oli. 4 6 q0 mAheadV9 NoA-i Davy Crockett's' 18 ALMANACK, 38 OF WILD SPORTS IN THE WEST, Eiife in the Backwoods, Sketches of Texas, «ptff Rows on the Jtlississippi.. Nashville, Tennessee. Published by the heirs of Col. Crockett. £5 Eclipses ot' the Sun and IHoon» j In the year 1838 there will be two eclipses of the Sun, and |two of the Moon. ;1. A total eclipse of the Sun, on the 25th of March, invisible 2. A partial eclipse of theJMoon, April 9th, visible. Evening. If. M. First contact with Penumbra, at 6 26 First cwntact'with Dark Shadow, 7 48 ( t,mp Middle of eclipse « |f f", Bos,o„. Last contact with Dark Shadow, 10 41 I Last contact with Penumbra, 12 2 j An annular eclipse of the Sun, September 18. Beginning, 3 26 Greatest obscuration, 4 49 I End, 5 56 | Digits eclipsed 10° 52' on Sun's south limb. !4. A partial eclipse of the Moon, October 3, invisible. Chronological Cycles. jGolden Number, 15 | E pact, 4 jSolar Cycle, 27 Dominical Letter, G. Roman Indiction, 11 Julian Period, 6551 { €*o Ahead Reader. j I was horn in a cane brake, cradled in a sap trough, and jelouted with coon skins; without being choked by the weeds of education, which do not grow spontinaciously—for all the time that I was troubled with youngness, my cornsteaiers were] nu'trally used for other purposes than holding a pen ; and rayly when I try to write my elbow keeps coming round like aj swingle-tree, awd it is easier for me to tree a varmint, or svval-| jlow a nigger, than to write. Some persons tickle up their fancies to the scribbling point, and then their pen goes like a fiddler's elbow. Of books the divil a one have I read, except Tom Toe and The Axes of the Apostles. And although my I dears run through me like an hour glass that never wants turning, if I only know'd how to scrawl the alphabet, I'd soon row some of the lamed ones up Salt River—for j Honor and fame from no condition rise; Axe well your part and down the tree soon lies. jFor it's the grit of a fellow that makes the man; and I'm hal Ichicken hawk and steel-trap. So I will just let you know,j jreader, what I think about gineral matters and things in par-j titular. I Explanatory Preface. 3 The great popularity of Col. Crockett throughout the United iStates, was evinced by the intense interest with which the ac¬ counts of his adventures and death were perused; and the grief which pervaded all classes, on hearing of his heroic fate, showed at once the estimation in which he was held. In addition to the matter left by the. Colonel, we have intro¬ duced one or two anecdotes of hitn, received since his decease. The succeeding almanacs will contain reading of great interest from 1ms pen, and there will bo fine after the present one. They will be published until 1843. His posthumous papers contain a great number of Wild Frolics and scrapes, together' with adventurous exploits in the chase, both those in which he was engaged himself, and others that came within his knowl¬ edge. The engravings are mostly taken from his drawings, which are very spirited. He drew on birch bark with a burnt stick. Never hold your Head too high. One day a little bantam-cock, with a high top-knot was ex¬ ceedingly vain, because he had so many feathers on his legs that he could hardly walk. Seeing a goose duck her head in passing under a bar at least six feet high, he thus accosted her. "Why, thou miserable, bare-legged caitiff! thou shovel-nosed, web-footed, pigeon-toed scavenger of the highways ! thou fool of three elements! not content, with ignominiously crawling under a fence, thou must even nod thy empty pate by way of confessing thy inferiority. Behold how we bantams do these a things ! " .So saying, with a deal of puffing and fluttering, with I the help of his bill, he managed to gain the top of the fence, 1 where he claprt his. wings, and was just on the point of crowing 8 in triumph, when a great hawk that was sailing over his head I pounced down upon him, and seizing him by the top-knot, car- J ried him off without ceremony. The goose cocking her eye, | " and taking a side view of the affair, significantly shook her feathers, and the next time she passed under the bar, bowed her head lower than ever. " The fellow who could basely desert, and after deserting, ibasely attempt to expose,_nn artless and confiding female, de¬ serves to be nibbled to death by young tadpoles, in a stagnant frog pond, in the presence of his mistress, without the benefit, of clergy, or consolation of friends. (Amen.) OSfl KaintHCk. " No, stronger ! there's no place on the universal 'arth like (Old Kaintuck; she whips all ' out west' in prettiness: and you might bile down creation and not get such another State) [out of it." ' j. |.f A Harrow Escape of a Woman from a j Fan?her in Texas. ;j I In the northern parts of Texas, panthers and wild catsj Ijabound in considerable numbers. A woman having been toi :visit a neighbor several miles from home, set out to return ear-| [ly in the afternoon, and after riding- for a few miles over tliej bpen prairies, she struck into a burr oak opening; this being; jthe first one she had ever seen, she rode around to admire its; novel beauty, as it looked more like a pear orchard than any] ithing she had seen, the trees being somewhat of the shape andj ■size of full grown pear trees, and standing at regular intervals] 'apart, from each other