{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3395", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "(lass F f-", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE\\n\u00c2\u00a7attlc of ttjc frogs,\\nAT\\nWINDHAM/ 1758,\\nWITH VARIOUS ACCOUNTS\\nAND\\nTHREE OF THE MOST POPULAR BALLADS OX THE SUBJECT,\\nWITH AN INTRODUCTION\\nBY WILLIAM L. WEAVER.\\ni\\nPUBLISHED BY\\nJ A M E S W ALDEN,\\nWILLIMANTIC, CONN.\\n1857.", "height": "3354", "width": "1924", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3297", "width": "1845", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE\\nattU of tljt frogs,\\nAT 4 3\\nWINDHAM, 1758,\\nWITH VARIOUS ACCOUNTS\\nAND\\nTHREE OF THE MOST POPULAR BALLADS ON THE SUBJECT,\\nWITH AN INTRODUCTION\\nBY WILLIAM L. WEAVER.\\npublished by\\nJ^lMES walden\\nWILLIMANTIC, CONN.\\n1857.", "height": "3380", "width": "2023", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "0745\\nV", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION,\\nCELEBRITY OF THE AFFAIR.\\nThe town of Windham has been rendered famous for all\\ntime, by a memorable event which occurred within its borders\\nabout a hundred years ago, when the inhabitants were greatly\\nalarmed and frightened by some unusual demonstration among\\nthe bull-frogs.\\nThis really singular affair has obtained a wide-spread noto-\\nriety, and the story of the Windham Frogs is well known all\\nover the country. Indeed, the fame of it has been so extended,\\nthat a citizen of the town can hardly go so far from home, but\\nhe will hear something about bull-frogs if his place of nativity\\nis known.\\nThis occurrence has been celebrated in song, and sung in\\nrhyme and doggerel of all kinds of measure and metre it has\\nfound a place in grave history the most exaggerated accounts\\nhave obtained credence in some quarters various traditions\\nand anecdotes in relation to it, have been remembered with\\nremarkable tenacity, while it has afforded an inexhaustible\\ntheme for the indulgence of wit and pleasantry at the expense\\nof the inhabitants of the town.\\nWe may presume the actors in the scene did not wish to\\nhear much about it, nor always relish the jokes and jibes to\\nwhich they were subject, but their descendents have received\\nthe ridicule which has been showered upon them from all\\nquarters, with great good nature. They have laughed with\\nthose that laughed at the ludicrous aspects of the affair, and\\nhave not been disposed to get angry with those who were in-\\nclined to poke fun at them on this account. In fact, they\\nhave accepted the bull-frog as a device, have stamped his", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "image on their bank-bills, and were it in the days of chivalry,\\ntheir heraldic devices and coats of arms would blazon with\\nbull-frogs.\\nWINDHAM AND THE FROG POND.\\nBefore noticing* the different accounts and traditions relat-\\ning to the affair, or attempting any explanation of it, a few\\nfacts will render the subject more intelligible to those un-\\nacquainted with the geography and topography of the town.\\nWindham is situated in the eastern part of Connecticut,\\nabout thirty miles from Hartford, and was at the time of the\\noccurrence, (1758,) and for many years subsequent, the most\\nimportant town in that section of the State. It had been set-\\ntled about sixty years and contained a thousand or more inhab-\\nitants.\\nThe village of Windham is located on a hill or considerable\\nelevation, which rises to its highest point a short distance east\\nof the public green, called Swift Hill, because the residence\\nof the celebrated Judge Swift was situated on it.\\nFrom the summit of this hill, the ground gradually descends\\neastward to the Frog Pond, which is just a mile from Wind-\\nham village on the Scotland road. The intervention of this\\nhill, may in a measure explain the confusion of noises heard\\nat the time of the alarm, which appeared to many to be in\\nthe air. The Frog Pond, or rather pond of frogs, at the time\\nof the occurrence, was a moderate sized mill-pond, caused by\\ndamming a small stream. The pond is somewhat larger now\\nthan formerly, caused by raising the dam, and when full, cov-\\ners a surface of about twenty acres. This pond was of a\\nmarshy kind, well adapted to the taste of frogs, and must at\\nthe time, have contained a large number, of all sorts and sizes,\\nwith excellent voices. It is not necessary, however, to sup-\\npose it contained as many as Peters, in his History of Con-\\nnecticut, would have us believe for, at a moderate estimate,\\nhis account would give more than five millions but there were\\nenough to make a great deal of noise and confusion when\\nthey became excited. There are not probably as many frogs\\nin the pond now as formerly, yet there are a few left. A", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "friend, sometime since, fishing in its waters, had a powerful\\nbite, when he hauled in and found he had caught a big\\nbull-frog.