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the hovel was furnished with a couple of blocks for seats, an iron kettle and a bed of straw and rags; while some halffinished, gayly-colored baskets lay about, indicating how the mistress of the house earned at least a portion of her living. Drawing the bottle from his pocket, Noyse said: "Morning, Santy. I have the wherewithal to warm you, in this frosty weather."

The savage creature's black eyes sparkled, and she took the bottle from his outstretched hand with an indescribable eagerness. Picking up a wooden cup which lay on the floor, she halffilled it, and swallowed the contents at a few ravenous gulps. "Tankey, elder," she said, "very good rum."

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Keep the bottle,” replied Noyse, "it will cheer you up. Poor creature, you are thirsty. I will bring you some more rum when that is gone."

The squaw expressed her thanks in a gibberish, half English, half Indian; and declared that she would serve him to the death, no matter what he desired. He waited until she was clearly under the influence of the liquor, when he introduced the subject of witchcraft, and inquired about her woeful sufferings from the white man's devil. Santy was ready to bemoan herself, and to agree with her charitable visitor in any view of the subject that he chose to offer. Taking an encouraging draught from the flask, he proceeded to tell her of the commitment that had been issued against Rachel Stanton; and he went on clearer and bolder, until the halfdrunken but still cunning vagabond saw that he was anxious for witnesses against the new victim. She was prepared for him; she burst forth immedi

ately with her grievances; she had suffered night and day, for a month, from this Rachel: she was ready to swear to it any day, before any court of justice. What a wonderful cunning he showed in his replies. How dexterously he guided her to a plausible tale by his leading questions. How carefully he avoided committing himself, so that his infamous accomplice could ever accuse him. And when, at last, she had stated all that was necessary for his purpose, with what audacity he told her that she must never recede from these confessions, or he would have her hanged as a denier of the truth, and a fellow-worker with sorcerers. The man actually seemed to be inspired for evil. He had a facility and adroitness which astonished even himself. When he left the cabin, they perfectly understood each other, and Santy knew her part and her reward.

Not half an hour after Noyse reëntered his house, Sheriff Herrick knocked at the door of Good-wife Stanton. We will not go in with him. We have witnessed, and shall yet witness, enough of painful scenes, without being present at this. Let us hurry as lightly as possible over the plagues that remain, possessing our souls in patience in view of the deliverance at the end. I must once more beg the reader, however, not to be surprised at the number of hateful people who appear in this narrative. Such a storm as agitated the community of Salem, would necessarily bring the mud and lees of society to the surface; and even those who were generally pure now showed colors more foul than at any other time would have been thought possible of them.

JUNE.

THROW open wide your golden gates,
O, poet-lauded month of June,

And waft me, on your spicy breath,
The melody of birds in tune.

O, fairest palace of the three,

Wherein Queen Summer holdeth sway,

I gaze upon your leafy courts

From out the vestibule of May.

I fain would tread your garden walks,

Or in your shady bowers recline

Then open wide your golden gates,

And make them mine, and make them mine.

COLLEGE LIFE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

IT may, perhaps, amuse the collegestudents of the present day, and the fathers, too, who foot the bills at vacation, to know something of how this business of going to college was managed a century ago. For their amusement, in good faith, and with no austere design to create invidious comparisons between the bald and niggard simplicity of those far-off times and the elegances with which parental indulgence and princely wealth have enabled the young students of our time to embellish the journey of Parnassus, we propose to lay before them some portion of the contents of a small manuscript that has fallen to us. In short, we meditate a review of an unpublished work, the title of which has never yet been settled; for the author, unsuspicious of the honorable notice at which it has, after more than twenty lustrums of obscurity, attained, erased from it the name of "Diary," and inserted no other in its place to follow his own Christian and surname left to indicate himself as the proprietor of the volume.

As we have no precedents at hand for reviewers spending much money of their publishers, or time of their readers, or headwork of their own, in settling titles upon books which authors have left destitute of them, we shall, omitting to name our book, proceed to give some account of its contents and of its author.

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This gentleman was born in May, 1732, at Waltham near Boston, and his name is consequently found written at length in Dr. Boyd's Family memorials." It appears also in the lists of several of the continental congresses, and in the first six congresses under the Constitution. In short, it may be found written and printed in so many honorable categories, and attended with such honorable mention in historical articles and so forth, that it will be sufficient here to know it by its initials only, "S. L."

His birth having taken place at so remote a period as 1732, we may, in conformity with the notions which then prevailed, and by throwing ourselves and readers back into that distant era, evading any prejudices that may now exist against the use of adjectives denoting quality applied to that event in man's

existence, permit ourselves to say that it was a good birth. That is, it was caused or originated by a lino of respectable ancestry seated in the place of his nativity, enjoying competence at home and consideration in the vicinity. His father was a grave and respected magistrate by the commission of a royal governor, and what still more decidedly bespoke the confidence and esteem of his contemporaries, a colonel in the Massachusetts militia. These facts all appear, or most of them, in the little book, and are confirmed in the larger work of Dr. Boyd. His home is now, and has long been, the very elegant residence and valuable estate of one of the richest families of Boston.

