. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. A Stiff ,it. The first time we lighted a fire in our new abode, a large serpentrame down the chimney, which I looked upon as a <;ood , as Mrs P. is not partial to snakes, and the heat is supposed 5 1 *fcS^.-,|il ) H*--^. Emigration—Meeting a Settler. to attract those reptiles, we have wiiii fires ever since, ulid beasts, we hear them hovvimg and roaring round the fen^. A LETTER FROM AN EMIGRANT. 395f every from duk till , but we have only becfc incon-venienced by one Lion The tirst
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. A Stiff ,it. The first time we lighted a fire in our new abode, a large serpentrame down the chimney, which I looked upon as a <;ood , as Mrs P. is not partial to snakes, and the heat is supposed 5 1 *fcS^.-,|il ) H*--^. Emigration—Meeting a Settler. to attract those reptiles, we have wiiii fires ever since, ulid beasts, we hear them hovvimg and roaring round the fen^. A LETTER FROM AN EMIGRANT. 395f every from duk till , but we have only becfc incon-venienced by one Lion The tirst time he came, in order i\ get ridot the brute peaceably, we turned out an old ewe, with which he was»vell satistic d ;—but ever since he cumes to us as regular as clock-work for his mutton ; and if we do not soon contrive to cut hisacquaintance, we sliall hardly have a sheep in the flock. It wouldhave been easy to shoot him, being well provided with muskets, butBarnaby mistook our remnant of gunpowder for onion seed, andsowed it all in the kitchen garden. We did try to trap him into apitfall ; but after twice catching Mrs P., and every one of the childrenin turn, it was given up. They are now, however, perfectly at easeabout the animal, for they never stir out of doors at all, and to m
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