such an opportunity to enlarge
the cacology, by actual hearing, of some of his most amusing characters.

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[13] Quoted in Dasent's "Jest and Earnest." London, 1873.

INDEX

Academy, of good standing, 137
Adams, J. Q., 134
Addison on English Superstition, 176
Adventure of American Sea-captain with Christophe, Emperor of Hayti, 61
"Algerines;" their Quarrel with Foreign Sailors, 74
Ancient Elder, 120
Ancient Episcopal Church; its former Rector, Bishop of Massachusetts,
114, 130
Apparition, an, 184
Aristocracy, 21
Aunt Judith, 23
Aunt Judith's Narrative of Witchcraft, 169

Balaklava Charge, 28
Bar, dangerous, 6
Bartlett, William, 33
Beggars, mimic, 106
Beverages, formerly, 96
Bishop Bass, 130
Bold Youngster, 165
Books, some that we read, 138, 139
Borderers, 74
Boyish Sports, 14
Bradbury, Judge, 34
British Orders in Council, 108
Bromfield Legacy, 18
Buchan, Earl of, 63

Campbell, "Tom," 27
Cannon for street posts, 58
Capen, Parson, 178
Characteristic Letter, 40
Christmas Evening, 161
Christmas Hymn, 163
Christophe of Hayti, 61
Clergy of the town, 122
Clergyman, Scottish, 166
Collector Marquand, 37
Collector Wigglesworth, 36
Comparative value of money, 21
Congregation, "Scrupulous," 122
Consequences of war and embargo, 57
Court of Common Pleas, 83
Cunning expedient, 22

Dalton, Tristram, 34
Damage of war, 38
Dana, Rev. Dr., 128
Dangerous bar, 6
Devil's den, 15
Dexter, "Lord," 63
Dexter's poet, 66
Dinah for Diana, 145
Discourse of Rev. Mr. Murray, 99
Dissatisfied washerwoman, 104
Dogberry and Verges, 198
Domestic, Scottish, 104

Earl of Buchan, 63
Earthquakes in former times, 113
Edinburgh, similar habits in, 10
Elder, an old-fashioned, 120
Emperor of Hayti, 61
English Clergymen, 124
English Reader. Are modern text-books as useful?, 137
English superstition, 176
Enterprise, Maritime and Commercial, 5
Extraordinary images, 63

Failure, swindling, 103
Favor, Johnny: his opinion of polemics, 133
Few insane persons, and the treatment of them formerly, 45
Fights of boys, 10
Fine trees, 17
Fire, strange, 190
Fire, the "great," 103
Foot-warming process, 118
Former Rector of St. Paul's a Bishop, 130
Former severe winters, 1
Former solemn proceedings in naturalization, 110
Fourth of July, 98
Fright of an old woman, 100