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zee sBch seampern. turned to head come on sm, jet t0 tell what was aTter; b0t seemrd the more

 ried the they tried slrenk C, and in Ices than mnt there warR living cFiier lett but aud the Gineral-and lle GineFal some how had got notion in hs head, and would gone toOs n there want 10 pluck in hun. He elwndtn up with hie back Rgln the mane.ree, and his hickory iu hs hand aud look. ed for all the world Iho' he was jert expecIn slight. Why, sayeI Gneral, what on earth s all this scam perrin for We'll, eays he, Major, reckon you can tell better than can and with that, he blink aI me most plagy--IWd. says he, Major what Is the news now 2 Why, says ], there aint DO1hin new but this ax, and lhrOught it show yOu-Is present to me, says l. from Slarl4s & Co., away up York State, the Black River. The Gineral changed face iO a mni, aud il jist like the Sun rsW He sIep'd up meaad took the ax, .aad walk d his chair aud down and throw'd his head back anG ha haw'd right out. It does'me good, in these times IO the Gin eral ickle any thing. As the Ginera could say any iIing,-says he, Major, call back Tany and Barry and Amos, and haw haw haw, says the Ginera and ji<t then got the notion why they all scamper ed of so-and down right n front Of the Ginera and we haw haw'd tell you, for more than half hour. And so 10 rights, we got talkin agin and the GReral he wiped hts eye, and blew his is for a the world though he had been cryin--and says he Major , aint strange they leee aeard OfyOu for do you. knOw, ist you come in in s0ne eHs was sayin about the pagy Post Ofsce accounts. If they ddn'l git strait rritiy soon, you would git and chop em all up into mlnce-meat--and jisi then ennf in you come, and then haw haw haw, says the Gineral, agin. We'll, says'he, Major, I'm glad that people about begDniD lO look y0U pretty much as do. knew, says he, tue lime would come when they would say knew what was what when got you to be with me; and now says he. Major let's loOk

 this ax, and the Gineral he rubbd his specks-w ell says hr, this is a splitter amt i,why, says he, ia man only got lahered he could shave himself without n barher, for this bright ROolingg lass, and sharp a razor; and here is the makers name too : " Siarks & Co. Carthage, New-York." do wonder nuw, says the Ginera if that an the same Siark'' who lick I'd the British at Bennington spell ago? .sI ant certin," says l. Well nor I noiher," says the Gnera, for do you know Major have beenin SD ,na- ny wars myself, that some times mix up, and have now gnt much to aiteu nd to here, that aM bOtherd about names and places and times most pia- gy. Now there is onr e district at,nrney, our folks iell'd ae when aplmnted him a Bank Director that he was the kind of maT wanted " to ride Bid die" and upset him-and when they tel'd oE.sriddn, !" "Upsetin, and mentioned his name, got notion im my head that cant get Out yet, that he lRAy be the same man Eve heard tell on, who took ride once, and then wrote long account oft in poetry. Well, saysI Pm not cerlin Uf that noher-ul Pve got ,on the man you meaa was John GiIpin. 'That'sthe came man, ant it. says the Gineral. No, gays l. guess il nini, for he lived n London. 70, that makes DO odds says the Gneral, for they used to call Phi ade phia the London of America Well, says |, then il must be the same-and if he's got the squire Co ride him, guess il will turn pretty much such other rde-fr, says the squire pretty good horse for tight pullbn don't think he'd stand easy under n eaddle--ii ant the naur of that breed.

 Well Major, says the Ginera. must thank those folks for the any how, and the Senate pass upon that message we semt em toiher ay about other presents. you have the ax Very welt says l.

 GWerai, aud if Congress d"nt pass upon something ese says to git things leeile better in the money way, l want that ax, for shall all come to ] chotpn agin for Iivin.'

 ] want yon to send printed copy of this letter % the makers of that axe, and when you git all my ie- iers |" you printed in book seud ofthe books ~ th my thanks, for the ax.

 Your friend J. DOWNING, Major, Downingville Militia--2d brigade.