Around the tea-table . t of the letter, or so willfullymisspelled the direction on the envelope, and put itin such a distant post-office, and looked so inno-cent when you met them that it shall be for themost part a dead secret till the books are opened;and when that is done, we do not think these aban- ANONYMOUS LETTERS. 2J$ doned souls will wait to have their condemnationread, but, ashamed to meet the announcement, willleap pell-mell into the pit, crying, We wrotethem. If, since the world stood, there have been com-posed and sent off by mail or private postmen1,600,378 anonymous letters dero
Around the tea-table . t of the letter, or so willfullymisspelled the direction on the envelope, and put itin such a distant post-office, and looked so inno-cent when you met them that it shall be for themost part a dead secret till the books are opened;and when that is done, we do not think these aban- ANONYMOUS LETTERS. 2J$ doned souls will wait to have their condemnationread, but, ashamed to meet the announcement, willleap pell-mell into the pit, crying, We wrotethem. If, since the world stood, there have been com-posed and sent off by mail or private postmen1,600,378 anonymous letters derogatory of cha-racter, then 1,600,378 were vicious and you are compelled to choose between writing aletter with false signature vitriolic of any mans in-tegrity or any womans honor on the one hand, andthe writing a letter with a red-hot nail dipped in ad-ders poison on a sheet woven of lepers scales,choose the latter. It were healthier, nobler, andcould better endure the test of mans review andGods CHAPTER XLVII. BRAWN OR BRAIN. GOVERNOR WISEMAN (our oracular friendwho talked in the style of an oration) waswith us this evening at the tea-table, and we werementioning the fact that about thirty colleges lastsummer in the United States contested for thechampionship in boat-racing. About two hundredthousand young ladies could not sleep nights, soanxious were thev to know whether Yale or YVil-Hams would be the winner. The newspapers gavethree and four columns to the particulars. Thetelegraph wires thrilled the victory to all parts ofthe land. Some of the religious papers condemn-ed the whole affair, enlarging upon the strainedwrists, broken blood-vessels and barbaric animal-ism of men who ought to have been rowing theirrace with the Binomial Theorem for one oar andKarnes Elements of Criticism for the other. For the most part, we sympathized with the boys,and confess that at our hotel we kept careful watchof the bulletin to see whose boat came in are di
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