"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

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it; how John took her advice, and let the irons cool again;
and how some suspected if Johln's fingers had not smarted he
would not have complied so soon.
CHAPTER XIV.-A dialogue on education, between fair
George and lame Will. How Will proved it to be both cruel
and impolitic to pinch children till they cried, and then pinch
them for crying; and how George answered and said nothing.
CHAPTER xv.-How John, by means of his new servants,
became beloved of his children, and respected by his neighbors; how he obliged Louis Baboon to beat down the walls of
Ecclesdown castle, because it overlooked his pond, and harbored seagulls, to gobble up his fish. How he made him also
pay up his note of hand; and how Lord Strutt.
WIhat Lord Strutt did, does not appear, but this veracious
narrator of the olden time, has furnished us with a genealogical treatise, invaluable in itself, and highly illustrative of
many striking peculiarities, which we find to be even at this
day, the distinctive family traits of" Sam," who has clearly
inherited many of the good as well as bad qualities complained of, and portrayed above in the character of his ancestor, John Bull. Though Sam is in this instance the
rather graphic complainant, yet we have endeavored to show,
that in many instances since, his own conduct would have
been no discredit to the attributes of the venerable elder
John, himself!
But that "Sam" now began to have real causes of complaint, we shall perceive by the following "catalogue of oppressions, and contrast of the causes which led to the revolution
which deposed James II., and those which led to the American Revolution." This valuable document is from
JUDGE DRAYTONIS CHARGE,
At an adjournment of the Court of GENERAL SESSIONS OF
THE PEACE, OYER AND TERMINER, ASSIZE, AND GENERAL
GAOL DELIVERY, held at Charleston, for the District of Charleston, on Tuesday, the 23d day of April, 1776, before the
HON. WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON, Esq., Chief-justice, and his
Associates, justices of the colony of Suth Carolina.
Even the famous revolution in England, in the year
1688, is much inferior. However, we need no better authority