The Arkansas advocate., 1831-03-16
Yours with steam,
 EN0CH TIMBERT0ES.

T ConneetGcee Storg.-lt is well known thatin the good old days of our fathers, when New
 England was truly the land of steady habits. l there would occasionally spring up volatile and fun-loving character, whose disposition and 1 habits with the upright and conscientious bear ing of the pufitans formed q striking contrast. There were too farmers of this cast who lived 1 very near each other; one was the owner of some dozen of.yery fine sheep, who having a decided antipathy to confinement, would some l times tresspass on the enclosures ef their mas ters neighbor. The other having caught them in one of these overt acts. determinedto to infict summary vengeance on them and their owner.
 With this intent he proceeded to catch them. and running his knife through one of their hind legs, between the tender and the bone, mmed- lately above the knee joint, put the other leg through the hole. In this condition, the wooly flock decamped, leaving one quarter less tracks thanWhen they came. The feeder ofsheep kept [ his own connseE and soon after, his neighbors Ilogs having broken or dug into his enclosures lie took advantage of this opportunity for retalla- ton, by cutting their mouths from ear to ear
 s t'ii, way the foui-iooted grunters, raherchop fallen, made their way to their own quarters. The owner of the swine soon made his appear anec in great rage, declaring his hogs were Eruned, that he would have redress. His neigh | Dor made answer that 1t was not he who rnned thems For, says he, the fact is, friend, didn't cut open them are hogs mouths, but seein my sheep running on three legs, they split their mouths laughio. ."-faed61pg Gaz. 1de WMy rbcr.-Aneccentricbar barber open ed a shop under the wall of the kings bench prison. The windows being broken when he entered it. he mended them with paper, on which appeared, "Shave for a penny with the usual invitation to customers and over his door was scfawled the following poetry;
 Here lives Jemmy Wright,
 Slaves as well as any in England, Almost--not quite.
 "Foote who liked any thing eccentric, saw these inscriptions, and hoping to extract some wit from the author whomhe justly concluded to be m odd character. he pulled of his hat, and thursting his head through paper pane into the shop caledout, sIsJ Jemmy Wright athome?' The barber immediately forced his own head through another pane into the street, and repli- ed, "No sir, he has just pep p out. .''-Foote laugh | ed heartily and gave the man a guinea.
 Inscription on a village doctors sign in Devon shire:
 I cures C goose, my wife cures the gandcr. As our readers may find some difficulty in making this out tits necessary to explain that the good man intended to make known, that he cur ed agues and his wife cured the jam.dfte.
 eiodesty.-A dalnsel being sent to a music | shop by her master for some cat gut, ashamed to pronounce the vulgar word, and to show her gen tllity, asked the house-keeper for some puss's bo7Oets.-[ The foregoing reminds us of a young lady, who went into a grocery and inquired for "iadies dsiights--by more ordinary people call
 ed skisses.'l
 Gropity and Grovitation.--A Aschoolnasterwho was as fond of the use of his graa as 1Le use af