on the firm level soil, as if planted by! isonie gardener. Here too were flocks of deer grazing. Shej Jrode for some time amongst the opening, and then entered .the f'dense forest, through which the road lay. She soon heard a! .'cry like that of the human voice some distance off 011 the right.j listening and hearing it repeated, until she was satisfied that] isome person was near, she answered it, and the call was re-] pealed tuo or three times, until she heard a crackling in thej hushes, and looking aside she saw a panther up on the trunk ofl ia tree. He had-sprung up to reconnoitre. She instantly put] ]her horse to the'top of his speed, when the animal sprang down and chased. For some time the horse appeared to gain on the! monster, which came howling after them, and made the poor] horse snort with terror. Although frightened, she had pres-j erice of mind to guide the animal; and being near home, shej hoped to rea'ch it before the panther overtook her. But in this1 jshe was disappointed, for he now gained rapidly on them—, Isoon came up, and jumped up behind, when lie began laeera-1 jtingand biting her neck and shoulders with his teeth and claws.' SjShe was now luckily near home. And her sister and daughter! hearing her screams, ran out to meet her, one armed with a' {rifle and pistol, the other with a rifle. Upon her approach,' jher sister, a large masculine woman, fired at the monster, and' !put a hall through his head ; but such is the abstract ferocity! |of these animals that he did not let go his hold, until her dangh-j ter had put a rifle ball through him, and her sister shot him in! |the head with her pistol, when he relinquished his hold and fell: jto the ground, where he yelled and rolled about till a man fin-] jished him with an axe. The poor woman fainted and fell from loss of blood. She was borne into the house, and her wounds jwcre carefully dressed ; but it was several months before she! jwas able to attend to her ordinary occupation. j j Col. CroekfU's IMrcctioia. ! j " Well," said he, " how will I find where you live 1" " Why, {sir, run down the Mississippi till you come to the Obion river, irun a small streak up that, jump ashore anywhere, and inquire. !for me." ' I® A Tennessee Rifleman at the Rattle of | Hew Orleans. A daring Tennessean, with a blanket tied round him, and a (bat with a brim of enormous breadth, who seemed to be fight- ling "on his own hook," disdaining to raise his rifle over the jeotton bags and fire, in safety to his person, like his more wary tfellow soldiers, chose to spring, every time he fired, upon the! jbreast,'where balancing himself, he would bring his rifle to his] Icheek, throw back his broad brim, take sight and fire, while] (the enemy were advancing to the attack, as deliberately asj [though shooting at a herd of deer; then leaping down on the [inner side, he would reload, mount the works, cock his beaver,; [take aim, and crack again. ",This he did," said an English [officer who was taken prisoner by him, and who laughingly re¬ lated it ao a good anecdote to General Jackson—"five times in rapid succession, as I advanced at the head of my company, and though the grape whistled through the air over my head,' I could not for the life of me help smiling at his grotesque demi-savagc, demi-quaker figure, as he threw back the broad [flap of his castor to obtain a fair sight—deliberately raised his rifle—shut his left eye and blazed away at us. I verily believe he brought down one of my men at every shot." As the Brit-, E ish resolutely advanced, though columns fell like the tall grain before the sickle at the fire of the Americans, this same officer approached at the head of his brave grenadiers, amid the roll¬ ing fire of musketry from the lines of his unseen foes, undaun¬ ted and untouched. " Advance, my men ! " he shouted as he reaehed the edge of the fosse—" follow me ! " and sword inl band he leaped the ditch, and turning amidst the roar and flame] of a hundred muskets to encourage his men, behela to his sur- £ prise bat a single man of his company on his feet—more than fifty brave fellows, whom he had so gallantly led on to the at¬ tack, had been shot down. As he was about to leap back from[ ibis dangerous situation, his sword was shivered in his grasp by ja rifle ball, and at the same instant the daring Tennessean sprang upon the parapet and leveled his deadly weapon at his breast, calmly observing, " Surrender, stranger, or I may per¬ forate ye." "Chagrined," said the officer, at the close of his recital, " I was compelled to deliver to the bold fellow my mu- I tilated sword, and pass over into the American lines." A Hard Head. An old gentleman was relating a story of one of your "half 'horse, half alligator " St. Lawrence boatmen. Says he, " he< [is a hard head, for he stood under an oak tree in a thunder; !storm, when the lightning struck the tree, and he dodged it! [several times, when finding he could not dodge it any longer,! jhe st'ood and took nine claps in succession on his head and] jnexerilinched." r 7 A. Yankee Squirrel Hunt. Did I ever tell you 'bout my gunning, with cousin Nebuch-1 adnezzer, last fall 1 No! Well, then, you must know Neb and I went arter squirrels. Guess as how we had been gone a long spell 'fore we found any game. At last I saw a squir¬ rel, and says I, Neb, there's a red fellow up that