Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-05-01

prevent the outrage &c. The same
paper of April I'd says that bevy OF
soap locks, with others to the number
of between two and three hundred, re-
paired to the bull ring at the appointed
time, and were informed by a respecta-
bic colored resident of the neiehbor-
hood, that the weathe looking so much
like rain, the spanish gemmen had
concluded to postpone de gimnackstics
till de fts day Oh .4pril, 1885,
A WRESTLING YANKEE. ri
Some years since, a Yankee from
the land of notions travelling west
ward, found himself minus of cash, af-
ter his arrival at gainesville, Ohio
But Yankees are proverbial for tact,
and can turn their wits many ways
to supply the needful. So our Yankee
traveller, being keen at whistling, per-
ambulated the village with his hands
stuck in empty pockets, whistling
variety of national airs, much to the a.
musement of all. Seeing that his en-
ploy took with the multitude, he set
himself up as teacher Of the Science
of Whistling, and reasoned very grave
ly, that as many multitudes would
whistle, it would be well for them to
learn the science,-rightly Judging that
it ought to be done well, i. e. upon
scientific principles. He believed that
there were far more persons who could
learn this science than was generally
supposed-that there was NO reason
why the female sex, with acknowledge
ed better voices than males, should be
denied the privilege of whistling; and
descanted largely upon the advantage
to be derived from thorough knowI-
edge of the science. In short, aschool
was started at once, land many a young
limb ofthe law, medical student, and
clerks, with their ladies', were. subscri-
bers. The price was fixed at fifty
cents per couple, and always paid lii
advance, by which our Yankee friend
well spliced bis pockets. aro-'
The evening for the first lesson arriv-
with it a goodly number OF
gents and ladies', at hotel waiting the
promised instruction. The prelimina-
ry observation was made that no one
would be assured of any improvement,
without they carry out the precise in
structions, and obeyed the commands
of the teacher.
All were standing upon the floor on
the tiptoe Of expectation, when our
Yankee give forth his first command
with great gravity: Prepare to puck
er' All anticipated the next COM
mand, |p4cker!' and instantly a roar
of laughter shook the house to its foun-
dation.
1t is unnecessary to say thatthe next
day our Yankee traveller was seen
vending his way westward, with full
pockets, and whistling many merry
tune, while those who had taken their
first lesson in the science Of whistling
were hailed at every turn in the street
with the by-words-'Prepare to puck
er!'-s Puckern M 1900
.o -e3e- ra s.a -
Gan at Sundonan. 1t is wei! known
to our readers that it is, the practice to
give morning and evening gun at
the military station at West Point, the
reports of which, (says the Newburgh
Telegraph unless a strong northerly
wind prevails, are plainly heard in this
village. A few days since, gentleman
on the Point took into his service a
verdant son of the Emerald Isle. On
the first day ofhis service, he was star
tied by the sound of the evening gun,
as it reverborated through the High
lands, and awakened the mountains
echoes, and anxiously in
CURED of his employer the cause of the
and was told that it was the
shutdown gum Och, bless me- ex-
claimed Pat, sand does the sun make
such divil of thunder as that on 60
ing down in this couuthry''
-e0e-
st. Patrick's t,co Heads. A gentle
man travelling in Ireland short time
since, was DESTROYS of seeing some of
the sanity relics belonging to con-
vent; and or being shown by the
priest two apparently very old skulls,
one that Of child, the other resembling
that Of a grown person, asked to whom
they belonged, when the priest replied,
The larger one was that of st. Pat
rick, The smaller that of the same saint
when boy