But who would not believe that some wonderful novelty is presented to his intellect, when he is afterwards told, in the true bugbear style, that "the ares, in the former sense, are things that lie between the have-beens and shall-bes.

Not the east against the west, the north against the south, the "Haves" against the "Have-nots"; but the evil against the good,that is the real conflict of life.

" "Miss Banks (Miss Peggy Banks) was the belle when I came first downyet she had been so many seasons here, that she obtained but a faint and languid attention; so that the smarts began to put her down in their list of had-beens.

[Illustration: A-round our coasts the fish-ers meet With Had-docks, which, when dri-ed, we eat.]

Most miserable man, whom wicked fate Hath brought to court, to sue for had-ywist, That few have found, and manie one hath mist!