Chapter M: C., an invertebrate animal, 49

Mechanics' Fair, reflections suggested at, 87.

Mentor, letters of, dreary, 76.

Mephistopheles at a nonplus, 62.

Mexican blood, its effect in raising price of cloth, 103.

Mexican polka, 24.

Mexicans charged with various breaches of etiquette, 22
--kind feelings beaten into them, 70.

Mexico, no glory in overcoming, 45.

Military glory spoken disrespectfully of, 17, _note_
--militia treated still worse, _ib._

Milk-trees, growing still, 100.

Mills for manufacturing gabble, how driven, 53.

Milton, an unconscious plagiary, 43, _note_
--a Latin verse of, cited, 66.

Missions, a profitable kind of, 67.

Monarch, a pagan, probably not favoured in philosophical experiments, 12.

Money-trees desirable, 100
--that they once existed shown to be variously probable, _ib._

Montaigne, a communicative old Gascon, 75.

Monterey, battle of, its singular chromatic effect on a species of
two-headed eagle, 50.

Moses held up vainly as an example, 65
--construed by Joe Smith, _ib._

Myths, how to interpret readily, 84.

Naboths, Popish ones, how distinguished, 25.

Nation, rights of, proportionate to size, 20.

National pudding, its effect on the organs of speech, a curious
physiological fact, 25.

Nephelim, not yet extinct, 124.

New England overpoweringly honoured, 48
--wants no more speakers, _ib._
--done brown by whom, _ib._
--her experience in beans beyond Cicero's, 84.

Newspaper, the, wonderful, 70
--a strolling theatre, 71
--thoughts suggested by tearing wrapper of, 72
--a vacant sheet, _ib._
--a sheet in which a vision was let down, 73
--wrapper to a bar of soap, _ib._
--a cheap impromptu platter, _ib._

New York, Letters from, commended, 76.

Next life, what, 72.

Niggers, 5
--area of abusing extended, 46
--Mr. Sawin's opinions of, 117.

Ninepence a day low for murder, 14.

No, a monosyllable, 25
--hard to utter, _ib._

Noah, inclosed letter in bottle, probably, 75.

Nornas, Lapland, what, 101.

North, has no business, 58
--bristling, crowded off roost, 81.

North Bend, geese inhumanly treated at, 82
--mentioned, 113.

North Star, a proposition to indict, 62.

Off ox, 70.

Officers, miraculous transformation in character of, 21
--Anglo-Saxon, come very near being anathematized, 22.

O'Phace, Increase D., Esq., speech of, 40.

Oracle of Fools, still respectfully consulted, 41.

Orion, becomes commonplace, 73.

Orrery, Lord, his letters (lord!), 76.

Ostracism, curious species of, 41.

Palestine, 23.

Palfrey, Hon. J. G., 41, 50 (a worthy representative of Massachusetts.)

Pantagruel recommends a popular oracle, 41.

Panurge, his interview with Goatsnose, 84.

Papists, female, slain by zealous Protestant bomb-shell, 104.

Paralipomenon, a man suspected of being, 82.

Paris, liberal principles safe as far away as, 66.

_Parliamentum Indoctorum_ sitting in permanence, 44.

Past, the, a good nurse, 55.

Patience, sister, quoted, 16.

Paynims, their throats propagandistically cut, 23.

Penelope, her wise choice, 32.

People, soft enough, 68
--want correct ideas, 97.

Pepin, King, 76.

Periwig, 80.

Persius, a pithy saying of, 46, _note_.

Pescara, Marquis, saying of, 10.

Peter, Saint, a letter of (_post-mortem_), 76.

Pharisees, opprobriously referred to, 66.

Philippe, Louis, in pea-jacket, 71.

Phlegyas quoted, 63.

Phrygian language, whether Adam spoke it, 11.

Pilgrims, the, 45.

Pillows, constitutional, 49.

Pinto, Mr., some letters of his commended, 76.

Pisgah, an impromptu one, 100.

Platform, party, a convenient one, 97.

Plato, supped with, 75
--his man, 82.

Pleiades, the, not enough esteemed, 73.

Pliny, his letters not admired, 76.

Plotinus, a story of, 55.

