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GLOSSARY.

Buster, a roistering blade; used also as a general superlative.

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Cal'late, calculate.

Cass, a person with two lives.
Close, clothes.

Cockerel, a young cock.

Cocktail, a kind of drink; also, an ornament peculiar to soldiers. Convention, a place where people are imposed on; a juggler's show. Coons, a cant term, for a now defunct party; derived, perhaps, from the fact of their being commonly up a tree. Cornwallis, a sort of muster in masquerade; supposed to have had its origin soon after the Revolution, and to commemorate the surrender of

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Darsn't, used indiscriminately, either in singular or plural number, for dare not, dares not, and dared not. Deacon off, to give the cue to; derived from a custom, once universal, but now extinct, in our New England Congregational churches. An important part of the office of deacon was to read aloud the hymns given out by the minister, one line at a time, the congregation singing each line as soon as read.

Demmercrat, leadin', one in favor of extending slavery; a free-trade lecturer maintained in the customhouse.

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Abraham (Lincoln), his constitutional
scruples, 282.

Abuse, an, its usefulness, 295.
Adam, eldest son of, respected, 185-
his fall, 301-how if he had bitten a
sweet apple? 304.

Adam, Grandfather, forged will of, 271.
Æneas goes to hell, 214.

Eolus, a seller of money, as is sup-
posed by some, 215.

Aschylus, a saying of, 199, note.
Alligator, a decent one conjectured to
be, in some sort, humane, 220.
Allsmash, the eternal, 286.
Alphonso the Sixth of Portugal, tyran-
nical act of, 221.

Ambrose, Saint, excellent (but ration-
alistic) sentiment of, 193.
"American Citizen," new compost so
called, 215.

American Eagle, a source of inspira-
tion, 196-hitherto wrongly classed,
199-long bill of, ib.
Americans bebrothered, 265.
Amos cited, 193.

Anakim, that they formerly existed,
shown, 221.

Angels providentially speak French,
189-conjectured to be skilled in all
tongues, ib.

Anglo-Saxondom, its idea, what, 188.
Anglo-Saxon mask, 188.
Anglo-Saxon race, 187.

Anglo-Saxon verse, by whom carried to
perfection, 186.

Antiquaries, Royal Society of North-
ern, 289.

Antonius, a speech of, 194-by whom
best reported, ib.

Antony of Padua, Saint, happy in his
hearers, 275.

Apocalypse, beast in, magnetic to theo-
logians, 209.

Apollo, confessed mortal by his own
oracle, 209.

Apollyon, his tragedies popular, 206.
Appian, an Alexandrian, not equal to
Shakespeare as an orator, 194.

Applause, popular, the summum bo-

num, 291.

Ararat, ignorance of foreign tongues
is an, 200.

Arcadian background, 216.

Ar c'houskezik, an evil spirit, 275.
Ardennes, Wild Boar of, an ancestor
of Rev. Mr. Wilbur, 254.
Aristocracy, British, their natural sym-
pathies, 280.
Aristophanes, 192.

Arms, profession of, once esteemed,
especially that of gentlemen, 185.
Arnold, 195.

Ashland, 216.

Astor, Jacob, a rich man, 211.
Astræa, nineteenth century forsaken
by, 215.

Athenians, ancient, an institution of,

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195.

Atherton, Senator, envies the loon, 202.
Atlantic,"
"editors of. See Neptune.
Atropos, a lady skilful with the scis
sors, 304.
Austin, Saint, profane wish of, 195
note-prayer of, 254.
Austrian eagle split, 295.
Aye-Aye, the, an

African animal,
America supposed to be settled by,

190.

B.

B., a Congressman, vide A.
Babel, probably the first Congress, 200
-a gabble-mill, ib.

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