tree; where 1 says he; there, says I, don't you see it on the limb a little to the east 1 Yes, I see it now, says he ; fine chap, isn't it 1 says* I; sartin, says he, Now you stand still, says he, and don't make a noise, while I go round and have a crack at it. But afore he got his gun up, the squirrel was gone, and where he went it beat all natur. Now, says I, I reeon as how we are 'bout as well off' now as 'fore we started. Well, guess we hadn't gone more than quarter of a mile, 'fore I saw another t and says I, Neb, there's another one running along there— and the way it went up a tree taint no matter. Where T says ,he ; there, says I; I see it now, says he. And the way be cut .arter it there was no mistake—mind, I tell you now, there's no two ways about that. Well, then, Neb soon got out of my sight—I kept on pretty much in the direction he took, and guess it wa'nt long 'fore 1 heard the gun go off". When I got up to him, says I, Neb, did you hit it 1 Sartain, says he, guess as how I did. Well then, says I, where is it ? On that limb, says he. I looked up and there I saw the squirrel, holdin on the fork of a limb, and says I, it is fast there, isn't it ? No, says he, it will loose its hold 'fore long and fall. ' Well I swan, Neb had hardly got the words out 'fore down it come ; it made one jump 'bout ten feet, and then measured its length on the ground. I picked it up,- and says I, Neb, it's a fine fellow; well, sayrs he, I shouldn't wonder if it was. Bv this time the sun had just taken his leave of us, and Neb said we had better be getting towards home. You must know we had to d?ross a creek in goin home; well, it wasn't long 'fore we come to it. Neb got over it safe and sound; hut when I had got jbout half| 8 'Fearful Incident. way across, the log kind o' turned, and I went chewallop into the water; Neb pulled me out, and I swan if ever I went huntin arter that. A. Fearful Incident at the Cumberland Gap, in Western Virginia. \t the Cumberland Gap, in Western Virginia, a thrilling /incident happened in 1834. There is a cavernous recess about (midway in the face of the precipice, whose height is estimated at more than three hundred feet; and some bold adventurer! determined to be let down to explore this fissure. He easily, found some of his acquaintance who Consented to assist in the experiment; and standing on the edge of the chasm, they be-, gan to lower him down by a rope attached to his body. After- descending some forty or fifty feet, our adventurer discovered (that the gide of the precipice shelved so much inwardly, that it was impossible for him to touch the wall even at so short a (distance from the top. It was necessary then to provide some pointed instrument, by which he could hold on to the face of the cliff as he descended. He was accordingly pulled up once' more, and then after providing himself with a " gig," or long spear, much used in the adjacent rivers, he started anew upon his perilous voyage. The gig appeared to answer its purpose extremely well, though the task of thrusting it from time to time in the crevices of the rock, as the cord was gradually slacked from above, was both tiresome and exhausting. The point proposed was just attained, and the patient adventurer was about to reap the reward of his toil, and plant his foot in the fissure, when his companions shouted from above, that their coil of rope had run out. It was too provoking to be thus a second time disappointed, when his object seemed almost with¬ in his grasp, and but a few yards more of cord would have en¬ abled him to complete his object. He had given too much| trouble, and encountered too much peril, now to abandon his[ design completely. Thus reasoned the bold cragsman, as! clinging like a bat to the wall, he hung midway between heaven[ and earth; and determined not to give up the point, he shout-f ed to his comrades to splice on a grape vine to the end of the! rope ! The substitute was easily procured, and being quickly! attached, more line was at once played out from above. He had npw descended so far that the shelving precipice projected, far over his head, almost like the flat ceiling of a chamber; but still his fishing spear enabled him to keep ol^se to the face of the rock, and practise now taught him to handle it with dex¬ terity and confidence. He is at last opposite to the cavernous openifig he would explore, and without waiting to measure its depth, he balances himself against a jutting point of rock with one hancj) while the other strikes his spear at a crevice in the g*> Instinct of a Weaver. isides of the deep recefss before burn The spear falls short; Ithe adventurer is at once detached from the face of the clitf to which he had been so carefully adhering; and the great angle at which the rope that sustains him has been drawn, sends him swinging lide a pendulum over the frightful gulf- The grape¬ vine—so strong and secure as long as there is a perpendicular pull upon it—now cracks and spHts as if its fibres could not bear the strain ; while the weight at the end of it spins round in the air, and the frayed bark falls in strips upon the alarmed cragsman, as he watches it grate off upon the ed^e of the precipice above him. He maintains his self-possession, how¬ ever, while his companions pull carefully and steadily upon the fragile cable, lie soon sees the knot at