Wake snakes, to get into trouble.
Wal, well; spoken with great deliberation, and sometimes with the a very much flattened, sometimes (but more seldom) very much broadened.
Wannut, walnut (hickory).
Ware, where.
Ware, were.
Whopper, an uncommonly large lie; as, that General Taylor is in favor of the Wilmot Proviso.
Wig, Whig; a party now dissolved.
Wunt, will not.
Wus, worse.
Wut, what.
Wuth, worth; as, Antislavery perfessions 'fore
'lection aint wuth a Bungtown copper.
Wuz, was, sometimes were.
A. wants his axe ground, 261.
A. B., information wanted concerning, 194.
Abraham (Lincoln), his constitutional scruples,
261.
Abuse, an, its usefulness, 272.
Adam, eldest son of, respected, 175 - his fall,
278-how if he had bitten a sweet apple?
281.
Adam, Grandfather, forged will of, 250.
Eneas goes to hell, 202.
Arms, profession of, once esteemed especially
that of gentlemen, 175.
Arnold, 184.
Ashland, 203.
Astor, Jacob, a rich man, 199.
Astræa, nineteenth century forsaken by, 202.
Athenians, ancient, an institution of, 183.
Atherton, Senator, envies the loon, 190.
"Atlantic," editors of. See Neptune.
Atropos, a lady skilful with the scissors, 280.
Austin, Saint, profane wish of, 184, note-
prayer of, 236.
Eolus, a seller of money, as is supposed by Austrian eagle split, 273.
some, 202.
Eschylus, a saying of, 187, nole.
Alligator, a decent one conjectured to be, in
some sort, humane, 207.
Allsmash, the eternal, 264.
Alphonso the Sixth of Portugal, tyrannical act
of, 208.
Ambrose, Saint, excellent (but rationalistic)
sentiment of, 182.
"American Citizen," new compost so called,
American Eagle, a source of inspiration, 185-
hitherto wrongly classed, 189-long bill of,
ib.
Americans bebrothered, 245.
Amos cited, 182.
Anakin, that they formerly existed, shown,
Angels providentially speak French, 178-con-
jectured to be skilled in all tongues, ib.
Anglo-Saxondom, its idea, what, 178.
Anglo-Saxon mask, 178.
Anglo-Saxon race, 177.
Anglo-Saxon verse, by whom carried to perfec-
tion, 175.
Anthony of Padua, Saint, happy in his hearers,
Antiquaries, Royal Society of Northern, 267.
Antonius, a speech of, 183- by whom best re-
ported, ib.
Apocalypse, beast in, magnetic to theologians,
196.
Apollo, confessed mortal by his own oracle,
196.
Apollyon, his tragedies popular, 194.
Appian, an Alexandrian, not equal to Shake-
speare as an orator, 183.
Applause, popular, the summum bonum, 269.
Ararat, ignorance of foreign tongues is an, 188.
Arcadian background, 203.
Ar c'houskezik, an evil spirit, 254.
Ardennes, Wild Boar of, an ancestor of Rev.
Mr. Wilbur, 236.
Aristocracy, British, their natural sympathies,
Aye-aye, the, an African animal, America sup-
posed to be settled by, 179.
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Balcom, Elder Joash Q., 2d, founds a Baptist
society in Jaalam, A. D. 1830, 287.
Baldwin apples, 208.
Baratarias, real or imaginary, which most plea-
sant, 202.
Barnum, a great natural curiosity recommended
to, 187.
Barrels, an inference from seeing, 208.
Bartlett, Mr., mistaken, 243.
Bâton Rouge, 203 - strange peculiarities of la-
borers at, ib.
Baxter, R., a saying of, 182.
Bay, Mattysqumscot, 207.
Bay State, singular effect produced on military
officers by leaving it, 178.
Beast, in Apocalypse, a loadstone for whom,
196-tenth horn of, applied to recent events,
279.
Beaufort, 266.
Beauregard (real name Toutant), 246, 260.
Beaver Brook, 291.
Beelzebub, his rigadoon, 191.
Behmen, his letters not letters, 195.
Behn, Mrs. Aphra, quoted, 255.
Bellers, a saloon-keeper, 204- inhumanly re-
fuses credit to a presidential candidate, 205.
Belmont. See Woods.
Bentley, his heroic method with Milton, 268.
Bible, not composed for use of colored persons,
257.
Biglow, Ezekiel, his letter to Hon. J. T. Buck-
ingham, 173 never heard of any one named
Mundishes, ib. nearly fourscore years old,
ib. - his Aunt Keziah, a notable saying of, ib.
