, Esq., 99.

Goatsnose, the celebrated interview, with, 84.

Gray's letters _are_ letters, 76.

Great horn spoon, sworn by, 58.

Greeks, ancient, whether they questioned candidates, 84.

Green Man, sign of, 35.

Ham, sandwich, an orthodox (but peculiar) one, 62.

Hamlets, machine for making, 87.

Hammon, 51, _note_, 83.

Hannegan, Mr., something said by, 59.

Harrison, General, how preserved, 82.

Hat-trees, in full bearing, 100.

Hawkins, Sir John, stout, something he saw, 100.

Henry the Fourth, of England, a Parliament of, how named, 41.

Hercules, his second labour probably what, 124.

Herodotus, story from, 11.

Hesperides, an inference from, 100.

Holden, Mr. Shearjashub, Preceptor of Jaalam Academy, 83
--his knowledge of Greek limited, _ib._
--a heresy of his, _ib._
--leaves a fund to propagate it, 84.

Hollis, Ezra, goes to a Cornwallis, 14.

Hollow, why men providentially so constructed, 42.

Homer, a phrase of, cited, 65.

Horners, democratic ones, plums left for, 46.

Howell, James, Esq. story told by, 41
--letters of, commended, 76.

Human rights out of order on the floor of Congress, 58.

Humbug, ascription of praise to, 70
--generally believed in, _ib._

Husbandry, instance of bad, 28.

Icarius, Penelope's father, 32.

Infants, prattlings of, curious observation concerning, 11.

Information wanted (universally, but especially at page), 76.

Jaalam Centre, Anglo-Saxons unjustly suspected by the young ladies
there, 21
--"Independent Blunderbuss," strange conduct of editor of, 64
--public meeting at, 77.

Jaalam Point, light-house on charge of prospectively offered to Mr. H.
Biglow, 81
--meeting-house ornamented with imaginary clock, 102.

Jakes, Captain, 119
--reproved for avarice, _ib._

James the Fourth of Scots, experiment by, 11.

Jarnagin, Mr., his opinion of the completeness of Northern education, 60.

Jerome, Saint, his list of sacred writers, 76.

Job, Book of, 10
--Chappelow on, 65.

Johnson, Mr., communicates some intelligence, 61.

Jonah, the inevitable destiny of, 62
--probably studied internal economy of the cetacea, 75.

Jortin, Dr., cited 39, 51, _note_.

Judea, everything not known there, 31.

Juvenal, a saying of, 50, _note_.

Kay, Sir, the, of modern chivalry, who, 56.

Key, brazen one, 55.

Keziah, Aunt, profound observation of, 3.

Kinderhook, 106.

Kingdom Come, march to, easy, 89.

Koenigsmark, Count, 10.

Lamb, Charles, his epistolary excellence, 76.

Latimer, Bishop, episcopizes Satan, 10.

Latin tongue, curious information concerning, 33.

Launcelot, Sir, a trusser of giants formerly, perhaps would find less
sport therein now, 56.

Letters classed, 76
--their shape, _ib._
--of candidates, 81
--often fatal, 82.

Lewis Philip, a scourger of young native Americans, 50
--commiserated (though not deserving it,) 51, _note_.

Liberator, a newspaper, condemned by implication, 35.

Liberty unwholesome for men of certain complexions, 66.

Lignum vitae, a gift of this valuable wood proposed, 22.

Longinus recommends swearing, 13, _note_ (Fuseli did same thing).

Long sweetening recommended, 90.

Lost arts, one sorrowfully added to list of, 124.

Louis the Eleventh of France, some odd trees of his, 100.

Lowell, Mr. J. R., unaccountable silence of, 33.

Luther, Martin, his first appearance as Europa, 22.

Lyttelton, Lord, his letters, an imposition, 76.

Macrobii, their diplomacy, 84.

Mahomet, got nearer Sinai than some, 66.

Mahound, his filthy gobbets, 23.

Mangum, Mr., speaks to the point, 58.

Manichaean, excellently confuted, 54.

Man-trees, grew where, 100.

Mares'-nests, finders of, benevolent, 75.

Marshfield, 106, 113.

Martin, Mr. Sawin used to vote for him, 115.

Mason and Dixon's line, slaves north of, 58.

Mass, the, its duty defined, 59.

Massachusetts, on her knees, 8
--something mentioned in connection with, worthy the attention of
tailors, 44
--citizen of, baked, boiled, and roasted (_nefandum!_), 95.

Masses, the, used as butter by some, 46.