\\nTHE ALAEM OF THE TOWN.\\nIt was, according to most accounts, in the month of June or\\nJuly, 1758, on a dark, foggy night, the wind easterly, with an\\natmosphere favorable to the transmission of sound, that the\\nevent happened. It was past the midnight hour, and the in-\\nhabitants were buried in profound sleep, when the outcry\\ncommenced. There were heard shouts and cries, and such a\\nvariety of mingled sounds, which seemed to fill the heavens,\\nthat soon roused the people from their slumbers and thor-\\noughly alarmed the town.\\nTo the excited imaginations of the suddenly awakened and\\nstartled inhabitants, it is not strange that some thought the\\nday of judgment was at hand, while others supposed that an\\narmy of French and Indians was advancing to attack the town.\\nWe are not about to draw upon the imagination, to depict\\nthe scenes that then and there transpired, as others have done,\\nour only object being to give such facts and incidents, as will\\nenable the reader to arrive at a correct solution of the affair.\\nBut the alarm and turn out of the whole town at the dead\\nhours of night, the darkness and confusion in consequence, the\\ncries and screams of the terror-stricken women and children,\\n3 running hither and thither of the half-naked inhabitants,\\n3 continuance of the strange and perfectly unaccountable\\nises, must, without any exaggeration, have produced a scene,\\ncommon phrase, more easily imagined than described.\\nIt should be remembered, that it was then comparatively a\\nnew country, and during the time of the French and Indian\\nwar that resulted in the conquest of Canada. Col. Dyer* had\\nCol. Eliphalet Dyer, the same for whom the frogs called so loudly, was one\\nof the most eminent men in the town and State. He was agent for the Colony to\\nEngland, member of the first and second Congress, Chief Justice of the State, c.\\nIt is related of him, that on one occasion Ins arrival in the city to attend Con-\\ngress was greeted with shouts of laughter when alighting, lie discovered the cause\\nof merriment to be a monstrous bull-frog, dangling from the hinder part of his\\ncarriage, appended probably by some wag on his route.", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6\\njust raised a regiment to join the expedition against Crown\\nPoint, and many of the brave men of the town belonged to it,\\nand were at this time on the banks of Lake George, under the\\nheroic Putnam, battling with their savage foes.\\nMany incidents of the fright are related, and the names of\\nsome of the prominent men of the town have been immor-\\ntalized by this affair, but we do not choose to give any, except\\nsuch as are brought out in the following accounts and ballads,\\nand those are probably pure fictions, or greatly exaggerated.\\nTowards morning, the sounds began to die away, and order\\nand quiet was restored to this unusually peaceful town.. To\\nthose who took the trouble to go to the pond and we presume\\nmany did go next day the scene of the disturbance was man-\\nifest. Dead frogs by hundreds, some say thousands, were lying\\non the shores of the pond or floating on its surface, either\\nkilled in battle, or by some dire catastrophe. The mortifica-\\ntion and chagrin of the citizens, when the facts became known,\\nmay well l e imagined, and we presume they never heard the\\nlast of it. To be frightened half out of their senses by a parcel\\nof contemptible bull-frogs, was too ludicrous an affair not to\\nmake them the butt of ridicule ever afterwards.\\nACCOUNT OF PETERS.\\nThat the people of Windham were aroused from their mid-\\nnight slumbers that the town was thoroughly alarmed and\\nmany terribly frightened that there was great confusion and\\nconsternation, caused by some extraordinary tumult among\\nthe frogs, as has been stated, all this is undoubtedly true but\\nthe occasion of this unusual outcry in frogdom, the why and\\nhow of it are not so clear, there being many versions and\\nexplanations of the affair.