M.

Macrobii, their diplomacy, 432.

Mahomet, got nearer Sinai than some, 422.

Mahound, his filthy gobbets, 400.

Mangum, Mr., speaks to the point, 418.

Manichæan, excellently confuted, 416.

Man-trees, grew where, 441.

Mares'-nests, finders of, benevolent, 427.

Marshfield, 443, 447.

Martin, Mr. Sawin used to vote for him, 448.

Mason and Dixon's line, slaves north of, 418.

Mass, the, its duty defined, 418.

Massachusetts on her knees, 392 something mentioned in connection with, worthy the attention of tailors, 410 citizen of, baked, boiled, and roasted (_nefandum!_), 438.

Masses, the, used as butter by some, 411.

M. C., an invertebrate animal, 413.

Mechanics' Fair, reflections suggested at, 433.

Mentor, letters of, dreary, 427.

Mephistopheles at a nonplus, 420.

Mexican blood, its effect in raising price of cloth, 442.

Mexican polka, 400.

Mexicans charged with various breaches of etiquette, 398 kind feelings beaten into them, 425.

Mexico, no glory in overcoming, 410.

Military glory spoken disrespectfully of, 396, _note_ militia treated still worse, _ib._

Milk-trees, growing still, 440.

Mills for manufacturing gabble, how driven, 415.

Milton, an unconscious plagiary, 409, _note_ a Latin verse of, cited, 422.

Missions, a profitable kind of, 423.

Monarch, a pagan, probably not favored in philosophical experiments, 394.

Money-trees desirable, 441 that they once existed shown to be variously probable, _ib._

Montaigne, a communicative old Gascon, 427.

Monterey, battle of, its singular chromatic effect on a species of two-headed eagle, 414.

Moses held up vainly as an example, 422 construed by Joe Smith, _ib._

Myths, how to interpret readily, 432.

N.

Naboths, Popish ones, how distinguished, 401.

Nation, rights of, proportionate to size, 398.

National pudding, its effect on the organs of speech, a curious physiological fact, 401.

Nephelim, not yet extinct, 453.

New England overpoweringly honored, 412 wants no more speakers, _ib._ done brown by whom, _ib._ her experience in beans beyond Cicero's, 432.

Newspaper, the, wonderful, 425 a strolling theatre, _ib._ thoughts suggested by tearing wrapper of, 426 a vacant sheet, _ib._ a sheet in which a vision was let down, _ib._ wrapper to a bar of soap, _ib._ a cheap impromptu platter, _ib._

New York, letters from, commended, 427.

Next life, what, 421.

Niggers, 390 area of abusing, extended, 410 Mr. Sawin's opinions of, 449.

Ninepence a day low for murder, 395.

No, a monosyllable, 401 hard to utter, _ib._

Noah, enclosed letter in bottle, probably, 427.

Nornas, Lapland, what, 441.

North, has no business, 419 bristling, crowded off roost, 430.

North Bend, geese inhumanly treated at, 431 mentioned, 443.

North star, a proposition to indict, 420.

O.

Off ox, 429.

Officers, miraculous transformation in character of, 399 Anglo-Saxon, come very near being anathematized, _ib._

O'Phace, Increase D., Esq., speech of, 408.

Oracle of Fools, still respectfully consulted, 408.

Orion, becomes commonplace, 426.

Orrery, Lord, his letters (lord!), 427.

Ostracism, curious species of, 408.

P.

Palestine, 399.

Palfrey, Hon. J. G., 408, 412, 413 (a worthy representative of Massachusetts).

Pantagruel recommends a popular oracle, 408.

Panurge, his interview with Goatsnose, 432.

Papists, female, slain by zealous Protestant bomb-shell, 442.

Paralipomenon, a man suspected of being, 431.

Paris, liberal principles safe as far away as, 422.

_Parliamentum Indoctorum_ sitting in permanence, 408.

Past, the, a good nurse, 417.

Patience, sister, quoted, 396.

Paynims, their throats propagandistically cut, 400.

Penelope, her wise choice, 404.

People, soft enough, 423 want correct ideas, 439.

Pepin, King, 428.

Periwig, 430.

Persius, a pithy saying of, 411, _note_.

Pescara, Marquis, saying of, 393.

Peter, Saint, a letter of (_post-mortem_), 428.

Pharisees, opprobriously referred to, 422.

Philippe, Louis, in pea-jacket, 425.

Phlegyas, quoted, 421.

Phrygian language, whether Adam spoke it, 394.

Pilgrims, the, 410.

Pillows, constitutional, 413.

Pinto, Mr., some letters of his commended, 428.

Pisgah, an impromptu one, 441.

Platform, party, a convenient one, 439.

Plato, supped with, 427 his man, 431.

Pleiades, the, not enough esteemed, 426.

