Stop and ponder!—Anaconda!
Big and fearful, big and fearful,
BIG AND FEARFUL ANACONDA!
Our ever-welcome New Haven friend re-appears this month, with the following jest:—
The other day lawyer JONES, of Hartford, Conn., wrote a letter to my friend PLOPP, whom he supposed to be in Hartford at the time. The missive was forwarded to PLOPP, who is in Newport. It requested him to 'step in and settle.' PLOPP replied:
My dear JONES:—
Yours of 10th is rec'd. I reply,—
1st. I can't step in, because I am not in Hartford.
2d. I can't settle, because I am not in the least riled.
3d. I notice you spell Hartford without a t. This is an error. Allow me, as per example, to suggest the correct orthography, to wit, Hartford.