THE LOG CABIN,
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Mercy on us who is that female so loud
upon our right! Of a surety, she must be
the original woman who hired the devil to
teach her how to outscold all her neighbors.


Bartholomew Fair.


MY tale is not so much about the log cab
in as its contents, though every one who had
travelled from Alesbury to Burling Ford,
must remember the three-cornered pine-log
hut at the foot ot the Red Ridge, rooted
with loose slabs, with a mud and straw CHM
ney, and a large hole cut out of one side for
the double purpose of door and window.
And if there was not such another Cabin IN
the country, neither was there just such an
other pair as the honest couple who inhab-
tied 1.-THE land on which it stood belong
ed to a distant proprietor. as such lands
were considered "free'', the present tenant,
Peter Keltzer, had put up the dwelling him
self, with such assistance as two quarts OF
whiskey commanded on the raising day, and
lived as one would readily imagine from his
manner of living, entirely unincnmbered
with ground rent.


Peter had scarcely troubled himself to cut
away the bushes that>grew by his door. He
minded neither the grubbing hoe nor the
pruning knife, his only implement of hus-
bandry, if may call it so, was rough bor-
ed rifle, which he kept in admirable order,
and with which he never failed to do excel
lent service, whenever necessity or whim
drove him to scour the forest, and climb the
rugged mountains, or trace up the winding
streams in pursuit of game--and, in truth,
necessity or whim kept the poor man pref
ty constantly on the scout, tor when their
venison was not out, Madame Keltzer's tenn
per always was, and the failure of the one
or the other was An equal misfortune for Pc
ter.


Dame Keltzer was thin, sharp visaged
lady, about five feet two; with black pierc.
ing eye, and but three teeth; the others, a:
Peter affirmed, having been utterly worn
out'of her mouth by the constant concus-
sions of her tongues, which also, were Mret
in number, if his word might pass for value
indeed he gravely asserted that it was ir
consequence Of these remarkable and coin
Gliding anomalies, that the Dame had COM
PEELED him after years fire to build three.