Yourn,

BIRDOFREDUM SAWIN.

[We have now a tolerably fair chance of estimating how the balance-sheet
stands between our returned volunteer and glory. Supposing the entries
to be set down on both sides of the account in fractional parts of one
hundred, we shall arrive at something like the following result:--

_Cr._ B. SAWIN, Esq., _in account with_ (BLANK) GLORY. _Dr._

By loss of one leg 20 To one 675th three cheers
" do. one arm 15 in Faneuil Hall 30
" do. four fingers 5 " do. do. on occasion
" do. one eye 10 of presentation of
" the breaking of six ribs 6 sword to Colonel Wright 25
" having served under " one suit of grey clothes
Colonel Cushing one (ingeniously unbecoming) 15
month 44 " musical entertainments
(drum and fife six
months) 5
" one dinner after return 1
" chance of pension 1
" privilege of drawing
longbow during rest of
natural life 23
---- ----
E. E. 100 100

It would appear that Mr. Sawin found the actual feast curiously the
reverse of the bill of fare advertised in Faneuil Hall and other places.
His primary object seems to have been the making of his fortune.
_Quaerenda pecunia primum, virtus post nummos._ He hoisted sail for
Eldorado, and shipwrecked on Point Tribulation. _Quid non mortalia
pectora cogis, auri sacra fames?_ The speculation has sometimes crossed
my mind, in that dreary interval of drought which intervenes between
quarterly stipendiary showers, that Providence, by the creation of a
money-tree, might have simplified wonderfully the sometimes perplexing
problem of human life. We read of bread-trees, the butter for which lies
ready-churned in Irish bogs. Milk-trees we are assured of in South
America, and stout Sir John Hawkins testifies to water-trees in the
Canaries. Boot-trees bear abundantly