In my next I may probably have to hail you Grandmama; or to felicitate you on the nuptials of pretty Mary, who, whatever the beaux of Malta may think of her, I can only remember her round shining face, and her "O William!""dear William!" when we visited her the other day at school.

"Simpleton!" thought I: "must women always have beaux in order to be calm about the future?" Mr. G. came on board in a few minutes, bringing us from his wife an invitation of welcome to her house.

I should be doing injustice to the hospitable settlers of Hickory Creek were I to pass by without notice an entertainment with which they honored our Chicago beaux about this time.

Here are some letters and some verses; the beaux at White's may read them if they will, and then throw them away.

The carriages were ranged several rows deep, and surrounded by young beaux on foot and horseback; any one might have been excused for imagining himself in an European city.

You are surprised, doubtless, that Katy should have so many lovers as three; you have not then lived in a new country where there are generally half-a-dozen marriageable men to every marriageable woman, and where, since the law of demand and supply has no application, every girl finds herself beset with more beaux than a heartless flirt could wish for.