In the year 1751, it seemed fit in the eyes of this worthy gentleman that his son should proceed to college, and preparations are made for his departure. Why he did not go to Cambridge, which was within four miles of his father's house, fully appears in our book, but need not here be stated. He is bound to the distant seat of Nassau Hall in Newark, N. J. For a young gentleman of his rank to present himself among strangers, so far from his home, without evidence of the consideration in which he is held by his neighbors, and with no claim to favorable reception at the college, but the examination and the fee he tips at his entrance, was not to be thought of. The reverend clergy, honorable magistrates, merchants in credit with correspondents at New York, each in his way, came forward with credentials that were to place the son of their honored neighbor upon the clearest footing as regarded character and credit.

Of one of these letters of recommendation we shall make an extract. It is to his Excellency Jonathan Belcher, formerly governor of Massachusetts, and now of New Jersey:

"May it please your Excellency:

"Sir,-After due salutations, and wishing you health, and prosperity, and a peaceful government, these are to request you to accept the bearer's humble desires of your regard.

"Your Excellency will excuse this freedom, when I assure you, sir, I have still a sense of the peculiar regards shown me in the little acquaintance I had with you before you left

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"Rev., Hon., and respected sir.

"The bearer, Mr. [S. L.], engages me, however unworthy, to address you on his behalf. He waits on you for admission into your society, and when you shall think he merits it, for ye honors of your college.

As he has lived with and near me, and taught in the town's school for upwards of a year past, to universal acceptance and edification of our children, as an overseer of said school, and as a friend engaged by his merits, I can't refuse granting his request of recom. mending him to your nearest esteem.

"As I doubt not his learning and piety will soon convince all acquainted with him of his just deserts, if God shall increase those graces, which seem fast-rooted in his breast, I shall say no more of his merit, being cailed suddenly to this task in great haste.

"As I think, sir, you may safely depend on his veracity, I shall leave him to give you a narrative of the particular reasons for travelling so far for those honours wh. some per sons might think should be conferred nearer home."

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The above computation is in the cur rency called old tenor, at £2 5s. to the dollar. And as, in the extensive journeys through which we shall follow our student from Boston, in Massachusetts, through the provinces of Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey, or parts of them, we shall find him computing in various currencies, it may be as well here, and once for all, to remind the reader that the value of the dollar was as follows:

New England currency.
Light or Newark.
Proclamation.
New York.
Old Tenor

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Thus we find that his rum was about 16 cents a quart; butter 83 cents a pound; teu about a dollar; his fowls a little more than a dollar a dozen; and the total of his outfit for the VOYAGR something short of $4.

We hope that our readers will refer to the letters of introduction, and consider the high promise and purposes of the party undertaking the voyage, and refrain from any reflections upon the disproportion of the first article in the inventory to some of the others. It certainly reminds one of the bills found in Falstaff's pockets.

The journal proceeds:

Sept. 5, 1751. Put on board ye sloop Lydia, Capt. J. Van Wagener, master, viz.: a chest in w'c: Two close coats, 1 great coat, 2 jackets, 13 shirts, 7 pair of stockings, 6 caps, 4 cravats, 3 handkerchiefs, 1 pr. breeches.

Books, viz.: Bible, Latin and Greek Testaments and Grammars, Latin Dictionary and Lexicon, Ward's Introduction to Mathematics, Gordon's Geography, Virgil, Tully.

A voyage so long as from Boston to New York, could not, of course, be made without touching at an intermediate point; and we find a memorandum of expenses at Newport, where the

On these heads we copy from the young scholar supplied himself with a book:

Sept. 6, 1751. Possessed of 5 dollars, one moydor, 3 guineas.

Sept. 10. Laid in for the voyage to New York, viz.:

penknife, a corkscrew and a bucklebrush at a cost of £25, 0. T.

But the long voyage had an end at last, so that he was able to pay the captain £1 8s.. on the 24th day of Sep

tember, 1751, in full for his passage, as appears by Capt. Jacob Van Wagener's receipt of that date. This must have been York money, and amounted to $3 50, as appears by an entry in these words: "York money, dollar 8s." It is easy for a young student to imagine what impulses moved the heart of this young gentleman on finding himself in the city of New York. The memorandum proceeds:

12 yards best Rassell a 4s. 6d. £2 14 0 2 Duke of Cumberland handk'fs 54

[The field of Culloden that gave the name to these elegant articles of dress, did it ensanguine them, also, with the hues of battle ?]

