Senate.
"Well I want to know!" Uncle Peabody exclaimed.

"That would make me forgit it if I was goin' to be hung.

Go on and read what it says." I read of the choosing of our friend for the seat made vacant by the resignation of William L.Marcy, who had been elected governor, and the part which most impressed us were these words from a letter of Mr.
Wright to Azariah Flagg of Albany, written when the former was asked to accept the place: "I am too young and too poor for such an elevation.

I have not had the experience in that great theater of politics to qualify me for a place so exalted and responsible.

I prefer therefore the humbler position which I now occupy." "That's his way," said Uncle Peabody.