re's decanter pleased him as well as Bourbon or
Monongahela.

When daylight came, the weary sentries were dismissed to the kitchen,
where, under Tryphena's direction, the insane woman took much pleasure
in providing for their creature comforts. The restraints upon Mr.
Maguffin's eloquence being removed, it flowed in a grandiloquent stream.
"Lave the cratur to me, Annerew," whispered Mr. Hill; "lave the nagur to
me, and if I don't flummix and flabbergast his consayted voccabuelary, I
was never a taycher." Then, turning to the coloured gentleman, he
remarked in an incidental sort of way: "Were you ever in the company of
deipnosophists before, Mr. Magoffin, deipnosophists mind! enjoyin' a
gastromical repast?"

Mr. Maguffin's eyes expanded, and his jaw dropped.

"Yoh's got the devantidge ob yoh 'umble sarvant, Mistah Hill."

"It's not possible that a gentleman of your larnin' is ignorant of such
simple, aisy polysyllables as them?"

"I'se afeard yoh's got me this time, sah."

"It stands to raison that there's limits to everybody's voccabuelary,
onless it's a great scholard like Mr. Wilkinson; but I thought, perhaps,
it was for a school taycher you would be settin' up?"

"Oh my! no, Mistah Hill, my edurecation was passimoniously insurficient.
Most all my bettah class language I'se acquied fom clugymen ob de Baktis
pussuasion."

"And they never tayched ye deipnosophist nor gastromical?"

"No, sah, they didn't, I'se humblerated ter confess."

The old schoolmaster looked at Mr. Hislop with a serious expression of
mingled incredulity and commiseration, saying: "Such ignerance, Annerew,
such ignerance!"; and somehow Mr. Maguffin did not see his way to
gathering up the broken threads of conversation.

Timotheus was despatched by the Squire to summon a brother J.P., and the
township constable, in order that immediate action against known
criminal parties might be taken, as well as to notify the farmers
adjacent that they were expected to sit in a coroner's jury. Having made
all necessary legal arrangements, the Squire returned to the colonel,
who, from a memorandum before him, sketched the plan of campaign. He
proposed to put the five Richards as marines under the command of the
Captain to break down the grating between the third and fourth lakes,
and push on to attack the enemy from that side. He wanted four mounted
men armed with revolvers, and with stout sticks in lieu of swords,
fearless horsemen whom he could lead