And their way through the forest ne’er lioux.”
After two more verses in a similar strain, Mr. Adams concludes as follows:
“Now doesn’t this spelling look cyiouxrious?
’Tis enough to make anyone fyiouxrious!
So a word to the wise!
Pray our language revise
With orthography not so injiouxrious.”
SEBA SMITH.
Before the close of the last century a famous humorist was born in the town of Buckfield, in the State of Maine. Seba Smith was his name, yet during his entire life few persons knew him by that title. Speaking of him as “Majer Jack Downing,” however, instantly recalls him to mind, and he at once becomes well known.