province of Great Britain, a simple, good-natured fello of tly in ter Stuyvesant, and accompanied o t Cina.

    ed,  little of tial cer of ors. I  ured man;  o tter circumstance mig meekness of spirit  to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, less, are rendered pliant and malleable in tic tribulation, and a curtain-lecture is eacues of patience and long-suffering. A termagant s, be considered a tolerable blessing, and if so, Rip Van inkle hrice blessed.

    Certain it is, t  favorite among all took  in all family squabbles, and never failed, ters over in to lay all too, ed at ts, made taugo ?y kites and s marbles, and told tories of gs, c dodging about troop of ts, clambering on ricks on y; and not a dog   the neighborhood.

    t error in Rips composition o all kinds of pro?table labor. It could not be for  of assiduity or perseverance; for  on a  rock, artars lance, and ?s a murmur, even t be encouraged by a single nibble. ogetrudging to s a fe a neig toil, and  man in all country frolics for one fences; too, used to employ o run to do suctle odd jobs as t do for to attend to anybodys business but  as to doing family duty, and keeping  impossible.

    In fact,  o  pestilent little piece of ground in try; everyt it  e of inually falling to pieces; ray, or get among to groting in just as -door o do; so t trimonial estate , acre by acre, until ttle more left tcatoes, yet it -conditioned farm in the neighborhood.

    oo, o nobody. ten in o in ts, rooping like a