fair and of could not have been more on tlie of the gallant tribe of than was that of the kind hearted fair ones of new on the de of their every maiden fondly crammed the j of her hero with and nuts � many a copper ri i was exchanged and crooked sixpence broken in pledge of eternal constancy � the expedition sails and there remain to this day some love � verses written on that occasion sufficiently and incomprehensible to confound the whole universe but it moving sight to see the how they hung about the van � for he was a jolly rosy faced bachelor fond of his joke and withal a desperate rogue among the women fain would have kept him to comfort them while the army was away for besides what i have said of it is no more than justice to add that he was a kind hearted soul noted for his attentions in comforting wives during the absence of their husbands � and this made him to be very much regarded by the honest of the city but nothing could keep the from following the heels of the old governor whom he loved as he did his very soul � so all the young and giving every one of them that had good teeth and rosy lips a dozen hearty be departed loaded with their kind wishes nor was the departure of the gallant peter among the least causes of public distress though the old governor was by no means indulgent to the follies and of his subjects yet some how or other he had become strangely popular among tbe people there is something i popularity op so in personal bravery that with the common mass of mankind it takes the lead of most other merits the simple folk of new looked upon peter as a of his wooden leg that of his martial was regarded with reverence and admiration every old had a of miraculous stories to tell about the exploits of wherewith he his children of a long winter night and on which he dwelt with as much delight and as do our honest country on the hardy adventures of old general or as he is familiarly termed old put during our glorious revolution � not an individual but verily believed the old governor was a match for himself and there was even a story told with great mystery and under the rose of his having shot the devil with a silver bullet one dark stormy night as he was sailing in a through hell gate � but this i do not record as being an absolute fact � perish the man who would let fall a drop to the pure stream of history certain it is not an old woman in new but considered peter as a tower of strength and rested satisfied that the public welfare was secure so long as he was in be city it is surprising that they looked bis upon his departure as a sore affliction with heavy hearts they dragged at the heels of hia troop as they marched down to the river side to the governor from the stern of his gave a short but truly address to his citizens wherein he recommended to like loyal and subjects � to go to church regularly on sundays and to mind their business all the week besides � that the women should be dutiful and affectionate to their after nobody s concerns but their own all and morning � and carrying short tongues and long that the men should from in public concerns the cares of government to the officers appointed to support them � staying at home like good citizens making money for themselves and getting children for the benefit of their country that the should look well to the public interest � not the poor nor indulging the rich � not their security to devise new laws but faithfully those which were already made � rather bending their attention to prevent evil than to punish it ever civil should consider themselves more as of public morals than rat employed to public finally final departure of the he them one and all high and low rich and poor to conduct themselves as well as they could them that if they and complied with this golden rule there was no danger but that they all conduct themselves well enough � this done he gave them a paternal the sounded a most loving farewell with trumpet the jolly put up a shout of triumph and the invincible swept down the bay the good people of new crowded down to the battery � that resort firom whence so many a tender prayer has been so many a fair hand waved so many a look been cast by love sick after the bark bearing her adventurous to distant � here the watched with straining eyes the gallant as it slowly floated down the bay and when the intervening land at the shut it from their sight gradually dispersed with silent tongues and downcast countenances a heavy gloom hung over the late bustling city � the honest smoked their pipes in profound casting many a wistful look to the weather cock on the church of saint and ail the old women having no longer the presence of peter to it arrives in the them gathered their children home and the doors and windows every evening at sun down in the mean while the of tlie sturdy peter proceeded on its voyage and after about as many storms and water and and other horrors and phenomena as generally adventurous in perilous voyages of the kind and after a severe from that deplorable and malady called sea sickness the whole arrived safely in the without so much as dropping anchor and giving his wearied ships time to breathe after so long in the ocean the peter pursued his course up the 