which the rope is tied to it in their hands, and a shout of triumph hails his ap¬ proach to the top, where he is at last safely landed ; with his curiosity perfectly satisfied. Instinct of a Weaver. Beavers once abounded on the Ottawa river in Canada; but jby the rapacity of the fur dealers, they are driven farther into [the wilds. An old pensioner u ho is now living, and who had fought by the side cf Wolfe, had a young one as a pet. Christ¬ mas came round, and the old soldier, putting his wife into a sleigh, drove bff to his friend, leaving in the house his beaver, with a supply of water and branches of trees for its subsistence. After a week's social communing he returned to his lonely dwelling, but to his surprise the door resisted all his efforts to open it; he entered by a window, and found that his pet had not been idle during his absence, but that its faculty of con- struetiveness had (irresistibly) developed itself. There being a tall Dutch oven in the room, built of brick and tempered clay, on this the beavtr had operated, had softened the clay in his tub of water/had gnawed off the legs of the tables and chairs, and mixing all up with bricks, old moccasins, and other odds and ends, JiaiJ effectually barred the door against all in¬ truders. Crockett and Santa Anna. j It is a fact \fcell authenticated in Texas, that when Gen. jSanta Anna was surveying the Alamo, for the purpose of in¬ forming himself of the best method of arranging an attack, he made so good a shot at him as to come near taking his life, which so enraged the General, that he resolved to storm the fort the next day, and he kept his resolution. j A Sentiment. The enemies of our country.—May they have sore eyes, and |a chesnut burr for an eye stone. 1st Month. JANUARY hath 31 days. 1838. Withering and keen the Winter comes, While Comfort flies to close-shut rooms, And sees the snow in feathers pass, Winnowing by the window-glass. .ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS. ai Dys. I). M. Dys. D. M Dys. D.M. Dys. t>„v. Dys. D. 11. 1 23 1 7 22 24 13 21 30 19 20 22 25 18 59 c 2 32 56 8 22 16 - 14 21 20 20 20 9 26 18 45 a 3 22 51 9 22 8 15 21 9 21 19 56 27 18 29 Q 4 . 22 45 10 21 59 16 20 58 22 19 42 28 18 14 X 5 22 38 11 21 50 17 20 46 23 19 "28 29 17 58 © 6 22 31 12 21 40 18 20 34 24 19 14 30 17 41 MOON'S PHA8E8. D H. M. D. H. M. D First Quarter, 3 1 59M. j <1 Last Quarter, 18 7 50m. O Full Moon, 10 2 36 e. STSlow. Moon Moon Hijrh New Moon, 25 9 7 e o 2 3 M. T« W. Th. Fr. Sa. Su. M. Th. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 W. 11 Th. 12jFr. 13:Sa. 14'Su. 15|M. 16 Tu. Sun rises, sets. 30 4~38 30 4 30 30!4 40 W. Th. 10 Fr. 20 Sa. Su. M. 3 50 4 18 4 40 •30|4 40 5 14 23 Tu. 24! W. |25|Th. 126! Fr. 127'jSa. 28|Su. 29iM. 30'Tu 3l|W. 30 4 41 304 42 30 4 43 30 4 44 30 4 45 30 4 46 5 41 6 7 0 34 South. R. S. 7 16 8 5 8 56 9 49 6 59-10 44 7 24 7 49 II 33 6 31 29,4 471 8 13. 29 4 48| 8 36 1 20 29,4 49 8 59 2 7 28,4 50 .9 211 2 49i 0 45 3 30' V/atcr. 8 50 9 19 28 4 51 j 9 42 27i4 5310 3 26 4 5410 23 26 4 55:10 43 25 4 5711 2 24 4 5811 20| 6 57 23 4 5911 37 7 48 23 5 O i l 53 8 45 2 12 9 9 4,5 6 20 7 22 5 7 215 7 20 5 7 20 5 7 195 |7 18,5 7 17:5 3,12 2410 40 412 3811 50 512 52 613 4 8|13 16 913 27 7 105 1013 37 17 155 12.13 46 55 1 51 2 45 3 3t> 5 40 6 35 Sets. 5 31 6 55 8 16 9 31 4 23 10 5 5 12il0 28 9 14 10 10 11 10 11 44 46 1 1 1 51 2 26 3 Holydays, Aspects, Weather, &c. 4 5340 35 2 5Q Foggy Groggy 5 42; 11 38 3 39 Wet and Boggy. 6 28 Morn. 4 31 $ greatest elong. 28 5 47 21 stationary. 53 7 13 ^4 little soggy. I 1 26 8 22 very snowy. \ 2 5 9 18 $ in Q 2 4910 14 Ban. IS. O. 1815. 3 43 10 58 a hurricane. | Rises.ill 44 5 stationary. I 8 15 Morn. Frosty. 96?! 9 ^ perihelion, j 39 C. J. Fox b. '49.1 I 21 C in Apogee. 10 3 1 4(i quite21 6 <[ sunny* 4 9 11 23 2 12 Ba. Corunna 1801)! 10 52 2 51 Franklin b. 1706.! 5 28 11 53 3 24 Ba. Cowpens, '81 Morn. 4 23 5 1" 6 G I 2 5 5 0 stormy and cold. ! 3 13 6 19 h 6 . ss. Dys. d. m. Dys. d. *. 1 17 8 7 15 20 13 13 24 19 11 19 25 9 8 0 16 51 8 15 2 14 13 3 20 10 58 26 8 46. 3 16 33 9 14 42 15 12 43 21 10 36 27 8 23 4 16 15 10 14 23 16 12 22 22 10 14 28 8 0 5 15 57 39 11 14 3 17 12 1 23 9 52 6 15 12 13 44 18 40 24 9 30, MOON'S PHASES. n. h. m. p. h. m. 5 First Quarter, 1 0 50k. 1 7 £ <£ 7 28 2 10 5 59 Mar. Luther d. 1546 8 29 3 17 7 37 dusty. 9 32 4 24 9 1 06 14 1 16 55j6 17 536 18 52 51 49 47 Sa. 15 456 23 6 19 6 20 6 21 6 22 10 J13 10 17 10 9 44 9 27 9 10 8 53 8 35 8 18 8 0 7 42 7 23 7 5 6 47 6 29 6 10 5 52 5 33 5 15 4 56 4 38 4 19 8 23 9 13 10 10 4o 1! 27 6 7 56 1 25 2 6 2 50 3 35 4 24 5 18 6 17 7 15 8 18 9 16 10 11 11 5 <5 4' 1 39 2 34 3 28 4 24 5 21 High Water. Aspects, Holydays, Weather, &c 4 45j 9 24 2 48 A great thaw 5 39! 10 0 3 36 and freshet. 6 34}10 45 4 37 Windy, $ $ 7 2911 34 6 0 dusty, 2f g © 7 3! dry 9 in Inf. <5 © 8 42 and musty. ? □ © 9 31 9^9 10 15,^ stationary. 