few of them can spell. Here's a man don't

know how to spell his own name. And this shows

how the race over there on the little island is degenerating.

It was not so in other days. Shakspere,

for instance, not only knew how to spell his

own name, but—and this is another proof of his

superiority to his contemporaries—he could spell

it in half a dozen different ways.

This Beaver is a clever fellow, and we get on

first rate together. He is going to California for