\\nThe account of Peters, given in the following pages, in his\\nveracious History of Connecticut, which has probably been\\nmore widely published than any other, is that the frogs finding\\ntheir pond becoming dry, left it in a body for the river, and\\nwere so numerous that, in his own language, They filled a\\nroad forty yards wide four miles in length and the noise\\nand clamor made by them in passing through the town at\\nmidnight, caused the alarm. This account has obtained ex-", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "tensive belief, especially abroad, and the first ballad following,\\nis founded upon it. The absurdity and evident exaggeration\\nof this statement, are truly laughable, and were it not that his\\nnarration has been, and still is considered by many, a veritable\\nhistory of the affair, it would be unworthy a moment s notice.\\nMr. Peters resided at Hebron, Conn., only about a dozen miles\\nfrom Windham, soon after the occurrence he had evidently\\nbeen in the town and describes its appearance he might then\\nhave easily obtained the facts his account is apparently can-\\ndid, and were there nothing else incorrect or untrue in his\\nbook, his statements, however wonderful, would seem to be\\nfounded on fact.\\nBut his whole book is most grossly and unpardonably inac-\\ncurate and reckless in its statements, besides its downright\\nfalsehoods. As a specimen or two of his incorrectness, he says,\\nthe Frog Pond is five miles from Windham, whereas it is only\\none; that it is three miles square, when it never was a fourth\\nof a mile in extent.\\nFrom this and other exaggerated statements with which his\\nbook abounds, it is plain that no reliance whatever can be\\nplaced on his account, clergyman though he was, unless sus-\\ntained by other testimony, and his object probably was to\\nmake out a large story to add to the attractions of his book.\\nOTHER ACCOUNTS.\\nhere are, however, some traditions that the frogs left\\npond and started towards the town and were met by the\\nmed men, and a battle, or rather a massacre did take\\n:e, when the frogs were slaughtered without mercy by the\\nenraged inhabitants, whose slumbers had been so much dis-\\nturbed. But these accounts seem to be all founded on the\\nstatement of Peters, or ballads based on the same.\\nThe other and more favorite theory is, that there was\\nsimply and literally a battle of the frogs, or a fight among\\nthemselves, caused by a short supply of water, owing to a\\nsevere drought which had prevailed. This view of the matter\\nis fully set forth, suitably embellished, in the account given in\\nthe following pages, and first published as a preface to the", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8\\nsong, entitled Lawyers and Bull-frogs. It is probably more\\ngenerally believed by the present inhabitants of- the town than\\nany other, as giving the most rational explanation of the affair\\nyet it is not by any means established, as we shall see.\\nTKADITIONS IN THE FOLLETT FAMILY.\\nSupposing the facts and particulars would be better known,\\nand the traditions more reliable by those living in the imme-\\ndiate vicinity of the pond, we have taken some pains to learn\\nthe views of those on the spot, as obtained from their fathers,\\nliving at the time of the occurrence.\\nThe Frog Pond was then owned by a Follett family, and the\\npremises have been in possession of their descendants ever since.\\nThe privilege is now owned by Abner Follett, Esq., who has\\nvery kindly given the writer of this article his views of the\\naffair, founded on traditions preserved in the family. He says\\nthat his father, though young, remembered the occurrence,\\nwas on the ground at the time, and he has often heard him\\nrelate it.\\nThese traditions are briefly as follows The event occurred\\nin the month of June, though whether O. S. or N. S., Mr.\\nFollett does not know. The pond was not dry, nor had there\\nbeen any drought, as is so generally believed there was plenty\\nof water at the time in the pond, it being supplied by a never\\nfailing stream. The frogs did not leave the pond, as many\\nnow suppose, and there was no evidence of fighting, though\\nmany dead frogs were found about the pond next morning,\\nyet without any visible wounds. The outcry was loud and\\nvery extraordinary, the noises seemed to fill the heavens, and\\nare described as thunderlike. Some near by declared that\\nthey could feel their beds vibrate under them, yet knowing\\nfrom whence the sounds came, and that they were made by\\nthe frogs, they were not frightened, as were the inhabitants\\nof the village. The real cause of the outcry is unknown.\\nVarious opinions were entertained at the time some attrib-\\nuted it to disease, as so many dead frogs were found on the\\nshores of the pond.