" "Was Deacon Pratt in the habit of coming to read and pray with the sick?" "He pray!

We shall next present the schooner of Deacon Pratt to the reader on the 18th of that month, or three weeks and one day after she had sailed from the capital of Brazil.

A letter of Judge Pratt of the 15th December, 1851, dissenting from that opinion.

Roswell Gardiner was in the practice of visiting Mary Pratt on Sunday evenings; but he would almost as soon think of desecrating a church, as think of entering the deacon's abode, on the Sabbath, until after sunset, or "sundown," to use the familiar Americanism that is commonly applied to this hour of the day.

And where was Mary Pratt at that day and hour when Roswell was thus issuing his last orders at Sealer's Land; and what was her occupation, and what her thoughts?

Most of these are quiet, well-behaved members of the household; but one ancient shade, Aunt Pratt by name, seems to presume upon her age as old people sometimes will, and is really quite hard to get along with.

It would be representing deacon Pratt as a worse man than he actually was, to say that this sudden death had no effect on his feelings.

Thereupon he asked me if I could get the people to arise against the Spaniards and carry on a rapid campaign." As we have seen, Dewey sent only one telegram to Pratt about Aguinaldo.