10 47 Bears wake from 11 31 (£ in Apogee, morn, their winter's nag 2 about t? <$ 9 14 this lime. g 6 $ Sunny weather. Grows more chilly for St. Patrick. we heard the sharp report of a rifle; and soon after, loud cries for as- Isistance from our friend. We cut out as fast as possible, and upon gaining the top of the ledge, to our horror we saw a great black bear atop of him; I instantly put a ball through him near the heart, and my companion ran up and buried his axe in his head, but in his dying agonies he scratched and bit him terribly. It seems in turning round a rock he had come sud¬ denly upon the bear, and had but just time enough to fire at him and wound him in the fore shoulder, before he knocked him over, but he had presence of mind to seize the bear by the throat, near the root of the tongue, and choke him ; so that he jeould not at first bite hard, but he had so disabled him with his jclaws, that if tve had not arrived so suddenly to his assistance, Ihe would have finished him. We were now obliged to abandon pur hunt, and retrace our steps back with our wounded man; I he fainted with loss of blood before we reached the house; inpon stripping him, we found two of his ribs were broken. A doctor was sent for, and his wounds dressed, hut it was several months before he was able to work again. i Prehaps there is ink enough wasted by a common newspaper scribbler to drown him completely at the end of the year—in jwhich way would it be most profitably employed 1 |4tM Month. APRIL nam 30 days. 1838. The little brooks run on in light, As if they had a chase of mirth ; The skies are blue the air is warm, Our very hearts have caught the charm That shed3 a beauty over earth. ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS. Dys. i) m. Dys. i> m. Dye. d. m. Dys. i). m. Dys. v. m. 1 4 23 7 6 46 13 8 59 19 11 6 25 13 8 c 2 4 52 ■ 8 7 8 14 9 20 20 11 27 26 13 27 0 3 0 15 9 - 7 31 15 9 42 21 11 48 27 13 46 4 5 37 10 7 •53 16 10 0 22 12 8 28 14 5 w 0 6 0 11 8 15 17 10 25 2:5 12 28 29 14 24 03 6 G 231 12 8 37 18 10 46 24 12 48 30 14 43 MOON'S PHASES. I). h. m, ]) First Quarter, 1 4 48e. O Fuil Moon, 9 9 22e. d Last Quarter, Q New Moon, V. H. M. 17 10 45M. 24 2 16M. Sun < IRises, Si fS.slow.j Moon | Moon High | Holvdays, Aspecis, ~ Water. Weather, «Vc. T Su. ;5 2M. !5 3Tu.5 4 W. 5 5Tli.;5 6 Fr. |5 7Sa. 5 8Su. 5 9M. ;5 tOTu.5 n w. 5 12Th.'5 13 Fr. 5 14 Sa. 5 15 Su. 5 16 M. 5 17jTti. 5 is;w. 5 19'Tli.o 20|Fr. 5 21 Sa. 5 22 Su. 5 23,M. 5 24|Tti.5 25 W. 5 ■26:Th.5 27.Fr. 5 28 Sa. 4 29'Su. 4 30 M. 4 43:6 426 406 386 36|6 34;6 326 3116 29!6 2716 26!6 246 236 2I|6 196 186 166 14|6 136 116 106 S|6 6|6 5j6 3;6 2j6 l«6 596 57(6 57l6 ts. Jm. s.jSouth. | R S. TfTTeiioljT 43! 7 9|l 1 25 26 l4 27i3 28'3 29'3 302 3112 32 2 3311 3411 35 1 36 1 37 38 39 25! 7 oSmoru. 71 8 44 49: 9 26 3l|t0 6 14110 46 5811 25 39 22 6 50 34 18 40- Fast. 11 25 40 53 7 19 <5 6' 47 1 32 1 32 2 30 3 33 8 55 9 36 4 3210 16 5 21 rises. 6 31 7 35 8 40 10 45 11 31 41 42 43 44 45 1 47|1 48| 1 32 44 55 6 17 491 50 1. 522 532 542 27 55|2 572 57:2 36 45 54 2 211 9 51 3 14! 10 58 4 0:11 55 5 9iraorn. 8j 1 52 2 35 3 8 3 37 4 2 8 0 8 53 9 44 10 33 11 23| 5 56 16| sets. 1 111 5 5! 2 81 6 29 7 23 8 12 3 4 5 0 9 11 5 51110 16 4 9< You April Fool. 5 40jBat. Copen. 1801. 6 29, Cowslips begin to 7 52 Napier {lied, 1617. § in Q. blossom. d in Apogee. Sap begins to run up <£ Eclipsed. 9 in Perihelion. 2jabout this time. 21J Quite squally, 1 Z\h6 1 30|Bat. Alman. 1707. 2 I3iFranklin d. 1790. 3 61 with thunder 4 11 storms. 5 36|Byron died, 1824. 7 8|Bat. Lexin. 1775. 8 1 \gentle W 6 9 13|lnsur. Mon. 1832. 4 37jl0 3m in Perigee. 10 43 Sltaksp. d. 1616. showers may gr. elongation. be expected York, U.C. t. 1813. about this Eper. t. 1814. 11 46 Eve 40 1 23 2 10 2 57 3 48jtime. 9 1° 23- 5th Month. MAY hath 31 days. 1838. Up—let us to the fields away, And breathe the fresh and balmy air: The bird is building in the tree, The flower has opened to the bee, And health, and love, and peace are there. ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS. £ Dy8. D. M. Dys. [i. M. Dys. D. M. Dys. ». M. Dys. D. M. 1 1* 1 f 16 46 13 18 20 19 19 44 25 20 55! c 2 15 19 8 17 2 14 18 33 20 19 56 26 21 6i o 3 It 37 9 17 18 15 18 49 21 20 9 27 21 16' Q 4 15 55 10 17 34 16 r9 3 22 20 21 28 21 26i 5 16 12 11 17 50 17 19 17 23 20 33 29 21 36| e 16 29 12 18 5 18 19 31 24 20 44 30 21 451 D First Quarter, Q Full Moon, MOON'S PHASES. 1). H. M. D. H. M 1 9 20m. I (j Last Quarter, 16 4 57e. 9 0 13k. j Q New Moon, 23 11 39m. IjTu. 2W- 3Th, 4|Fr. 5jSa. 6Su. 71M 8Tu. 9 10 11 12 13 14! 15 10 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 VV. rh, Fr. Sa. Su. i\l. Tu. VV. Th, Fr. Sa. Su. M. Tu, VV. Th. Fr Sun Rises, Sets. 26 Sa. Su. M Tu. 30 W. 3l|Th. 51 53 52 507 497 6 59 7 0! 7 1| o S. fast. Moon iMoon i High j Holvdays, Aspects, m. s. South. |R. S.jWaterJ Weather, &c. g-4--4^;Addison b> J6727" 48 47 467 G! 457 7! 3 2 6 3911 3 9 7 22morn.l 5 53 3 1G; 8 4 1 24 7 12 3 23 8 43| 2 2lj 7 51 3 29; 9 22| 3 18! 8 51 3 3410 2 3 44| 9 32. 4|10 14 7 8 7 9 7 10' 7 111 7 12 44 43 42 4] 40 397 13 7 14 7 15 7 16 7 171 7 18| 7 19 7 20 7 21 7 22 307 23 2917 24 2817 25 27|7 26 2617 27 267 28, 207 28' 38 37 36 36 35 34 33 32 31 3 3910 44 3 4311 28 3 47 d 3 50 16 3 52; 1 3 54; 2 3 56: 3 3 56j 4 3 5<* 5 Bat.of Lutzen,18l3. Warm. <£ <£ in Apogee. 5 stationary. 4 28 rises. 7 37 8 47 9 54 5jll 0 3 morn. 36 5 56 6 48 7 37 3 55 3 53 3 51 3 48 8 25 3 451 9 14 3 4110 4 3 37110 56 3 3211 50 3 26 52 3 20 1 40 3 .14 2 47 3 7 3 41 3 6 4 31 2 50 5 16 10 48j 11 34 Columb. 4th vovage k 6 <£ " Lord Chatham d.'78 Grows very morn. 2 37 1 21 pleasant $gr. elong. 2 6 and $ in $! 2 58 Cape Ccd disc. 1602 1 13 3 53iBatt. Albuera 1811.; 1 40i 4 5ljZtoL g in Inf. £ Oj 2 2| 6 Silijxpect a squall. 2 30j 7 33.! 4 48! 9 34j and breezy. 