They were sitting together on a bench before a country tavern, in the free converse permitted by our democratic habits.
"I suppose, Senator, that you have become acclimated to this country ?" "Well," said the Vice-President, crossing his legs, pulling his wide-awake down over his forehead, causing a passing chicken to hop quickly one side by the accuracy of his aim, and speaking with senatorial deliberation, "I think I have.

I've been here twenty-five years, and dash, dash my dash to dash, if I haven't entertained twenty-five separate and distinct earthquakes, one a year.

The niggro is the only person who can stand the fever and ague of this region." The convalescence of the engineer was the signal for breaking up quarters at St.Louis, and the young fortune-hunters started up the river in good spirits.

It was only the second time either of them had been upon a Mississippi steamboat, and nearly everything they saw had the charm of novelty.

Col.