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ever I stooped down with the intent of handling his legs. 1 
wished this adept good morning.” 
We have no time to follow our author, although the excursion 
would be pleasant enough,on “the road,” in “the carriage,” in 
“the field,” and on “ the course.” In each he is at home, an 
old and skilful hand; and he describes the pleasures of each, and 
points out the fooleries and dangers with so much propriety and 
good humour, that we must again recommend our readers, w hose 
time is their own, to accompany him: they will find him a very 
agreeable and instructive fellow-traveller ; and we do trust that the 
worthy octogenarian may have life, and strength, and spirits 
enough again to face the public, and especially that he may ride 
his favourite hobby to the desired end of this journey—the vindi¬ 
cation of their rights whom nature has made our slaves, but has 
likewise commanded us to protect. 
The Effect of the Hunter's Tally-ho. 
On the day of celebrating the rending of the veil of the temple, 
when our Saviour gave up the ghost, the people have large ham¬ 
mers, with w'hich they beat the benches, and have sheets of tin, 
&c. which they shake to imitate the noise of thunder as near as 
possible. An English colonel, in the republican service, on this 
occasion thought he could add to the scene by imitating the 
English fox-hunter's tally-ho, which he did with so much 
strength and clearness of lungs, as quite to exceed any noise of 
other persons, and gained by it so much of the curate's good 
will, who imagined his religion must be in proportion to his vehe¬ 
mence of utterance, that, after the service, he came to him, and 
squeezing his hand, thanked him most cordially for his kind ad¬ 
dition to the devotions of the night.— Cochrane's Columbia , 
vol. ii, p. 336. 
Turkish Humanity to Animals. 
Much is said of the humanity which Mussulmen display to¬ 
wards animals. A singular proof of it occurred during this siege 
(of Athens). Finding them suffering from thirst, the besieged 
lowered a number of asses, &c. into the hands of the enemy, 
choosing rather that they should live in the possession of the in¬ 
fidel than perish miserably with themselves. It is even more 
singular, that two of these animals were actually preserved alive 
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