Queer.—A country editor, having no deaths in his paper, put in this notice: “Several deaths unavoidably deferred.”
Our Correspondence.
Notes, letters and billets, puzzles and charades, cuts and compliments, praise and blame, are here before us, for which we return our hearty thanks to our little correspondents. We insert the following, which is all we can do this month. We are now winding off all our stories for the close of the year, and are preparing lots of pleasant things for the first of January. So, gentle readers, all, pray hold us excused, if we have omitted particularly to acknowledge any of your kind favors.
Sheboygan Falls, W. T., 1843.
Robert Merry, Esq.:
My Dear old Friend,—Your “Museum” has been very amusing, as well as instructive, to me and my little brothers, during the last year. And, my dear father having made us a new-year’s present of one dollar, I think the best use we can make of it is to send it to you, for which we wish you to send us the Museum during the year 1843; and, by so doing, you will very much enhance the pleasure of your little friends in the wilds of Wisconsin. G. F. C.
A “CONSTANT READER” sends us the following charade:
When walking by the water’s side,