It was the scene of Crusoe at the wreck, if I remember rightly, that so bewitched my blacksmith.

Sikander approved of this invention, and collected all the blacksmiths and artisans in the country to construct a thousand machines of this description with the utmost expedition, and as soon as they were completed, he prepared for action.

He cut out a blacksmith, and a painter, and several young farmers, and father said he never in his life had such a time to keep a straight face, as when Jacobs came to him this spring, and said he was going to marry old Miser Jerrold's daughter.

" "I dunno w'at 's de matter wid dat boy," mused the blacksmith over his apple dumpling.

I once saw a sturdy blacksmith in the prime of life, sitting in the midst of a group of savages, attempting to expound to them the mysteries of our holy redemptionperplexing his own brains, as well as those of his auditors, with the most incomprehensible and absurd opinions.