Wonderful Old Man

u i nornijurn ia wie eunui ui mo on Courier, appeared in that paper _- y. Ilere is anexlrrct: Por my own part, Í ihink 1 have ed more of the kind mercies of a yen Providence thtin fnlla to the lot of cor(1 t men. During ftfty years I have 8ny i in America, Í have not been he y sickness one day. l have three owi s and three daughters,not orre of whom he given me a sore heart. I have po ix grand-children,two oí them married. dl5t n now in my sevenly-third yeáf; my lth as good, my personal Veehngs as ifortable, and my heart as light as it qij s when in my twentieth year. I read hout spectacles. In fact my spirits at baf es are so buoyant, that I a-n obliged tifi let off steant by writing some abstract, Bi ;onnected and incoherent ideas - lik-e sp bbett and his pigs for instance, else I fin nk sometimes the boiler in my carease dn tuld burst with pure delighf. Thére is L other item among my mercies,on whidi though old) look back with delight, that s( the pretty Yankee girl, who became th f was the first young in tj, ïose private compajiy I had spent ten dii ñutes; yes- =and the first whose Ups I Kc dever tasted. Yotf will laugh at this; r it so, better laugh than cry- the ■ man lives as long as the sad- so snys jlo.nonj and where Í tö begin my life h iew, I would just manage my treaty of ace with the lasses, after the same mode Q id form. This little soul of oiirs is a 5t jrious little article; heart and fiesh may 0 .il- (thóiigh in my case 1 feel it not;) si et in the pleasures of memory, the soul ii ; as much alive in retrospect as il was d ftv years ago. In my mind, I have c imetiiïiescompafed the soul to the Jj r, and the limbs, eyës and ears, o the fc iachinery; the machinery wears out by ; sing, and won't answer the impulse of (] he first moving cause; yet the fue and , he steam afe the same. The man of f 'ighty, whdse eyes are dim, vhose ears f ire shut, and whose arm hos been struck vith palsyi by the impulse of the soul he nay try td taise his arm; t won't answe o the motiorts oí íhe soul, because the ( nachiner-y of the arni is dead, though ihé ( soul is as much alivó as when first ( ;d into tho carease of clay. Seeing rrie , u activej lively, and yöung in j artcö, as Í woa forty y cora agq, Í am osli Ink n my life, and I never eat ', ihat I seidom sit ten minutes at table, flIavC8 ? ld eat as much more were I to a mi iy appetite was cloyed. t BORTINO AL1VE." lh