would at once revert to America.

"I will try to keep him up," said he, "as well as I can,
but I can't do it alone. If you do go, don't leave us
long. Whenever I find him dull, and can't cheer him up
no how I can fix it, by talk, or fun, or sight seein' or
nothin', I make him vexed, and that excites him, stirs
him up with a pot stick, and is of great sarvice to him.
I don't mean actilly makin' him wrathy in airnest, but
jist rilin of him for his own good, by pokin' a mistake
at him. I'll shew you, presently, how I do it."

As soon as Mr. Hopewell rejoined us, he began to inquire
into the probable duration of our visit to this country,
and expressed a wish to return, as soon as possible, to
Slickville.

"Come, Minister," said Mr. Slick, tapping him on the
shoulder, "as father used to say, we must 'right about
face' now. When we are at home let us think of home, when
we are here, let us think of this place. Let us look
a-head, don't let's look back, for we can't see nothin'
there."

"Indeed, Sam," said he, with a sad and melancholy air,
"it would be better for us all if we looked back oftener
than we do. From the errors of the past, we might rectify
our course for the future. Prospective sin is often
clothed in very alluring garments; past sin appears in
all its naked deformity. Looking back, therefore--"