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The legal phraseology now in use, "Know all men by 

 these presents," does not seem to have been observed in 

 those by-gone days ; nor yet the one substituted for it, 

 doubtless by some miserable, disappointed, and cross- 

 grained old bachelor, "Know one woman, so that all 

 men will be sure to know." 



The following interesting narrative is from " Travels 

 in New England and New York," by President Dwight, 

 of Yale College : 



" Not many years after the county of Litchfield began 

 to be settled by the English, a strange Indian came one 

 day into an inn in the town of Litchfield in the dusk of 

 the evening, and requested the hostess to furnish him 

 with some drink and supper. At the same time he ob- 

 served that he could pay for neither, as he had no success 

 in hunting, but promised payment as soon as he should 

 meet with better fortune. The hostess refused him both 

 the drink and the supper ; called him a lazy, drunken, 

 good-for-nothing fellow, and told him that she did not 

 work so hard herself, to throw away her earnings upon 

 such creatures as he was. 



"A man who sat by, and observed that the Indian, then 

 turning about to leave so inhospitable a place, showed by 

 his countenance that he was suffering very severely from 

 want and weariness, directed the hostess to supply him 

 what he needed, and engaged to pay the bill himself. 



" She did so. When the Indian had finished his sup- 

 per, he turned to his benefactor, thanked him, and as- 

 sured him that he should remember his kindness, and, 

 whenever he was able, would faithfully recompense it. 



" For the present, he observed, he could only reward him 