\\nSuch is the substance of Mr. Follett s statement, and com-\\ning so direct, and from such a source, is entitled to the greatest", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "weight. To those who know Mr. F., it is unnecessary to say\\nthat nothing exaggerated or savoring of romance would be\\nstated or entertained by him. No man Jias had better oppor-\\ntunities to learn the facts no one, we think would be more\\nlikely to discard all fiction, and if these statements can not be\\ncredited, we can place no reliance on any traditions relating to\\nthe affair.\\nCAUSE OF THE OUTCRY.\\nFrom the lapse of time since the occurrence, the few relia-\\nble facts preserved, and the conflicting accounts, it is not so\\neasy to decide positively, as to the cause of the disturbance.\\nIt occurred when newspapers were scarce, and no account,\\nso far as we can learn, was published at the time. It is very\\ncertain that the sounds heard were not the ordinary croakings\\nof the frogs, for their usual notes could hardly be heard a\\nmile, under favorable circumstances besides, their common\\nsounds would not have caused alarm, or attracted any particu-\\nlar attention. It must have been something unusual and\\nvery extraordinary to have produced such an excitement.\\nThe statement of Peters, and others, that the frogs left the\\npond, is rejected, not only from its inherent improbability, but\\nas not warranted by the circumstances, or sustained by the\\nmost reliable traditions.\\nThe other and more favorite theory is, as has been stated,\\nthat owing to a severe drought, there was a short supply of\\nwater, and that the frogs fought among themselves for the\\nenjoyment of what remained.\\nThe writer, with many others, has believed that the frogs\\ndid have a fight, that they fought like dogs, and that many\\ndid not live to fight another day.\\nThis view would certainly seem to be inconsistent, or at least\\nnot sustained, by the account of Mr. Follett. If the occur-\\nrence was in June, it is not probable that there was a drought\\nso early in the season, and if there was no drought, the cause\\nuniversally assigned as the origin of the fight did not exist.\\nYet notwithstanding these statements, we think the possibility\\nof a fight is not absolutely precluded, though rendered less\\nprobable. But if the frogs did not have a fight, what caused\\n2", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10\\nthem to make such a terrible outcry Was it disease, as sug-\\ngested by some, at the time It is hardly probable that an\\nepidemic would have been so sudden in its attack, have pro-\\nduced so great mortality, and have been so soon over.\\nWas there a shock of an earthquake, or some convulsion of\\nnature in connection with the affair, that proved such a catas-\\ntrophe to the frogs The jarring thunder-like sounds would\\nindicate that it is possible, yet there are no facts or traditions\\nbesides, to warrant such a supposition. Were there thunder-\\nings and lightnings, and were the frogs somehow affected and\\nkilled by electricity There is nothing to justify such a con-\\nclusion. What was it then that killed the frogs The two\\nfacts undisputed are, that there was an unusual outcry and a\\nlarge quantity of dead frogs found about the pond next morn-\\ning, which, taken together, we think plainly indicates that the\\nnoise had some connection with the death of the frogs. It has\\nbeen suggested that when frogs make the most noise, they are\\nin the highest state of enjoyment, and if the traditions are\\ncorrect, the sounds made were of the same kind as heard from\\nfrogs on ordinary occasions. This would show that they were\\nhaving a high time, were very happy, and therefore vociferous\\nperhaps striving with all their might to excel each other. But\\nin this case, what killed the frogs Is it possible that it was\\nthe excitement or over-exertion on that memorable night\\nWe may tax the imagination to any extent, yet if the frogs\\ndid not fight among themselves, we are left entirely to conjec-\\nture as to the cause of the disturbance. But, will frogs fight?\\nWe believe they are not naturally very belligerent, yet like other\\ninoffensive creatures, they can and sometimes do fight, and it is\\nalso said that the big ones will destroy and eat up the little\\nones. Some facts with regard to the habits and peculiarities\\nof frogs, would be interesting, and perhaps help solve the\\ndifficulty, but we can only allude to them.\\nThat a frog is not exactly a fighting animal, is shown from\\nthe fact that he is not possessed of any formidable means of\\noffense or defense, and has no teeth, only a hard membranous\\ngum, extending around the mouth. Their mode of combat\\nis peculiar. They grapple each other with the fore paws, get", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "11\\nhold with their mouth, and when firmly fastened together,\\nwill kick with their hind feet at the most vital parts. Be-\\nsides their capacity for making their usual sounds, they will,\\nwhen injured, at times, utter a cry like that of a young child.