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pressly to hide it, and some of the officers looked at us 

 so suspiciously that we withdrew. 



For the sake of home associations, I called on my fair 

 countrywoman ; dined at Mr. Hall's, and in the afternoon 

 went to the cockpit, a large circular building handsomely 

 proportioned, with a high seat for the judges, who rang 

 a bell as a signal for the fight, when commenced a clam- 

 our : "I offer five dollars!" I offer twenty," &:c. ; 

 and I am happy to say that in this crowded den I saw 

 but one man whom I had ever seen before ; from there 

 I went to the bullfight, and then to the theatre. The 

 reader will admit that I made a brilliant beginning to 

 the year 1840. 



