Since we're so bless'd, let's eat and drink
With thankfulness and gladness:
Should we kick o'er our cup of joy,
It would be _sartin_ madness.

CHORUS.

_Yankey Doodle, Boys; Huzza!
Down outside, up the middle--
Yankey Doodle_, fa, sol, la,
_Trumpet, Drum, and Fiddle._

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"Going snacks."

At the time of the plague in London, a noted body searcher
lived whose name was _Snacks_. His business increased so
fast that, finding he could not compass it, he offered to
any person who should join him in his hardened practice half
the profits; thus, those who joined him were said to go with
_Snacks_. Hence going _snacks_, or dividing the spoil.

_Salem Observer,_ 1823.

_A Word omitted by Webster_. In a history of the second
parish of Beverly, published not long since, a vote passed
in 1776, to take measures to collect the "behindments" of
certain persons in the parish, is noticed. "Behindments"
meant arrearages.

_Salem Observer,_ 1837.

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The following curious collection belonged to Mr. Samuel McIntire, the
architect of the South Meeting-House in Salem, whose spire is
acknowledged to be one of the best proportioned and handsomest in New
England:

_FOR SALE,_

SUNDRY Articles belonging to the Estate of SAMUEL MCINTIRE,
deceased.--VIZ.

1 elegant BARREL ORGAN, 6 feet high, 10 barrels; 1 Wind Chest of
an Organ;
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, complete;
Paladio's Architecture, best kind;
1 Ware's do.; 1 Paine's do.;
2 vols. French Architecture;
1 large Book Antient Statues, excellent;
Lock Hospital Collection of Music;
Handel's Messiah, in score;
Harmonia Sacra;
Magdalen Hymns; Massachusetts Compiler;
1 excellent toned SPINNET;
1 excellent VIOLIN and Case;
1 eight day CLOCK, Mahogany Case;
12 Prints of the Seasons;
1 book Drawings of Ships;
1 large Head of Washington;
Number of Busts of the Poets;
2 Figures of Hercules, 2 feet high;
1 Head of Franklin, and Pillar, for a Sign;
Composition Ornaments;
Number of Moulding Planes, and sundry other Articles. Apply to

ELIZABETH M'INTIRE, _A