"With that, the little ragged cuss sot up a big laugh, and put his thumb on his nose and wiggled his fingers at me. Do you see any thing green,' ses he, eh, hoss?'"-Letter ix. p. 77.

"Yes sir," ses he, "I never steals nor cheats no body."

"That's right," ses I. That's a good boy."

I went on smokin, and in a few minits, when I thought he was gone, I heard the little feller behind me agin. "What," ses I.

"My sister died last week," ses he, " and we're very poor, and my mammy's sick, and I can't make money enough to buy medicine for the baby————”

"Well," ses I, "I don't want no more matches, but here's a quarter to add to your profits to-day."

"Thank you, sir," ses he, and he went off agin thankin me, for the quarter.

Poor little feller, thinks I, how much better to give him that quarter of a dollar than to smoke it out in segars. He'll go home to his poor mother, happy, and if he has felt any temptation to be a rogue, the recollection of my kindness will give him courage to be honest. I hadn't got done thinkin about him before here he was, back agin.

"Daddy died last week," ses he, " and sister Betsy got her foot skalded, and we haint had no bred to eat not for a week-ever sense daddy died-and

"Look here," says I, "you better go before you kill off all your relations: I begin to think you're a little imposter."

"Oh, no sir, daddy is ded," ses he, "and mammy and sister lives all alone, and mammy told me to ax you if you would come and see her and give her some money."

I begun to smell a rat, and ses I, "I'll see your mammy to the mischief fust, and if I'd had the same opinion of you that I have now, I'd never gin you the fust red cent.'

With that the little ragged cus sot up a big laugh, and put his thum on his nose and wiggled his fingers at me. "Do you see any thing green," ses he, "eh, hos? What do you think of me now, eh?

Would

Would you like

to buy another levy's worth of matches? You see," ses he, "I'm one of the b'hoys!-a out and out Fell's Pinter, by J ;" and then he ripped out a oath that made the hair stand on my hed, and away he went.

I felt like I was completely tuck in, and I never sed another word. But I made up my mind when I gin another quarter away to encourage honesty, it would be to a different sort of candidate; and, throwing the stump of my segar into the water, I left the place and tuck the fust omminybus for the Exchange. I'm done with Baltimore, and shall start to-morrow for the city of Brotherly Love. So no more at present from

Your frend til deth,

Jos. JONES.

LETTER X.

Filladelfy, May 23, 1845. To MR. THOMPSON:- -Dear Sir-You may be sure I was tired when I got back to the Exchange after my visit to Fell's Pint, last night. I couldn't help but think how I had been tuck in by that bominable little match seller, and I felt rite mad at myself for bein sich a fool.

I had a fust rate appetite for my supper, and by the politeness of Mr. Dorsey-who, tween you and me, is one of the cleverest fellers I've met with sense I left Georgia-I got a invitation to take tea in the lady's supper room. You know when the grand caraven was in Pineville last year, the manager charged a thrip extra for admittin people when they was feedin the annimals. Well, it was worth the money; and if Mr. Dorsey had charged me double price for eatin at the lady's ordinary as they call it, I wouldn't grumbled a bit. Ther was a heap of ladys at the table, rangin from little school galls up to old grandmothers, all dressed out as fine as a fiddle, and lookin as pleasin and happy as the Georgia galls do at a Fourth of July barbycue; and sich a gabblin as they did keep I never heard before. Jest over opposite to me was a bridle party from Virginny, what had jest been gettin married and had come to Baltimore to see ther honey-moon. It was really a interestin party, and it almost tuck my appetite from me to look at 'em, they was so happy and so lovin. They was only married 'bout a week, and of course the world was all moonshine and hummin-birds and roses to them. They felt like ther was no other inhabitants in creation, and that all that was beautiful and bright and good on earth, was