Coz we du things in England, 't ain't for you I'm told you write in public prints: ef true, It's nateral you should know a thing or two." "Thet air 's an argymunt I can't endorse, 't would prove, coz you wear spurs, you kep' a horse : For brains," sez I, "wutever you may think, Ain't boun' to cash the drafs o' pen-an'-ink, Though mos' folks write ez ef they hoped jes' quickenin' The churn would argoo skim-milk into thickenin'; But, come now, ef you wun't confess to knowin', You've some conjectures how the thing's a-goin'." "Gran'ther," sez I, "a vane warn't never known An' the wind settles wut the weather 'll be." "I never thought a scion of our stock Could grow the wood to make a weather-cock ; When I wuz younger 'n you, skurce more 'n a shaver, No airthly wind," sez he, "could make me waver!" (Ez he said this, he clinched his jaw an' fore head, Hitchin' his belt to bring his sword-hilt for rard.) "Jes' so it wuz with me," sez I, "I swow, When I wuz younger 'n wut you see me now, But now I'm gittin' on in life, I find It's a sight harder to make up my mind, The pinch comes in decidin' wut to du ; Ef They can't resist, nor warn't brought up with niggers; But come to try your the'ry on, why, then Your facts an' figgers change to ign'ant men You think thet 's ellerkence, I call it shoddy, You took to follerin' where the Prophets beckoned, An', fust you knowed on, back come Charles the Second; Now wut I want 's to hev all we gain stick, Thet exe of ourn, when Charles's neck gut split, Slav'ry's your Charles, the Lord hez gin the "Our Charles," sez I, "hez gut eight million necks. The hardest question ain't the black man's right, It's Slavery thet's the fangs an' thinkin' head, An' cresh it suddin, or you 'll larn by waitin' An' knowed jes' where the rub!" to strike, but there's "Strike soon," sez he, 66 or you 'll be deadly ailin', - Folks thet 's afeared to fail are sure o' failin'; and will to firs No. VII. LATEST VIEWS OF MR. BIGLOW. PRELIMINARY NOTE. [IT is with feelings of the liveliest pain that we inform our readers of the death of the Reverend Homer Wilbur, A. M., which took place suddenly, by an apoplectic stroke, on the afternoon of Christmas day, 1862. Our venerable friend (for so we may venture to call him, though we never enjoyed the high privilege of his personal acquaintance) was in his eighty-fourth year, having been born June 12, 1779, at Pigsgusset Precinct (now West Jerusha) in the then District of Maine. Graduated with distinction at Hubville College in 1805, he pursued his theological studies with the late Reverend Preserved Thacker, D. D., and was called to the charge of the First Society in Jaalam in 1809, where he remained till his death. "As an antiquary he has probably left no |