It so chanced that during this day the rations dealt out to us were smaller than before, and this gave the fool croakers an opportunity of airing their grievances in fine style.

We are told by these croakers of calamity, not only that our present ministers design to enslave us, but that the same malignity of purpose is to descend through all their successors; and that the wealth to be poured into England by the Pactolus of America, will, whenever it comes, be employed to purchase the "remains of liberty.

Fancy the rail gone, and we have neither telegraph, nor school-house, nor anything of all this but the sunset,and even that we could not be there to see in spring-time, at least, unless we could transmigrate for the time into the relinquished forms of some of these aboriginal bull-frogs, which grow to the nice size of two feet in length, destined, no doubt, to receive the souls of habitual croakers hereafter.

Croakers say, as they have always said, that the race of giants has died out.

Again, Ericsson, as an experimenter and pioneer, was by some considered as a dreamer, and before the "Monitor" was completed there was no lack of croakers who prophesied failure or who openly ridiculed the idea.

The Croakers are in retreat.

Florence Earle Coates Pessimist, The............................. Ben King Philosopher, A............................. John Kendrick Bangs Philosophy for Croakers....................

PHILOSOPHY FOR CROAKERS

A Lesson from History; Borrowed Feathers; Can You Sing a Song?; If You Can't Go Over or Under, Go Round; Philosophy for Croakers; Swellitis; The Glad Song; The Unmusical Soloist; Two Raindrops.

Certain croakers even insinuate that the vice-admiral hesitates to organise the resistance, but we will not listen to them, and are on the whole full of confidence and resolution.

" Then all ye fearful folk, dismayed By threatened shortage of supplies, Let not your anxious hearts be swayed By croakers or their dismal cries; But, from Penzance to Galashiels, From Abertillery to Crieff, Remember that "one pound of eels Is better than a loin of beef.

"And here I am just in the act of annihilating with a logical stroke a multitude of grumblers and croakers.

There are croakers in every country, always boding its ruin.

After all, in spite of the croakers, this festival could not have been much better-timed, the delicate blossoms which mark the period are usually in perfection on this day, and it is not long before they are past their prime.

Even in Chicago, croakers were not wanting to predict that the railroad would monopolize all the trade of the place.

Such astounding facts as these the industrious Buckle of the year 3000, intent upon a history of our American civilization, will quote to the croakers of that day as samples of our nineteenth-century barbarism.

Let the croakers remember the remarkable words of the Tory Lord, Belmore, the planter's friend, and be silent"The resources of this fine island will never be fully developed until slavery ceases."

Let the croakers remember the remarkable words of the Tory Lord, Belmore, the planter's friend, and be silent"The resources of this fine island will never be fully developed until slavery ceases."

Had any one then asked as to the possibilities of a reconstruction of the severed Union, the answer would probably have been not much unlike the predictions of the croakers of to-day who clamor for acceptance of the Davisian olive-branch and an acknowledgment of the fact of Secession.

" Shall we advise the Tadpole to get his tail cut off, as a badge of the reptile nature in him, and to achieve the higher sphere of the Croakers at a single hop?

O'er wasting care let croakers whine, Care we'll defy at forty-nine.

To be seen by strangers, to have her face unveiled, to sit in public assemblies, to study sciences and arts, is contrary to nature, is an offense against purity, and tends to destroy her loveliness,said these inveterate croakers.

Because, you see, I was so sure I was going to succeed, as I had succeeded before against odds and in the face of all the croakers and prophets of misfortune had to say.

I have no doubt the croakers of that day told Shakespeare the same.

" Old croakers, deacons of the mire, That led the deep batrachiain choir, Uk!