6 6|10 26iPope b.1688. £ £ <£ sets. |l 1 10|6rr 22l7 22i> 221> 23i> 23-|> 23|> 23,* 23,} 237 23,7 247 24|7 24 7 30 30 30 31 32 33 33 34 35 35 36 3 37 38' 38 38 38 38 38 39 39 39 39 39 40 40 30 Sa. .4 247 S. fast. M. s. Moon South. Moon R S High W ater. 2 35 7 19 1 12 5 50 2 26 7 59 1 48 6 30 2 17 8 39 2 6 7 37 2 7 9 22 2 30 8 51 1 57 10 9 2 57 9 39 1 47 10 59 3 29 10 25 1 36 11 55 4 13 11 15 1 25 6 rises. 11 30 1 14 55 8 50 morn. T 2 1 5(> 9 45 45 50 2 35 10 34 1 27 3S 3 51 11 12 2 7 26 4 45 11 45 2 48 14 5 34 morn. 3 31 1 6 22 29 4 25 Slow. 7 10 1 24 5 41 11 7 59 2 36 6 30 23 8 49 3 49 7 57 36 9 43 5 3 9 12 10 39 6 18 10 9 1 2 11 34 sets. 10 54 1 16 35 4 5 11 40 1 29 1 30 5 41 19 1.42 2 22 6 47 54 1 55 3 10 7 53 1 26 2 8 3 54 8 58 2 10 2 29 4 35 9 58 2 38 2 33 5 1511 1 3 12 2 45 5 5411 50 3 49 2 58 a 33 morn. 4 36 Holidays, Aspects, Weather, &c. Chesap. tak. 1813. I/arm showers. W nO 9 in A ph. Peace Trip. 1805. Rather rawish. Grows Ti J <£. quite warm. Black P. d. 1376. Expect a storm about this time. £ great elonga. Quite pleasant. C in Perigee. Clear and hot. Bat. Water. 1816. Stationary. 9 6 <£• Very dusty. S 6 w«j»iwiiiw^iMii'i>wiiae3wiHiw in mm iiimnn JULY hath 31 da vs. 1838. Now let me tread the meadow paths While glittering dew the ground illumes, As sprinkled o'er the withering swaths, Their moisture shrinks in sweet perfumes. ASTaosfOMicii.ij CA£.onrijATio3ys. ; iDys. * I 1 Dys 23 i). m. Djs. i). m. Dys. n. m. Dys. d. 122 381 Id 121 ffil 19 i20 ■ 54. 25 119 43 i© 2 23 4 8 22 31 14 21 44 20 23 3 23 0 !) 22 24 15 21 35 21 20 4 22 55| 10 22 17 16 21 25 22 20 5 22 4:-,6' 30 19 30 19 17 19 3 18 49 18 35 MOON'S PHAS25. r>- H. M D. H. M. O Full Moon, 7 2 34m. I © New Moon, 21 9 38m. fl Last Quarter. 14 2 35m. | d First Quarter, 29 1 IOe. d | d a I 3 1 Su. 2'M. 3!Tu. 4 W. 5Th. 6'Fr. 7|Sa. 8|Su. 9M. 10T u. lljW. 12:Th. 13Fr. H-JSa. i ji5|Su. ll6M. [17 Tu. 18W. 119 Th. [20 121 '■22 !i23, 21 25 26 Sun Rises, Sets. 40 40 4 267 4 26 7 4 2'6|7 40 4 277 39 4 28.7 4 297 4 307 39 4 30(7 38 4 317 38 4 327 3i 4 33 7 37 3.slow.1 Moon | Mos*n j High i Holidays, Aspects, s.j South. ,R. P.! Water J Weather, &c. ___ . 39 39 Fr. Sa. Su. M. Tu. \V. Tli. lj27jFr. }28]Sa. 129}Su. 3()|M. !;3llTu, 337 37 347 36 35!7 36 367 35 37|7 34 38; 7 34 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 397 33 4 4 4 4 4 43,7 39! 7 .32 40j7 3) "4lj7 31 427 30 29 44-7 28 45j7 27 467 26 47|7 25 ;4 487 24 4 49|7 23 j4 5(17 22 14 5tl7 21 7 15 31 7 59 55 8 48; 1 23 9 42j 2 3 3 33 3 44 3 55 4 610 411 2 52|S0 11 4 16111 42 3 47111 2 I rises. Ill' 40 4 26 4 36 5 40, Very foggy. 7 5jB in Q. 7 56| Hot. "fy C 9 11 Independ. 1776. Surren. Alg. 1830 Quite delightful. 44| 8 28;;noni. 4 45; 1 43, 4 53 2 39 5 21 3 31 5 37j 7 37 5 43j 8 32 5 48; .9 29 5 5310 26 9 13 £ Perihelion. Very pleasant. 33;Brad. defeat, 1755. 9 46l 1 It) (][ in Perigee. 10 111 1 47 Kt <$ . 5 10 4 2010 34j 2 23 $ in Sup. Q. ,5 17j 5 8|11 15j 3 & Grows warm. 5 24j 5 5Gjniorn.| .3 53jFrem,h Rev. 1789 5 3-11 6 46, ! 42 4 Will at nights. 6 SjStony P. tak. 1779. 7 4ilAdani Sm. d. 1790. 5 18j 8 '58! 9 5 <[. 6 21J 9 56j4 white squall. 7 810,39 Thunder showers. b be a 0 6 3 6 61 6 6 6 10 6 9 6 8 6 6 6 6 2 54 4 7 sets. 4 34 5 43 6 45 11 19 13 1 4 1 49 2 31 3 12 3 51 9 30] 2 7j (£ in Apogee. 4 2910 15j 2 51292 Stationary. 5 910 32j 3 OBaiubridged. 1833. 5 5210 52j 3 49,Wi]berf. d. 1833. 6 3Si! 1 2lj 4 41 Smoky weather. 7 29111 54! 6 OClear. h 6 D- 11 34j Very $ <$ £• eve. ; dusty. 38-13at. Coinab- 1832. 53Eng. took G. 1794. 7 47j 1 28,^/^ D'g. d.begin. 4 AO •> Ti tr ... A - Ifith Month. AUGUST hath 31 days. 183$. Around liim ply the reaper band, With lightsome heart and eager hand, And i«!rth ar»d music cheer the toil, While sheaves that stud the russet soil, And sickles gleaming in the sun, Tell jocund Autumn has begun. 'Dys. n. m. I"! ASTRONOIJgCiLS. DyS. 1>. P E lid S j]7 50 17 55 17 19 17 8 18 47' 7 8 9 10 11 12 'Hi |l<> 115 il5 115 115 331 13: 5(5 '.l-M 2V 3' OAItCCTIaATZOWS. i). m. Dys. I)ys. n. M. DM. Ill 14 "45 i'.f 14 14 27 20 15 14 d 21 1(1 13 49 22 17 13 30 23 id 13 11 24 ElOOISPS PZIASES. d. h. m. 12 O Full Moon, d Last Quarter, « Sun- jS.slow. Rises, Sets. m. s. 4~527~^0: 6 i 41k. 44 si. New Moon, D First Quarter, 1|W. 2 The 3jFr. 4|Sa. 5jSu. CM. 7 4 53 7 J9| 5 57 4 51 8 Tti.|4 W. |4 of> 5C 57 5S7 59,7 7 18 5 5310 26 ?i 10 15 14 13 11 STh.5 F r. 15 Sa. Sti. M. Tu. W. Th. Fr. Sa. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16j 17 IS I9>Su, 291 21 22 23 24 25 2« 27 28 29 M. Tu W. Th. Fr. Sa. Su. M. Tu. W. 30jTh 3l|Fr. 0 7 10 1 7 9 o /w 7 8 3 7 7 4 7 5 5 7 4 6 7 2 7 7 1 Moon Moon High South. IK. S. Water. 8 24.morn. 7 .Excessively hot. 9 24 1 29 8 53 Bat. of Blen. 1704. Hntidajrs, Aspects, Weather, &c. 5 48 5 42 5 3d 5.30 5 22 5 14 5 a 4 57 4" 48 4 38 4 2 4 10 4 4 11 20 25 1 20 2 13 3 3 3 52 4 42 5 33 0 28 7 24 8 21 9 10 8 12 8 38, 9 7 1 10 17| 2 11 30 2 mon-t.i 3 5 8 0 59j 3 5210 9,6 58j 3 40 1010 56) 3 27 55 ~ 54 11 6 120 14 0 52 15 0 51 6 491 0 3 13 2 59 2 44 2 29 2 14 48 1 58 5 18 6 40 1 42 19 6 44j 1 25 206 421 1 8 216 41 . 50 2210 39i 32 2216 371 14 2 37i 9 50 Arktvright d. 1792. 3 4110 40 A violent snow storm rises. 11 41 may he expected. 7 42morn. Ben John. d. 1037. 2 C in Perigee. 35 9 6 O- 19- $ in Q. 8,Hurrie. in B. 1831 45j Very warm. j 30iA severe, drought! 1 58 4 31 will take place. j 3 13j 5 55) 1"ery pleasant. j 4 16 7 29 Hot. >2 □ ©. It 11 46 29 1 10 1 50 2 28 3 7 o 11! 