A YANKEE TRADE. 



Old Amizah Allyn said that he would stand a treat 



As the noddler in his noddy swept the street. 



He was up behind a spike-tailed mare, and you should have 



seen her fly, 

 When he picked her up and trotted by singing "how is that 



for hi!" —Nutmeg Ballad. 



"Hen" Capen lived in Windsor, Conn. He was a 

 Yankee born and bred in Connecticnt, with a pedigree 

 that traced back to Barnard Capen, a man of Puri- 

 tanical principles, that landed in Dorchester, Mass., 

 in 1636. The said Barnard Capen did not take very 

 kindly to the rule of Charles I. in England, so like 

 thousands of others, for religion's sake, he abandoned 

 a home beyond the Atlantic for the wilds of America. 

 According to the returns shown by his descendants 

 the exchange proved a profitable one, although very 

 little of the world's goods clung to "Hen." The Puri- 

 tanical ideas were also bred out of his pedigree on 

 the way down to him, but what he lacked in steeple- 

 crowned hat and brown coat palaver, was more than 

 made up by a sunny disposition and a devil-may-care 

 sort of life which suited him to a T. 



Now, while "Hen" was a dyed-in-the-wool 

 Yankee, he was not one of the typical sort that you 

 will, from time to time, find labeled Uncle Sam or 

 Brother Jonathan in the daily papers, as he was 

 thickset and as bright as a button, with a ruddy face 

 and had, like Santa Claus 



