The Arkansas banner., 1843-10-07

szssss chairs. ''l am quite knocked up--deasi beat, Markn
 " ou won't say that to-morrow morning. sir" retnrned Mir Taploy; ''nor even to- night, sir. when you've made trial of this !" With which ke produced very large tslul- bier. piled ID ie ihe brim with little blocks of clear transparent ice, through which one or two slices of lemon, and golden iquid of delicious appoaanee, appeared rom 1T lle still depths below, 10 the lovng eye ol use spectator.
 ssWhat do you call t'sis 7 said Martin.
 But Mr. Tapley made no answer; merely pllnnafne a reef into the miStare-which caused a pleasant coimmohon among the pieces afsiee-and signilying by an eypres- sive gesture that il was to be pumped up through through that that agency the ehTiPt''fod drinker.
 Martin took the glass, with ali astenished lsok applied his lips to the reed; and cast up his eyes once in ecstncy. He paused no. more until the goblet was drained to the last drop.
 ssIhere, sir!' said Mark, taking it from him with triumphant face; ssif ever you should happen to be dead beat again, when ain't in the way, all you've got 10 do is, to ask the nearest man to go and fetch cobbler.0
 s,To go and fetch a cobbler!" repeated Martin
 s.This wonderfulinvention, ri, ? said Mark, tenderly patting thesempty glass, s'ls called a cobblcr. Sherry cobblor, when you name 1t long; cobbler, when you name it short Now you're equal to having your boots took of, and are, ill every particular worth mention ing, another man.
 Having delivered himself of this solemn preface, he brought the boot-laek.
 s'NIind am rot going to relapse, Mark, ? said Marlin; 'sbut, good Heaven, if we should be leitin some wild part of this coun- try without goods or money!o
 "Well, sirln replied the iinPerturbable Tap lev, s4rcm what we've seen already, don't know whether, under those cirounstances, We. shouldn't do better in the wild parts than ill the tame ones.''
 s.Oh, Tom Pinch, Tom Pinchn' said Mar tin, i'll thoughtful toae; sswhat would l give to be agaln beside you, and able 10 hear your voice, though it were even in the old . bedroom atPecksnia''s p
 ssOh, Dragon, Dragon p echoed Mark eheerfully, ssif there want any water between you and me, and nothing taint-hearted like In going back, l don't know that mightn't say the same. But here an l, Dragon, in New York, America; and there are you, i'll Wiltshire, Europe and there's fortune to make, Dragon, and a beautiful young lady to make it for; and whenever you go to see the Monument, Dragon, you mustn't give iD on the door steps, or you'll never get up to the topi''
 @Wiscly said, Mark cried Martin. aWe must look forwardn
 s.ln all the stery-books as ever read, sir, the people as looked backward was tuned into stones,n replied Mark ssand my opinion always was, that they brought t en them selves, and It served lem right. wish you good night sir, and pleasant dreamst'' p Q.
 @They must be of home, then,2 said Mar tin, as he iaY down ia bed.
 s.So say, too,n whispered Mark Tapley, when he was out of hearing and in his own room ssforif there don't come time aforc we're well out of this, when there'l be a little more credit in keeping up one's iollity, Pm United Statesman p
 Leaving. them to blend and mngle in their sleep the shadows of objects atar off, as they take fantastic shapes upon the wall in the dim light of thought without control, be il the part of this slight ehroHicle-a dream within dream--as rapidly to change the scene, and cross the ocean to the English shore!