Biglow, Hosea, Esquire, excited by composi-
tion, 173 - a poem by, ib., 192— his opinion
of war, 174- wanted at home by Nancy, 174
-recommends a forcible enlistment of war-
like editors, ib. - would not wonder, if gen-
erally agreed with, 175 versifies letter of
Mr. Sawin, 176a letter from, 176, 189-
his opinion of Mr. Sawin, 175 - does not deny
fun at Cornwallis, 176, note - his idea of
militia glory, 177, note-a pun of, 177, note
-is uncertain in regard to people of Boston,
ib.—had never heard of Mr. John P. Robin-
son, 179 aliquid sufflaminandus, 180-his
poems attributed to a Mr. Lowell, 181 -
unskilled in Latin, ib.—his poetry maligned
by some, 182- his disinterestedness, ib.
deep share in common-weal, ib. — his claim
to the presidency, ib. - his mowing, ib. re-
sents being called Whig, ib. - opposed to
tariff, ib.
obstinate, ib. infected with pe-
culiar notions, ib. reports a speech, 183–
emulates historians of antiquity, ib. - his
character sketched from a hostile point of
view, 188-a request of his complied with,
191-appointed at a public meeting in Jaa-
lam, 195-confesses ignorance, in one minute
particular, of propriety, ib. - his opinion of
cocked hats, ib. letter to, ib. — called
"Dear Sir," by a general, ib. — probably re-
ceives same compliment from two hundred
and nine, ib.- picks his apples, 208- his
crop of Baldwins conjecturally large, ib. -
his labors in writing autographs, 235— visits
the Judge and has a pleasant time, 243-
born in Middlesex County, 247 - his favorite
walks, ib. his gifted pen, 263-born and
bred in the country, 275-feels his sap start
in spring, 276-is at times unsocial, ib. — the
school-house where he learned his a b c, ib.
falls asleep, 277 - his ancestor a Cromwellian
colonel, ib. finds it harder to make up his
mind as he grows older, 278-wishes he could
write a song or two, 281-liable to moods,
289 loves nature and is loved in return,
290-describes some favorite haunts of his,
290, 291- his slain kindred, 291-his speech
in March meeting, 291 - does not reckon on
being sent to Congress, 293- has no elo-
quence, ib. his own reporter, 294- never
abused the South, ib. — advises Uncle Sam,
ib. is not Boston-mad, 295- bids farewell,
299.
Billings, Dea. Cephas, 176.
Billy, Extra, demagogus, 285.
Bonaparte, N., a usurper, 196.
Bonds, Confederate, their specie basis cutlery,
240 when payable (attention, British stock-
holders!), 264.
Boot-trees, productive, where, 201.
Boston, people of, supposed educated, 177,
note - has a good opinion of itself, 247.
Bowers, Mr. Arphaxad, an ingenious photo-
graphic artist, 268.
Brahmins, navel-contemplating, 194.
Brains, poor substitute for, 248.
Bread-trees, 201.
Bream, their only business, 243.
Brigadier-Generals in militia, devotion of, 183.
Brigadiers, nursing ones, tendency in, to liter-
ary composition, 237.
Brigitta, viridis, 284.
Britannia, her trident, 253.
Brotherhood, subsides after election, 272.
Brown, Mr., engages in an unequal contest,
191.
Browne, Sir T., a pious and wise sentiment of,
cited and commended, 175.
Brutus Four-Corners, 236.
Buchanan, a wise and honest man, 259.
Buckingham, Hon. J. T., editor of the Boston
Courier, letters to, 173, 175, 181, 189-not
afraid, 176.
Buffalo, a plan hatched there, 205-plaster, a
prophecy in regard to, 206.
Buffaloes, herd of, probable influence of tracts
upon, 281.
Bull, John, prophetic allusion to, by Horace,
244-his "Run," 247- his mortgage, 250 —
unfortunate dip of, 265-wool pulled over
his eyes, ib.
Buncombe, in the other world supposed, 183 —
mutual privilege in, 260.
Bung, the eternal, thought to be loose, 174.
Bungtown Fencibles, dinner of, 179.
Burke, Mr., his age of chivalry surpassed, 258.
Burleigh, Lord, quoted for something said in
Latin long before, 255.
Burns, Robert, a Scottish poet, 243.
Bushy Brook, 256.
Butler, Bishop, 263.
Butter in Irish bogs, 201.
C., General, commended for parts, 180-for
ubiquity, ib.-for consistency, ib. - for fidel-
ity, ib. is in favor of war, ib. - his curious
valuation of principle, ib.
Cabbage-heads, the, always in majority, 293.
Birch, virtue of, in instilling certain of the dead Cabinet, English, makes a blunder, 245.
Cæsar, tribute to, 193-his veni, vidi, vici,
censured for undue prolixity, 197.
Cainites, sect of, supposed still extant, 175.
Caleb, a monopoly of his denied, 176-curious
notions of, as to meaning of "shelter," 178
- his definition of Anglo-Saxon, ib. — -charges
Mexicans (not with bayonets but) with im-
proprieties, ib.
Calhoun, Hon. J. C., his cow-bell curfew, light
of the nineteenth century to be extinguished
at sound of, 189- cannot let go apron-string
of the Past, ib.-his unsuccessful tilt at
Spirit of the Age, ib. - the Sir Kay of mod-
ern chivalry, ib.- his anchor made of a
crooked pin, ib. -mentioned, 189–191.
Cambridge Platform, use discovered for, 179.
Canaan in quarterly instalments, 269.
Canary Islands, 201.