Pliny, his letters not admired, 427.

Plotinus, a story of, 417.

Plymouth Rock, Old, a Convention wrecked on, 410.

Point Tribulation, Mr. Sawin wrecked on, 440.

Poles, exile, whether crop of beans depends on, 397, _note_.

Polk, President, synonymous with our country, 403 censured, 410 in danger of being crushed, 411.

Polka, Mexican, 400.

Pomp, a runaway slave, his nest, 450 hypocritically groans like white man, _ib._ blind to Christian privileges, _ib._ his society valued at fifty dollars, _ib._ his treachery, 451 takes Mr. Sawin prisoner, 452 cruelly makes him work, _ib._ puts himself illegally under his tuition, _ib._ dismisses him with contumelious epithets, _ib._

Pontifical bull, a tamed one, 399.

Pope, his verse excellent, 393.

Pork, refractory in boiling, 399.

Portugal, Alphonso the Sixth of, a monster, 453.

Post, Boston, 174 shaken visibly, 405 bad guide-post, _ib._ too swift, _ib._ edited by a colonel, _ib._ who is presumed officially in Mexico, _ib._ referred to, 415.

Pot-hooks, death in, 432.

Preacher, an ornamental symbol, 421 a breeder of dogmas, _ib._ earnestness of, important, 453.

Present, considered as an annalist, 422 not long wonderful, 426.

President, slaveholding natural to, 424 must be a Southern resident, 439 must own a nigger, _ib._

Principle, exposure spoils it, 409.

Principles, bad, when less harmful, 401.

Prophecy, a notable one, 414.

Proviso, bitterly spoken of, 429.

Prudence, sister, her idiosyncratic teapot, 436.

Psammeticus, an experiment of, 394.

Public opinion, a blind and drunken guide, 401 nudges Mr. Wilbur's elbow, _ib._ ticklers of, 411.

Pythagoras a bean-hater, why, 432.

Pythagoreans, fish reverenced by, why, 416.

Q.

Quixote, Don, 417.

R.

Rag, one of sacred college, 401.

Rantoul, Mr., talks loudly, 396 pious reason for not enlisting, _ib._

Recruiting sergeant, Devil supposed the first, 393.

Representatives' Chamber, 416.

Rhinothism, society for promoting, 427.

Rhyme, whether natural _not_ considered, 393.

Rib, an infrangible one, 435.

Richard the First of England, his Christian fervor, 399.

Riches conjectured to have legs as well as wings, 420.

Robinson, Mr. John P., his opinions fully stated, 402-404.

Rocks, pocket full of, 436.

Rough and Ready, 446 a wig, 447 a kind of scratch, _ib._

Russian eagle turns Prussian blue, 414.

S.

Sabbath, breach of, 400.

Sabellianism, one accused of, 431.

Saltillo, unfavorable view of, 396.

Salt-river, in Mexican, what, 396.

Samuel, Uncle, riotous, 414 yet has qualities demanding reverence, 423 a good provider for his family, _ib._ an exorbitant bill of, 442.

Sansculottes, draw their wine before drinking, 419.

Santa Anna, his expensive leg, 438.

Satan, never wants attorneys, 400 an expert talker by signs, _ib._ a successful fisherman with little or no bait, _ib._ cunning fetch of, 402 dislikes ridicule, 405 ought not to have credit of ancient oracles, 414, _note_.

Satirist, incident to certain dangers, 401.

Savages, Canadian, chance of redemption offered to, 453.

Sawin, B., Esquire, his letter not written in verse, 393 a native of Jaalam, 394 not regular attendant on Rev. Mr. Wilbur's preaching, _ib._ a fool, _ib._ his statements trustworthy, _ib._ his ornithological tastes, _ib._ letter from, _ib._, 433, 443 his curious discovery in regard to bayonets, 395, 396 displays proper family pride, 395 modestly confesses himself less wise than the Queen of Sheba, 398 the old Adam in, peeps out, 399 a _miles emeritus_, 433 is made text for a sermon, _ib._ loses a leg, 434 an eye, _ib._ left hand, _ib._ four fingers of right hand, _ib._ has six or more ribs broken, _ib._ a rib. of his infrangible, _ib._ allows a certain amount of preterite greenness in himself, 435, 436 his share of spoil limited, 436 his opinion of Mexican climate, _ib._ acquires property of a certain sort, _ib._ his experience of glory, 437 stands sentry, and puns thereupon, 438 undergoes martyrdom in some of its most painful forms, _ib._ enters the candidating business, _ib._ modestly states the (avail) abilities which qualify him for high political station, 438-440 has no principles, 438 a peace man, _ib._ unpledged, _ib._ has no objections to owning _peculiar_ property, but would not like to monopolize the truth, 439 his account with glory, 440 a selfish motive hinted in, _ib._ sails for Eldorado, _ib._ shipwrecked on a metaphorical promontory, _ib._ parallel between, and Rev. Mr. Wilbur (not Plutarchian), 442 conjectured to have bathed in river Selemnus, 443 loves plough wisely, but not too well, _ib._ a foreign mission probably expected by, 444 unanimously nominated for presidency, _ib._ his country's father-in-law, _ib._ nobly emulates Cincinnatus, 445 is not a crooked stick, _ib._ advises his adherents, _ib._ views of, on present state of politics, 445-449 popular enthusiasm for, at Bellers's, and its disagreeable consequences, 446 inhuman treatment of, by Bellers, _ib._ his opinion of the two parties, 447 agrees with Mr. Webster, 448 his antislavery zeal, _ib._ his proper self-respect, _ib._ his unaffected piety, _ib._ his not intemperate temperance, 449 a thrilling adventure of, 449-452 his prudence and economy, 450 bound to Captain Jakes, but regains his freedom, _ib._ is taken prisoner, 451, 452 ignominiously treated, 452 his consequent resolution, _ib._

