he Messrs. Stuart.]

[Footnote 6: Calling on Church lately, we found him finishing his
Cotopaxi for Mr. Lenox. Price, six thousand dollars.]

THUNDER ALL ROUND!

'When it once begins to thunder,
You will hear it all around!'
And we waited--till in wonder
Soon we heard the awful sound:
Crashing cannon, rifle-rattle,
Bowing many a traitor-head:
On, McClellan, with the battle!
Strike the Typhon-serpent dead!

WAS HE SUCCESSFUL?

'Do but grasp into the thick of human life! Every one _lives_ it--to
not many is it _known;_ and seize it where you will, it is
interesting.'--_Goethe_.

'SUCCESSFUL.--Terminating in accomplishing what is wished
or intended.'--_Webster's Dictionary_.

CHAPTER V.

SOME ACCOUNT OF JOEL BURNS OF BURNSVILLE

You will find, as you travel through the country, but few very poor
people in New-England. Rarely are the 'selectmen' called to act either
on applications for admission as one of the 'town's poor,' or to 'bind
out' a boy or girl till one-and-twenty.

One evening--it was the close of a cold, raw day in the latter part of
November--the stage deposited a woman, and a lad perhaps twelve years
old, at the village tavern in Sudbury. She was intending to ride all
night; indeed, she had paid her 'fare' through to New-Haven, but, seized
with sudden illness, she was compelled to stop. Her malady proved to be
typhus fever. The doctor was summoned, who subjected his patient to the
terrific treatment then in vogue for that disorder, and in due course
she died. It turned out on inquiry, that the woman, whose name was
Burns, was on her way to a married sister's in Pennsylvania; further,
that she was a widow, the lad her only child, and the sister in
Pennsylvania the only near relation she had in the world. This sister
was by no means in affluent circumstances, but she could offer a home to
'Sarah,' which the latter was glad to accept. After disposing of the
trifling articles unsuitable to carry with her, she had barely money
enough to defray the expenses of herself and 'Joel' to their new abode.
The poor woman's journey was interrupted, as we have explained, at
Sudbury, and a new direction given to it. She departed for 'the
undiscovered country,' leaving little Joel to cry himself asleep; for
the time quite heart-broken, and desolate enough.

There was not time to write to the married sister; so the selectmen,
after ascertaining what money still