Plymouth Rock, Old, a Convention wrecked on, 45.

Point Tribulation, Mr. Sawin wrecked on, 100.

Poles, exile, whether crop of beans depends on, 19, _note_.

Polk, President, synonymous with our country, 30
--censured, 44
--in danger of being crushed, 46.

Polka, Mexican, 24.

Pomp, a runaway slave, his nest, 117
--hypocritically groans like white man, 118
--blind to Christian privileges, 119
--his society valued at fifty dollars, _ib._
--his treachery, 120
--takes Mr. Sawin prisoner, 121
--cruelly makes him work, _ib._
--puts himself illegally under his tuition, 122
--dismisses him with contumelious epithets, _ib._

Pontifical bull, a tamed one, 22.

Pope, his verse excellent, 11.

Pork, refractory in boiling, 22.

Portugal, Alphonso the Sixth of, a monster, 123.

Post, Boston, 33
--shaken visibly, 34
--bad guide-post, _ib._
--too swift, _ib._
--edited by a colonel, _ib._
--who is presumed officially in Mexico, _ib._
--referred to, 59.

Pot-hooks, death in, 59.

Preacher, an ornamental symbol, 65
--a breeder of dogmas, _ib._
--earnestness of, important, 123.

Present, considered as an annalist, 65
--not long wonderful, 73.

President, slaveholding natural to, 66
--must be a Southern resident, 98
--must own a nigger, _ib._

Principle, exposure spoils it, 43.

Principles, bad, when less harmful, 27.

Prophecy, a notable one, 51, _note_.

Proviso, bitterly spoken of, 79.

Prudence, sister, her idiosyncratic teapot, 92.

Psammeticus, an experiment of, 11.

Public opinion a blind and drunken guide, 25
--nudges Mr. Wilbur's elbow, 26
--ticklers of, 45.

Pythagoras a bean-hater, why, 84.

Pythagoreans, fish reverenced by, why, 54.

Quixote, Don, 57.

Rag, one of sacred college, 25.

Rantoul, Mr., talks loudly, 16
--pious reason for not enlisting, _ib._

Recruiting sergeant, Devil supposed the first, 10.

Representatives' Chamber, 54.

Rhinothism, society for promoting, 74.

Rhyme, whether natural _not_ considered, 11.

Rib, an infrangible one, 90.

Richard the First of England, his Christian fervour, 23.

Riches conjectured to have legs as well as wings, 62.

Robinson, Mr. John P., his opinions fully stated, 27-31.

Rocks, pocket full of, 91.

Rough and Ready, 111
--a wig, 112
--a kind of scratch, _ib._

Russian eagle turns Prussian blue, 50.

Sabbath, breach of, 27.

Sabellianism, one accused of, 82.

Saltillo, unfavourable view of, 17.

Salt-river in, Mexican, what, 17.

Samuel, Uncle, riotous, 50
--yet has qualities demanding reverence, 66
--a good provider for his family, 68
--an exorbitant bill of, 103.

Sansculottes, draw their wine before drinking, 61.

Santa Anna, his expensive leg, 96.

Satan, never wants attorneys, 22
--an expert talker by signs, _ib._
--a successful fisherman with little or no bait, 23
--cunning fetch of, 27
--dislikes ridicule, 34
--ought not to have credit of ancient oracles, 51, _note_.

Satirist, incident to certain dangers, 28.

Savages, Canadian, chance of redemption offered to, 123.