8 yards plaid a 5s. 6d.

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£2 4 0 3 pairs worsted stockings a 108. 1 10 0 Paid Mr. Barns for entertainment, viz., 1 day. 4 10 0 Equal to 60 cents. Who will show us the "St. Nicholas," or Metropolitan," of 1751, that fobbed that reckoning? Its attractions could not divert our Telemachus, or detain him beyond a single day from his purpose, and he proceeded on the 24th, at an expense of 183 cents, to Newark, leaving, however, with Mr. Ennis Graham, the materials to be made into a gown. For this he afterwards sends, with 5s. 6d. York, by Clintock, his chum.

Also paid Dr. Turner for 5 days' board, the washing of 5 shirts,

and bringing up my chest, etc. £0 5 0 A pair of snuffers. 010

Oct. 3. A gallon West Ind. Rum. 050

[5 quarts gone since the 10th of September.]

How he spends money at college, on dress, etc.

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These articles in York currency, £5 11 3

It may not be necessary to copy more of this part of the book in course, but we shall make a selection of various items of what seems to us of most significance.

And what Jersey-man will not read with pride, in the first that follows, the evidence of the antiquity of a branch of industry that now reflects honor upon his state from all parts of the country!

March, 24. To E. Crane, for a bar-
rel of cyder.

Horse and chair to the Falls.
I. Sheppen, 40s. York, toward the
bottles.

For mending my button.

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This last article puzzled us for a moment, and in sadness we were on the verge of renouncing our omniscience as a reviewer. What button, in the name of all that is ancient, was that which, being capable of being mended at all, could have required for its repair, in labor and materials, the sum of eleven and a half cents?-a sum which, to judge from the price of fowls at $1 10 per dozen, or butter at 83 cents a pound, would have purchased, at least, three times as much as the same sum would purchase to-day. Was it a single button omnipotent to confine the waistband of those breeches which he brought from Boston? Did it figure as an auxiliary to those "garters," which he bought for a gown-string? Was it a stud of gold or silver, doing alone the duty of the three required on the plaited bosoms of the moderns? Thus each article of ancient wear was called, when, at "BUTTON-MAKER, RISE," a

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TAKING LEAVE OF THE COLLEGE.

A small item for wine, with several for limes, sugar, and rum, about the same period, enable us to understand that the pains of leave-taking might have been assuaged by convivial sentiment, and that festivity derives a charm from sorrow, while it lightens its burden. The songs which that wine inspired were not the mad chants of Bacchanalism, but the wasting perfume of flowers. The flowers fade, indeed, and youth, with its peculiar pleasures, passes away; but not without hope, and leaving the heart to ripen.

The "chest" is placed on board a craft, whose name is not preserved to us; but, we trust, a good craft, that safely discharged its freight of gowns, breeches, jackets, and "Duke-of-Cumberlands," to become, in time, the admiration and envy of the belles and beaux of the remote province of Mas

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HIS JOURNEY HOME.

The bachelor of all arts, by the diploma of Nassau Hall, was, by his own achievement, a master of the important and gentle science of the horse; which, with a genuine prowess, he reduces to practice on this occasion.

Let us trace him, with the aid of his journal. His fine face-for his portrait still exists-shaded by the hat he has bought for the handsome sum of £2 1s. 2d. the mending of the button of which cost him a shilling; his full breast, throwing forward to the air and light the ample jacket or waistcoat that cost him £3 6s. 1d. What were its colors or materials? We know its liberal form and pockets descending to the hips. Was it plush of scarlet, velvet, corduroy; or what texture of long-forgotten name, and of manufacture among the lost arts?

His horse carries him the first day to Harvard, where the night is spent. On the next, he proceeds through Bolton and Lebanon, to Leapenwell's, in Norwich, where he sleeps again. Thence, by Volentown and Scituate, to Angell's, in Providence; where, after a ride of fifty miles in the saddle, let us hope he had refreshing cheer. Thence, by Attleborough, Wrentham, and Dedham, where, for some cause, he prefers Gay's inn to Ames'-he did not know of whom that Ames was to be the ancestor he arrived, after another ride of fifty miles, at his father's house in Waltham.

Of the expenses of this journey we are not informed; but, fourteen years later, he performed nearly the same route, on horseback likewise, when he expended about $1 50 per day. On this last occasion, his practice was to ride about fifty miles a day, stopping three times between morning and night, for purposes requiring the outlay of from sixpence to two shillings lawful, or 8 cents to 33 cents, at each time of dismounting. He expended, upon his journey home from college, probably, from four to five dollars, in the four days he was upon the road.

Without assuming to be perfectly accurate, we may, upon the authority of the little book we have examined, conclude that our young gentleman left home with about twenty-five dollars

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