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 Afraid of ths Bilers.- During the height of the opposition between the two steamboat lines running from the Kennebec to Boston, last summer. and just ss the rival boais were making ready to start, wagon hove in sight in which was an old lady, with an accom- paniment of bank boxes and bundles, evident ly equipped for a journey. The respective agents of lhe two lines sPrang towards her, s.Take the Marshall, mar,n i-- fine boat. ."-- ssTry the Penobseot, ncw boat, built last summer, commanded by the favorite of every body, Capt - Sc. The boys aud ioafrrs around echoed the claims Of iheir favoriie in concert. .'Hurrab for the Penobscof'' .sGo to the John Marshall" The old lady, who hal probably never seen steamboat before, and whose chief notion nf the varments was connected with their boiier-burstinx aronen- sities, was almost beside herself with terror, at the hub-hub.

 so. Lo,dy, [ wish I'd ne-er stirred ste2 if I'd a known there was to be such an aw- ful time as this, i'm sure wouldat. The Pesky baets--i know iheyu burst every body's looking afier me aad nobody's ai- tending io lem. There, ge right away, ail of you, I'm going straight back couldn't rest wink for fear of them pesky oilers"

 '.Y ou need give yourself so anxiety oa &C., count ef the boilers ,a the Marshsll,'' sad the agent of the M.. ..they are Hev ssa sesad and couldn't be raade to bnrss s

 s1Are you sure Of asn said the cid tady. evincsag symptoms of fayessbie tllspossa,ea towards the Marshsll---Ayoa sin', tsyia' so psaesize oa the csedslisy of poos lose wo- man, hopesn

 @Eo fear of me---soand as q seak essls, ,'' was the reply.

 The old lady wss sbou, desceEd,ag from the wsgoa. so embark m the Masshell, when No. 2 stepped uP.

 s.alsdsap-v ssid he m sssious tone, mo doabs she Mssshall's boilers are gsod enough, tut she bsss boilers sse dsagsroas things We knew that great rnsny people had been killed by shem-sspscially of lass--aad teok fAe 1oaisrs ost ef ev kasf aArse ssasks aesf''

 '1You dsd." said she, sshas's the boat fos me. then. Jemes f'o shs bsy n shs wsgas