Sawin, B., Esquire, his letter not written in verse, 11
--a native of Jaalam, 12
--not regular attendant on Rev. Mr. Wilbur's preaching, _ib._
--a fool, _ib._
--his statements trustworthy, _ib._
--his ornithological tastes, _ib._
--letter from, 13, 86, 106
--his curious discovery in regard to bayonets, 15
--displays proper family pride, _ib._
--modestly confesses himself less wise than the Queen of Sheba, 19
--the old Adam in, peeps out, 21
--a _miles emeritus_, 86
--is made text for a sermon, _ib._
--loses a leg, 88
--an eye, 89
--left hand, _ib._
--four fingers of right hand, _ib._
--has six or more ribs broken, _ib._
--a rib of his infrangible, 90
--allows a certain amount of preterite greenness in himself, 90, 91
--his share of spoil limited, _ib._
--his opinion of Mexican climate, 92
--acquires property of a certain sort, 93
--his experience of glory, 93, 94
--stands sentry, and puns thereupon, 95
--undergoes martyrdom in some of its most painful forms, _ib._
--enters the candidating business, 96
--modestly states the (avail) abilities which qualify him for high
political station, 96, 99
--has no principles, 96
--a peaceman, _ib._
--unpledged, 97
--has no objections to owning _peculiar_ property, but would not like
to monopolize the truth, 98
--his account with glory, 99
--a selfish motive hinted in, 100
--sails for Eldorado, _ib._
--shipwrecked on a metaphorical promontory, _ib._
--parallel between, and Rev. Mr. Wilbur (not Plutarchian), 102
--conjectured to have bathed in river Selemnus, 106
--loves plough wisely, but not too well, _ib._
--a foreign mission probably expected by, 107
--unanimously nominated for presidency, 108
--his country's father-in-law, 109
--nobly emulates Cincinnatus, 110
--is not a crooked stick, _ib._
--advises his adherents, _ib._
--views of, on present state of politics, 110-117
--popular enthusiasm for, at Bellers's, and its disagreeable
consequences, 111
--inhuman treatment of, by Bellers, 112
--his opinion of the two parties, 113
--agrees with Mr. Webster, _ib._
--his antislavery zeal, 115
--his proper self-respect, _ib._
--his unaffected piety, _ib._
--his not intemperate temperance, 117
--a thrilling adventure of, 117-122
--his prudence and economy, 117
--bound to Captain Jakes, but regains his freedom, 119
--is taken prisoner, 121-122
--ignominiously treated, 121-122
--his consequent resolution, 122.

Sayres, a martyr, 55.

Scaliger, saying of, 28.

_Scarabaeus pilularius_, 18.

Scott, General, his claims to the presidency, 34, 37.

Scythians, their diplomacy commended, 84.

Seamen, coloured, sold, 8.

Selemnus, a sort of Lethean river, 106.

Senate, debate in, made readable, 55.

Seneca, saying of, 27
--another, 51
--overrated by a saint (but see Lord Bolingbroke's opinion of, in a
letter to Dean Swift), 76
--his letters not commended, _ib._
--a son of Rev. Mr. Wilbur, 102.

Serbonian bog of literature, 54.

Sextons, demand for, 61
--heroic official devotion of one, 120.

Shaking fever, considered as an employer, 93.

Shakspeare, a good reporter, 40.

Sham, President, honest, 45.

Sheba, Queen of, 19.

Sheep, none of Rev. Mr. Wilbur's turned wolves, 12.

Shem, Scriptural curse of, 122.

Show, natural to love it, 17, _note_.

Silver spoon born in Democracy's mouth what, 43.

Sinai suffers outrages, 66.

Sin, wilderness of, modern, what, 66.

Skin, hole in, strange taste of some for, 94.

Slaughter, whether God strengthen us for, 24.

Slaughterers and soldiers compared, 104.

Slaughtering nowadays _is_ slaughtering, 104.

Slavery, of no colour, 6
--cornerstone of liberty, 52
--also keystone, 58
--last crumb of Eden, 61
--a Jonah, 62
--an institution, 80
--a private State concern, 118.

Smith, Joe, used as a translation, 65.

Smith, John, an interesting character, 74.

Smith, Mr., fears entertained for, 63
--dined with, 75.

Smith, N. B., his magnanimity, 75.

Soandso, Mr., the great, defines his position, 75.

Sol, the fisherman, 18
--soundness of respiratory organs hypothetically attributed to, _ib._

Solon, a saying of, 25.

South Carolina, futile attempt to anchor, 57.

Spanish, to walk, what, 20.

Speech-making, an abuse of gift of speech, 53.

Star, north, subject to indictment, whether, 62.

Store, cheap cash, a wicked fraud, 102.

Strong, Governor Caleb, a patriot, 32.

Swearing, commended as a figure of speech, 13, _note_.

Swift, Dean, threadbare saying of, 34.

Tag, elevated to the Cardinalate, 25.

Taxes, direct, advantages of, 103.