8 45Clear. g £ <£.ij 5 52| 9 Smoky. 9 d (f.i 6 30,10 20Dclamhre d. 1822. 6 41 7 3 8 17 3 481 8 50 4 32 9 20 5 18 0 12 9 48 10 28 7 911 14 8. Sjtnorn. 9 8l 1 24 sets. 11 0^ $ << %. 5 4111 40$ in Aphelion, eve. 9 in Q 39 $ 6 . h. m. O Full Moon, 4 1 33m. 5 Last Quarter, 10 5 25e. n. h. m. $ New Moon, 18 4 0e. 5 First Quarter, 26 5 9e. p p | Sun S. fast.. Moon j Moon s 5 Rises, Sets. m. s.iSouth. R. S. 1 Sa. 2 Su. 3'M. 4 Tu. 5 W. 6 Th. 7iFr. 8Sa. 9'Su. lOjM. 11 Tu. 12jW 13|Th. 14 Fr. l5Sa. 16|Su. 17 M. ISlTu. 19W. Th. Fr. Sa. j23Su. 84 25 26 27 28 29 30 M, Tu. W. Th. Fr. Sa. Su. 30 31 32 33 35 36 37 39 40 42 43 44 46 47 49 50 52 53 54 56 57 5 595 05 25 3 5 6 7 10 31 30 28! 26! 25 23 21 20 18 16 14 12 11 9 7 5 4 2 0 59 57 55 53 51 49 4 45 44 42 401 310 2211 41; S1 1 1 1 20 1 40; 1 2 0 2 21 2 41 3 2 3 22 3 43 4 4 4 25 4 46 5 7 5 28 5 49 6 10 6 31 6 52 7 13 7 34 7 54 8 15 8 35 8 55 9 15 9 35 9 55 2 58' 50 41 33 25 21 16 15 13 7 57 47 28 9 50 2 6 46 29 16 5 High Holidays, Aspects, Water. Weather, SWr?. \ £ CC ■! I 1 25jBat.Redbar)k, 1777. 2 5| Grows chilly. 2 49 Clear and windy. 3 39 Quite warm. j Hogarth d. 1761, ~r 6 I Very raw. | 7 29 Stif 8 41 9 321 breezes. A sharp frost. 6 C 10 241 <£ in Perigee. ggaCTKManigiaBgiwriiiiiiiij iiii'iuawTaaitrarBM 40' A Scspcralfi Figllt betwecia two Women J one Ian, and two Bears#. I Having arrived, one afternoon, at a solitary log cabin in] Lenawee County, M. T., in the autumn of 1834, the owner was] (absent, but his wife and sister were at home. They were at] teupper, when I entered, upon their invitation. 1 sat down with {them, and helped myself with an iron spoon from a dish of isnppawn, and fishing up a cup from a huge pan of milk, I poured the snowy liquid jver the boiled meal that rivalled it in ■whiteness. 1 now took off my leggings, and stretched them on |fhe andirons to dry. After a sociable evening was passed with ■the feionies, 3 had taken off my coat to ascend into the loft of the cabin, when the hogs, which ran at large around the house,] jset vp a terrible squealing, and ran for the house. One of thel jwornen sprang up and opened the door, when she sprang back jand screamed out that two bears were coming. In rushed two! jpigs, and before 1 could reach the door, the bears bolted in, iknocking the door off its hinges, and upsetting the churns and (stools. Luckily there was a large fire at the time, as the wo- [Imen were boiling maple sttgar; one of the women had just {dipped our a bucket of the hot liquor; snatching it up, she let (the foremost hear have it full in his. face and eyes, whilst the! (other female seized up an axe and buried it in bis skull. Ai {terrible struggle now ensued; the wounded bear, blinded by] the hot liquor, clawed hold of one of the women, and scratched! her terribly—but the other one wielded her axe to so good aj purpose, that the brute was quickly dispatched. The other; one was so intent after the pigs, which ran up between some! 'logs in the corner of the room, that f seized up a great shovef {of burning coals and threw on to him ; this made him instantly {abandon the pursuit, of the pigs, and make for the door, roar- ling with pain. I instantly applied a large burning log to his Iposterious, as he galloped out, and seizing a rifle which was (hanging on hooks on the side of the room, I ran out and fired j'at him. The ball took effect, but although he appeared to be badly wounded, he escaped over the fence into the forest. We {now barricadned the door, and passed the night without farther (interruption. In the morning, upon the arrival of *the owner of the house, we tracked the bear for about half a mile, and found him, very much disabled; we soon dispatched and butchered him. Both of the bears were fat, and fine eating. j Talking is breath, and in one minute, in this talkative age, ithere is breath enough expended to waft a seventy-four—to (compose two or three whirlwinds, and prehaps a moderate jhurricane—to lengthen out the lives of a thousand men to the jage of Methuselah, and to supply twenty newspapers with puffsi >for a whole year. [ li lth Month. NOVEMBER liath 30 days. 1838, Cold grows the foggy morn, the day is brief, Loose on the cherry hangs the crimson leaf; The dew dwells ever on the herb; the woods Roar with strong blasts, with mighty showers the floods. ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS. . Yr Dys. D. M. Dys. D. M. Dys. 1J. M. Dys. n. m. Dys. D. M. J 14 23 7 16 15 13 17 56 19 19 27 25 20 44 o 14 43 8 16 32 14 18 12 20 19 41 26 20 56 S 3 15 2 !) 16 50 15 IS 28 21 19 54 27 21 7 M 4 15 20 10 17 7 16 18 43 22 20 7 28 21 18 r> 15 SO 11 17 24 17 18 58 23 20 20 29 21 28 & 6 15 51 12 17 40 18 19 12 24 20 32 30 21 38 O Full Moon, H Last Quarter, MOON'S PHASES. r>. h. m. n. h. m. 1 7 40e. f $ New Moon, 17 3 18m 8 19 4e. I J) First Quarter, 24 1 48e e, » g| 3 ItF." 2Fr. Sa. Su. M. Tn. W. Th. Fr. Sa. Su. M. Tu. VV. Th. l&Fr. 17 Sa. jl8|Su. 19M. •20|Tu. r2i|w. i22'Th. ■23|Fr. 24iSa. 25jSu. 26jM. 27iTu. 2S!W. >29Th. %0Fr. Sun Rises, Sets. |S. fast.i Moon Moon High Holidays, Aspects, s.jSouth R. S. Water. Weather, &c. 45 47 6 48! 6 49 51 52 53 55 56 57 58 59 0 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 16 14|11 16 15 16 16 16 15 16 14 16 12 '6 9 16 5 16 0 15 55 15 48 15 41 15 33 15 23 15 14 15 3 14 51 14 39 14 25 14 11 13 56 13 41 13 24 13 7 12 49 12 31 12 11 11 51 11 3010 11 9 11 49 47 47 49 49 45 36 23 6 47 26 4 44 26 10 57 49 45 41 38 33 25 15 4 52 41 33 28 28 rises. 