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GETTING PLACE AT THE FIRE.-Every body
has read the anecdote of DR.. Franklin, who,
when travelling upon "raw and gusty day,
stopped at tavern, and found the fire entirely
pre-occuped by set of village loafers, who
would not bulge an inch in the way Of civility
to stranger. .-,.s., ,i......


He called for peck of oysters for his horse;
and while the unmannery cubs all went to
the stable to witness the novel spectacle of a
horse eating oysters, the Doctor selected a
comfortable place at the fire, "to roast his
oysters, and to warm himself" Ofcourse the
horse didn't eat the oysters, but the Doctor
did. .% ~u .."


About as good story is told in the Spirit
of the Times, of recruiting captain in the
recruiting service at the west, who went into
a grocery where were a lot of loungers, and
no one offered him seat. knowing every
thing about the grocery, he went behind the
counter and seizing keg marked powder,
threw it upon the fire, exclaiming-


"Gentlemen, it's my opinion that we've
lived long enough" a.g


The way they ran out of the store was
caution to "ground and lofty tumbling." Of
course the keg was empty. n.g