It is a residence admirably adapted to refined families who relish the beauties of Nature and the charms of society.

The Honorable John Smith, formerly a member of the State Senate, was a native of this town." That is the way they all talk.

After all, it is probably pretty much like other inland New England towns in point of "salubrity,"-- that is, gives people their choice of dysentery or fever every autumn, with a season-ticket for consumption, good all the year round.

And so of the other pretences.

"Pigwacket audience," forsooth! Was there ever an audience anywhere, though there wasn't a pair of eyes in it brighter than pickled oysters, that did n't think it was "distinguished for intelligence"?
--"The preached word"! That means the Rev.Jabez Grubb's sermons.