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 TAKING MAN AT HIS WORD. "A friend of ours in travelling through New Hamp- shire, few days since, siopt for the night at the Stage Hotel in celebrated village. He retired to bed early, but could get no sleep till near daylight, in consequence of the noise made by the arrival and departure of.he stages. When the last stage left, he turned himself over in bed and prepared for comfortable snoozes but just as old Nor pheus had seized hold of him, his ears were sauted blythe believing of COW directly under his window, and to use his own ex- pression, 1t sounded like noise made by ten thousand deyils." Finding there was no such thlng as sleep, he arose, and on looking out of the window discovered the object of his wrath, and perceiving a man near by, he said to him, Do for heavens sake kill that COW, and bringme the bill in the morning, and will pay it.o The man took him at his word, and killed the animal On descending to breakfast the first person our friend met was the cow- killer with the bill !-E Eosterf paper.