Sayres, a martyr, 416.

Scaliger, saying of, 402.

_Scarabæus pilularius_, 397.

Scott, General, his claims to the presidency, 405, 407.

Scythians, their diplomacy commended, 432.

Seamen, colored, sold, 392.

Selemnus, a sort of Lethean river, 443.

Senate, debate in, made readable, 416.

Seneca, saying of, 401 another, 414, _note_ overrated by a saint (but see Lord Bolingbroke's opinion of, in a letter to Dean Swift), 427 his letters not commended, _ib._ a son of Rev. Mr. Wilbur, 442.

Serbonian bog of literature, 416.

Sextons, demand for, 396 heroic official devotion of one, 453.

Shaking fever, considered as an employer, 436.

Shakspeare, a good reporter, 408.

Sham, President, honest, 411.

Sheba, Queen of, 398.

Sheep, none of Rev. Mr. Wilbur's turned wolves, 394.

Shem, Scriptural curse of, 452.

Show, natural to love it, 396, _note_.

Silver spoon born in Democracy's mouth, what, 411.

Sinai, suffers outrages, 422.

Sin, wilderness of, modern, what, 422.

Skin, hole in, strange taste of some for, 437.

Slaughter, whether God strengthen us for, 400.

Slaughterers and soldiers compared, 443.

Slaughtering nowadays is slaughtering, 443.

Slavery, of no color, 391 cornerstone of liberty, 415 also keystone, 418 last crumb of Eden, 420 a Jonah, _ib._ an institution, 431 a private State concern, 450.

Smith, Joe, used as a translation, 422.

Smith, John, an interesting character, 426.

Smith, Mr., fears entertained for, 421 dined with, 427.

Smith, N. B., his magnanimity, 425.

Soandso, Mr., the great, defines his position, 425.

Sol the fisherman, 397 soundness of respiratory organs hypothetically attributed to, _ib._

Solon, a saying of, 401.

South Carolina, futile attempt to anchor, 417.

Spanish, to walk, what, 398.

Speech-making, an abuse of gift of speech, 415.

Star, north, subject to indictment, whether, 420.

Store, cheap cash, a wicked fraud, 441.

Strong, Governor Caleb, a patriot, 404.

Swearing commended as a figure of speech, 394, _note_.

Swift, Dean, threadbare saying of, 405.

T.

Tag, elevated to the Cardinalate, 401.

Taxes, direct, advantages of, 442.

Taylor zeal, its origin, 446 General, greased by Mr. Choate, 448.

Tesephone, banished for long-windedness, 416.

Thanks, get lodged, 437.

Thaumaturgus, St. Gregory, letter of, to the Devil, 428.

Thirty-nine articles might be made serviceable, 400.

Thor, a foolish attempt of, 417.

Thumb, General Thomas, a valuable member of society, 413.

Thunder, supposed in easy circumstances, 435.

Thynne, Mr., murdered, 393.

Time, an innocent personage to swear by, 394 a scene-shifter 426.

Toms, Peeping, 426.

Trees, various kinds of extraordinary ones, 440, 441.

Trowbridge, William, mariner, adventure of, 400.

Truth and falsehood start from same point, 402 truth invulnerable to satire, _ib._ compared to a river, 408 of fiction sometimes truer than fact, _ib._ told plainly, _passim_.

Tuileries, exciting scene at, 414.

Tully, a saying of, 409, _note_.

Tweedledee, gospel according to, 422.

Tweedledum, great principles of, 422.

U.

Ulysses, husband of Penelope, 404 borrows money, 441. (For full particulars of, see Homer and Dante.)

University, triennial catalogue of, 406.