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then gave a mysterious shrug, a humph, or a screw of the mouth;
and on being asked his opinion at the conclusion, said, he did
not know what to think of it; he hoped it did not mean anything against the government, that no lurking treason was
couched in all this talk. These were dangerous times-times of
plot and conspiracy; he did not at all like those stars after
Mr. Jefferson's name —they had an air of concealment. DICK
PADDLE, who was one of the group, undertook our cause. Dick
is known to the world as being a most knowing genius, who can
see as far as anybody-into a millstone; maintains, in the teeth
of all argument, that a spade is a spade; and will labor a good
half hour by St. Paul's clock to establish a self-evident fact.
Dick assured old Fungus that those stars merely stood for Mr.
Jefferson's red what-d'ye-call-'emns, and that, so far from a conspiracy against their peace and prosperity, the authors, whom he
knew very well, were only expressing their high respect for
them. The old man shook his head, shrugged his shoulders,
gave a mysterious Lord Burleigh nod, said he hoped it might be
so; but he was by no means satisfied with this attack upon the
President's breeches, as " thereby hangs a tale."
MR. WILSON'S CONCERT.
BY ANTHONY EVERGREEN, GENT.
TN my register of indisputable facts I have noted it conspicuously, that all modern music is but mere dregs and draining
of the ancient, and that all the spirit and vigor of harmony has
entirely evaporated in the lapse of ages. Oh I for the chant of