Taylor zeal, its origin, 111
--General, greased by Mr. Choate, 113.

Thanks, get lodged, 93.

Thirty-nine articles might be made serviceable, 24.

Thor, a foolish attempt of, 57.

Thumb, General Thomas, a valuable member of society, 49.

Thunder, supposed in easy circumstances, 90.

Thynne, Mr., murdered, 10.

Time, an innocent personage to swear by, 13, _note_
--a scene-shifter, 72.

Toms, Peeping, 74.

Trees, various kinds of extraordinary ones, 100.

Trowbridge, William, mariner, adventure of, 24.

Truth and falsehood start from same point, 27
--truth invulnerable to satire, _ib._
--compared to a river, 40
--of fiction sometimes truer than fact, _ib._
--told plainly, _passim_.

Tuileries, exciting scene at, 51.

Tully, a saying of, 43, _note_.

Tweedledee, gospel according to, 66.

Tweedledum, great principles of, 66.

Ulysses, husband of Penelope, 32
--borrows money, 101. (For full particulars of, see Homer and Dante.)

University, triennial catalogue of, 36.

Van Buren fails of gaining Mr. Sawin's confidence, 116
--his son John reproved, _ib._

Van, Old, plan to set up, 115.

Venetians, invented something once, 101.

Vices, cardinal, sacred conclave of, 24.

Victoria, Queen, her natural terror, 50.

Vratz, Captain, a Pomeranian, singular views of, 10.

Walpole, Horace, classed, 75
--his letters praised, 76.

Waltham Plain, Cornwallis at, 14.

Walton, punctilious in his intercourse with fishes, 25.

War, abstract, horrid, 79
--its hoppers, grist of, what, 94.

Warton, Thomas, a story of, 38.

Washington, charge brought against, 109.

Washington, city of, climatic influence of, on coats, 44
--mentioned, 55
--grand jury of, 62.

Washingtons, two hatched at a time by improved machine, 109.

Wate, Taunton, proverbially weak, 117.

Water-trees, 100.

Webster, some sentiments of, commended by Mr. Sawin, 113.

Westcott, Mr., his horror, 61.

Whig party, has a large throat, 35
--but query as to swallowing spurs, 114.

White-house, 81.

Wife-trees, 100.

Wilbur, Rev. Homer, A. M., consulted, 2
--his instructions to his flock, 12
--a proposition of his for Protestant bombshells, 24
--his elbow nudged, 26
--his notions of satire, 27
--some opinions of his quoted with apparent approval by Mr. Biglow, 31
--geographical speculations of, 32
--a justice of the peace, _ib._
--a letter of, 33
--a Latin pun of, _ib._
--runs against a post without injury, 34
--does not seek notoriety (whatever some malignants may affirm), 36
--fits youths for college, _ib._
--a chaplain during late war with England, 38
--a shrewd observation of, 40
--some curious speculations of, 52, 54
--his martello-tower, 53
--forgets he is not in pulpit, 62, 86
--extracts from sermon of, 64, 70
--interested in John Smith, 74
--his views concerning present state of letters, 74, 77
--a stratagem of, 82
--ventures two hundred and fourth interpretation of Beast in
Apocalypse, 83
--christens Hon. B. Sawin, then an infant, 86
--an addition to our _sylva_ proposed by, 100
--curious and instructive adventure of, 101, 102
--his account with an unnatural uncle, 103
--his uncomfortable imagination, 104
--speculations concerning Cincinnatus, 106
--confesses digressive tendency of mind, 123
--goes to work on sermon (not without fear that his readers will dub
him with a reproachful epithet like that with which Isaac
Allerton, a Mayflower man, revenges himself on a delinquent
debtor of his, calling him in his will, and thus holding him
up to posterity, as "John Peterson, THE BORE"), 125.

Wilbur, Mrs., an invariable rule of, 37
--her profile, _ib._

Wildbore, a vernacular one, how to escape, 54.

Wind, the, a good Samaritan, 86.

Wooden leg, remarkable for sobriety, 88
--never eats pudding, 90.

Wright, Colonel, providentially rescued, 18.

Wrong, abstract, safe to oppose, 46.

Zack, Old, 110.

THE END.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Biglow Papers, by James Russell Lowell