Candidate, presidential, letter from, 195-
smells a rat, ib. - against a bank, ib. —takes
a revolving position, 196- opinion of pledges,
ib. is a periwig, ib. -fronts south by north,
ib.-qualifications of, lessening, 197 — wood-
en leg (and head) useful to, 200.
Cape Cod clergymen, what, 179 -
breakers, perhaps, reproved by, ib.
Captains, choice of, important, 294.
Carolina, foolish act of, 294.
Caroline, case of, 245.
Carpini, Father John de Plano, among the Tar-
tars, 208.
Cartier, Jacques, commendable zeal of, 208.
Cass, General, 190-clearness of his merit, ib.
-limited popularity at "Bellers's," 204.
Castles, Spanish, comfortable accommodations
in, 202.
Cato, letters of, so called, suspended naso
adunco, 195.
C. D., friends of, can hear of him, 194.
Century, nineteenth, 259.
Chalk egg, we are proud of incubation of, 194.
Chamberlayne, Doctor, consolatory citation
from, 255.
Chance, an apothegm concerning, 237 — is im-
patient, 279.
Chaplain, a one-horse, stern-wheeled variety of,
Chappelow on Job, a copy of, lost, 192.
Charles I., accident to his neck, 278.
Charles II., his restoration, how brought about,
278.
Colman, Dr. Benjamin, anecdote of, 183.
Colored folks, curious national diversion of kick-
ing, 177.
Colquitt, a remark of, 190-acquainted with
some principles of aerostation, ib.
Columbia, District of, its peculiar climatic ef-
fects, 184 not certain that Martin is for
abolishing it, 205.
Columbiads, the true fifteen-inch ones, 271.
Columbus, a Paul Pry of genius, 194 will per-
haps be remembered, 267-thought by some
to have discovered America, 296.
Columby, 204.
Complete Letter-Writer, fatal gift of, 196.
Compostella, Saint James of, seen, 178.
Compromise system, the, illustrated, 270.
Conciliation, its meaning, 281.
Congress, singular consequence of getting into,
184-a stumbling-block, 260.
Congressional debates found instructive, 188.
Constituents, useful for what, 185.
Constitution trampled on, 189-to stand upon,
what, 195.
Convention, what, 185.
Convention, Springfield, 184.
Coon, old, pleasure in skinning, 190.
Co-operation defined, 258.
Coppers, caste in picking up of, 199.
Copres, a monk, his excellent method of argu-
ing, 188.
Corduroy-road, a novel one, 238.
Corner-stone, patent safety, 260.
Cornwallis, a, 176 — acknowledged entertaining,
ib. note.
Cotton loan, its imaginary nature, 240.
Cotton Mather, summoned as witness, 178.
Country, our, its boundaries more exactly de-
fined, 181 right or wrong, nonsense about,
exposed, ib. lawyers, sent providentially,
ib. - Earth's biggest, gets a soul, 283.
Chief Magistrate, dancing esteemed sinful by, Courier, the Boston, an unsafe print, 188.
Cherubusco, news of, its effects on English roy-
alty, 187.
Chesterfield no letter-writer, 195.
Children naturally speak Hebrew, 175.
China-tree, 201.
Chinese, whether they invented gunpowder be-
fore the Christian era not considered, 179.
Choate hired, 205.
Christ shuffled into Apocrypha, 179- conjec-
tured to disapprove of slaughter and pillage,
180-condemns a certain piece of barbarism,
Christianity, profession of, plebeian, whether,
Christian soldiers, perhaps inconsistent, wheth-
er, 183.
Cicero, 293-an opinion of, disputed, 197.
Cilley, Ensign, author of nefarious sentiment,
179.
Cincinnati, old, law and order party of, 273.
Cincinnatus, a stock character in modern com-
edy, 203.
Civilization, progress of, an alias, 192- rides
upon a powder-cart, 195.
Clergymen, their ill husbandry, 192- their
place in processions, 203 - some, cruelly
banished for the soundness of their lungs,
208.
Clotho, a Grecian lady, 280.
Cocked-hat, advantages of being knocked into,
195.
College of Cardinals, a strange one, 179.
Court, General, farmers sometimes attain seats
in, 203.
Courts of law, English, their orthodoxy, 269.
Cousins, British, our ci-devant, 245.
Cowper, W., his letters commended, 195.
Credit defined, 205.
Creditors all on Lincoln's side, 260.
Creed, a safe kind of, 200.
Crockett, a good rule of, 240.
Cruden, Alexander, his Concordance, 236.
Crusade, first American, 178.
Cuneiform script recommended, 197.
Curiosity distinguishes man from brutes, 194.
Currency, Ethiopian, inconveniences of, 240.
Cynthia, her hide as a means of conversion,
242.
Dædalus first taught men to sit on fences, 256.
Daniel in the lion's den, 239.
Darkies dread freedom, 260.
Davis, Captain Isaac, finds out something to his
advantage, 247.
Davis, Jefferson (a new species of martyr), has
the latest ideas on all subjects, 240-supe
rior in financiering to patriarch Jacob, ib. —
is some, 259- carries Constitution in his hat,
260- knows how to deal with his Congress,
ib. astonished at his own piety, 264-
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