Mrs. Marmaduke talked tediously of the trials and responsibilities of conscientious mothers who have grown-up daughters to provide for, was given to frequent freshets of tears, consumed many "nervous pills" of the retired-clergyman-whose-sands-of-life-have-nearly-run-out sort, and netted bead purses for the Select Home for Poor Gentlemen's Daughters.

On her second trip after I had bought into her, returning from Baltimore to Philadelphia by the way of the Delaware and Chesapeake canal, while off the mouth of the Susquehannah, she struck, as I suppose, a sunken tree, brought down by a heavy freshet in that river.

The freshet at Bangor, Me., in the spring of 1846, is thus described in "Forest Life and Forest Trees:" The first injury to the city was from the breaking away of a small section of the jam, which came down and pressed against the ice on our banks.

"Yes, and the spring freshets from the northern water-shed all held in a reservoirnone going to waste!

She, my wife, drifted from me, and was drowned in a freshet near Orleans.

"Going in" is going up into the woods, you know, to cut and haul for the winter,up, sometimes, a hundred miles deep,in in the fall and out in the spring; whole gangs of us shut up there sometimes for six months, then down with the freshets on the logs, and all summer to work the farm,a merry sort of life when you get used to it, Johnny; but it was a great while ago, and it seems to me as if it must have been very cold.

The fields have crept up to the very summit of the hills, and even the stream that came down from the mountain has vanished away, save when the rains, or the melting snows send it in a freshet over the rocks where, when I was a boy, it was cascading always.

Wood, fit for bridging, was often not to be had, and in such cases the only resource was to halt for the freshets to subsidea matter in the case of the headwaters of the Chariton, for instance, of over three weeks' delay.

He said it was rather a difficult thing to go and see a freshet without getting wetespecially for a girl.