14 THE TIM BUNKER PAPERS. 



&quot; Deacon, does not this make you think of the Rohan ? &quot; 

 He will not purchase this year. 



Conservative as he is, there is manifest progress with 

 Mr. Bunker, and a real improvement is sure to find its 

 way, in due time, to his farm. The debt and credit ac 

 count of his adventure in pursuit of the blackberry plants 

 as he read it in the Deacon s Agriculturist, struck Tim 

 full in the face. He has not stopped thinking of it yet, 

 and we hope to record his name, before a great while, up 

 on our list of subscribers. 



P. S. The seed has borne fruit. We received the fol 

 lowing letter this morning : 



HOOKERTOWX, Coxx., April 15, 1856. 



DEAB SIR : Inclosed please find $1 for the Agricul 

 turist for one year. TIMOTHY BUNKER. 



O. JUDD, Esq., New York City. 



No. 4. TIM BUNKER S VIEW OF THE 

 BIRD LAW. 



Jeremiah Sparrowgrass left Hookertown for the com 

 mercial metropolis at the tender age of sixteen, thinking 

 that his salvation would be effected and his fortune made 

 forever, if he could find a situation as clerk in a dry good 

 store. He found in the city the object of his lofty ambi 

 tion, and, after a little roughing it, was duly installed as 

 errand boy and professor of small jobs in a respectable 

 establishment on Broadway. At the age of twenty-one 

 Jeremiah is a clerk with a salary in the establishment 

 where he commenced his mercantile life ; a youth of prom 

 ise in the esteem of his friends, and not slow in his own 