7 4 8 12 9 31 10 44 11 44 morn. 1 0 1 31 1 54 2 16 2 33 3 15 4 13 5 18 6 22 sets. 11 OLisbon dest. 1755. 11 39 Bat. Fr. Cre. 1813. Snow, Snow. morn. 36 1 21 2 6 2 48 3 33 4 36 5 37 6 18 7 34 8 33 9 13 9 56 10 30 11 17 5 511 47 5 50] 34 6 46 1 13 7 54 9 3 10 131 11 27 morn. 1 8 2 16 2 41 3 11 4 3 1 54 2 36 3 22 4 18 £ in Sup. ©. Bat. Jemap. 1792. S in &■ Good sleighing. Cortez ent. M. '19. Mont, taken, 1775. c?dC. Violent slippery C in Apogee. weather. 21 d- u see the sea sar-| pint ? " " No, indeed, I did not, although I spoke, for him not to be out of the way." "Well, colonel, I wonder at those Yankee fellows, they are monstrous cute; but I suspect they don't know nnieh about Snaking. I think with me in the Hun-[ |44 Th« Backwoodsman. f ter here, you with your rifle, and one of these 'long shore' iSpaniajrds with his lasso, we'd give him a little of the hurricane} u4pt with thunder." "If we didn't catch him," says I, " wei, could scare him out of his skin, and that's all they want at the! (museum." I The Backwoodsman. I The Backwoodsman is a singular being, always moving west- Jward like a buffalo before the tide of civilization. He does not |want a neighbor nearer than ten miles; and when he cannot jcut down a tree that will fall within ten rods of his log house, [h? thinks it time to sell out his betterment and be off, to squat flown in some distant place in the forest, build a log house, re- jmain there just long enough to get a few acres under cultivation, jand then pull up stakes and be off to some distant place.j iThey even like the excitement consequent upon rambling about.; The picture opposite represents a squatter who has sold outj his betterment, and is waiting with his family at a landing on Jthe Mississippi, to take a steamer. His destination is the state bf Arkansaw. Col. Crockett and the Sea Sarp&nt. Says I to one of the Yankees when in Boston, " do yon be¬ lieve in the Sea Sarpint 1" " If I don't there's no snakes. I believe it to be as much true as there is lie in our Deaconi when he says his red face aint made by drinking " New Eng-j land." " Do you consider him dangerous, or is he peaceable ? " Well, now, to keep the truth, I never saw him; but Capting Hodijah Folger said as how he considered the critter ns a sort' o' so, and a sort o' not." " Had he a long tail 1" " Tail did| you say 1 You'd a died to hear Dij tell about that thar Ter¬ ming. Dij said he was like skying a copper—head or tail—, but you had to guess which. Says Dij to me, Don't you mind, says he, that are angel what stood with one leg oil the sea, andj [t'other on the dry land 1 I guess I do. Well, says he to me,| jthat 'ere sarpent's skin was long enough to a' queued his hair." i A. Calculating Crow. A crow, perceiving a brood of fourteen chickens, under the care of the parent hen, on a lawn, picked up one; but on a! young lady opening a window and giving the alarm, the rob¬ ber dropped his prey. In the course of the day, however, the plunderer returned, accompanied by thirteen other crows,! when every one seized his bird, and carried off the whole} brood at once. ; 12th Month. DECEMBER hath 31 days. 1838.1 No mark of vegetable life is seen, No bird to bird repeats his tuneful call, Save the dark leaves of Some rude evergreen, Save the lone ^ed-brcast on the moss-grown wall. ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS. Dys. i). w. Dys. n. m. Dys. i>. m. Dys. n. m. l)ys. d. 1 121 4d 7 22 37 13 2 21 57 8 22 43 14 3 22 6 9 22 49 15 4 22 14 10 22 55 16 5 22 22 11 23 0 17 6 22 30 12 23 5 18 23 9i 19 23 13 20 23 17 21 23 201 22 23 22I 23 23 241 24 23 2t 23 27 23 27 23 27 23 27 23 2G 25 t23 25] 20 27 2* 29 30 23 23 23 2lj 23 18j 23 151 23 11 MOON'S PHASES. Q Full Moon, ([ Last Quarter. New Moon, 16 5 First Quarter, O Full Moon, i>. H. M. 23 10 22e 30 12 35e Moon | High i Holydays, Aspects, R. sJWater.l Weather, &c. 11 31 Leo X.d. 1521. morn. Sincerely cold. 20 Rev. in Eng. 1688. 1 2 A great squall., 1 41 with high snore 2 18 drifts. 2 58 Very airy. 3 30 d €• Clear. 4 25 Snow. "this wa'nt sPort enoUSh' Va man's \° bet that could knock the tin cupj lo et him >^Ian<* there was one fellow fool-hardy enough other was dike's brother, tvho was just such ^jp^ieat strapping fellow as himself, b»t hadn't as much JRn his head as Mike had in his little finger. He was al- ys willing to let Mike shoot the cup off his head, provided' t he'd share the quart with him ; and Mike would rather! e him the whole of it than miss the chance of displaying hisi ill. Dowa there at Smithiand, behind the Cumberland bar,"| Ltinued Captain Jo, " used to bo Mike's head quarters; and! fe day when he had made a bet that he'd shoot the tin cup If from a fellow's head, he happened to fire a little too quick,J fld lodged the ball in bis brains. A man >vho stood a little/ «v off, and had an old grudge against Mike, leveled his rifle? Id shot him dead on the spot; and this was the end of Milt# ink, the first boatman who dared to navigate a broad hor£ >.wri the falls of the Ohio. See last page for an engraving of Mike Fink. eke Fink, the Ohio Uoatinan. |\ 9;fe tivw ii:t !I2|W 13T 14 Fi 15 Sal 16 Su 17 >1. 18jTu 19; w. 20jTh 21|Fr. 22'Sa. |23;Su. ;24iM. 25!Tti. BfijW. 27[Th. mm 29Sa. 30jSu. 131 M.