while our companions gave themselves up to sandwiches and boiled
eggs.

We called to mind the striking resemblance in form and features,
which the vast monarch bears to the Stoneman family, and we
rejoiced that a gallant General of our army could trace his
ancestry to one who stood so high in the community.

From appearances we should judge the seraphic Emperor to be a man
of property--worth at least fifty thousand dollars.

Whether he were so or not, we certainly were petrified--
with astonishment.

Yours for the right, THOMAS.

DICK'S REPORT.

There's no use talking; that fellow was once a living and breathing
human being. In my opinion he walked these hills and valleys, just
the same as we do, thousands and thousands of years ago. We read
of the sons of Anak, but this chap was the father of Anak. It is
beyond the art of man to carve so perfect a human being out of
stone. Anybody who could sculp like that could have made his
fortune, without hiding his work away and letting it be discovered
by accident in after ages. And who ever saw a piece of statuary
in such a position, and without hair on?

The man that says that this petrified man is nothing but a graven
image, proves that he is a little soft in the upper story. There