\\nWe should suppose that in this mode of fighting they would\\nmake a good deal of fuss and noise, and it is a fact that while\\nso engaged they do sometimes cry out or squall as a per-\\nson remarked who had often observed them. In such a con-\\ntest the strongest would most likely prove the victor, and as\\nthe frog is rather tough-hided, death by such a process might\\nnot leave any visible wound on the victim. It has been sug-\\ngested that had there been a battle, there would have been\\nprofound silence, but we have it on good authority, that frogs\\ndo at times, when engaged in fighting, make more or less\\nnoise yet whether they would, or did, make such a racket as\\nwas heard on this occasion, while having a general melee, is a\\nquestion. But as frogs will fight, and do sometimes make a\\nnoise when engaged in combat even if there was no lack of\\nwater in the pond, and no cause known for a conflict can we\\nnot more rationally account for the outcry, and the dead frogs,\\nby supposing that for some reason or other, there was a battle,\\nthan on any other hypothesis\\nBut we can devote no more space to the consideration of this\\nstrange eventful history. It was certainly one of the most\\nremarkable events that ever occurred in the country, the like\\nof which was never known before or since. With the facts\\nand speculations given above, and the accounts following, we\\nleave our readers to form their own opinions of the occur-\\nrence, and its cause.\\nAs many have a desire to preserve the old songs and tradi-\\ntions relating to this affair, the writer has collected the\\nfollowing accounts and ballads, which are Curiosities of\\nLiterature in their way, and presents them as amusing\\nrelics of the olden time, in a style and form suitable for pre-\\nservation.", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12\\nTHE WINDHAM FROGS.\\nBY REV. SAMUEL PETERS.\\n[The following marvelous account of the Windham Frogs, is extracted from\\nDr. Samuel Peters General History of Connecticut.\\nMr. Peters resided at one time in Hebron, Conn., previous to the Revolution-\\nary War, and living so near the scene described, and it being so soon after the\\nevent happened, it is rather strange that he should give such an exaggerated ac-\\ncount of the affair.\\nBut Dr. Peters was a decided Tory, and found it convenient to leave for Eng-\\nland soon after the breaking out of the war. In 1781, he published in London,\\nhis famous History of Connecticut, in which he attempted to show up the people\\nof the colony, with their manners, customs, laws, c, in no very enviable light.\\nThis extract is a fair specimen of its correctness. No wonder President Dwight\\ncalled it a mass of folly and falsehood.\\nWindham resembles Rumford and stands on the Winno-\\nmantic River. Its meeting-house is elegant, and has a steeple,\\nbell and clock. Its court-house is scarcely to be looked upon\\nas an ornament. The township forms four parishes, and it is\\nten miles square. Strangers are very much terrified at the\\nhideous noise made on summer evenings by the vast number\\nof frogs in the brooks and ponds. There are about thirty\\ndifferent voices among them some of which resemble the\\nbellowing of a bull. The owls and whip-poor-wills complete the\\nrough concert, which may be heard several miles. Persons\\naccustomed to such serenaders are not disturbed by them at\\ntheir proper stations but one night, in July, 1758, the frogs\\nof an artifical pond, three miles square, and about five from\\nWindham, finding the water dried up, left the place in a body,\\nand marched, or rather hopped, towards Winnomantic River.\\nThey were under the necessity of taking the road and going\\nthrough the town, which they entered about midnight. The\\nbull-frogs were the leaders, and the pipers followed without\\nnumber. They filled a road forty yards wide, for four miles in\\nlength, and were for several hours, in passing through the\\ntown, unusually clamorous. The inhabitants were equally\\nperplexed and frightened some expected to find an army of\\nFrench and Indians others feared an earthquake and disso-\\nlution of nature. The consternation was universal. Old and", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "13\\nyoung, male and female, fled naked from their beds with more\\nshriekings than those of the frogs. The event was fatal to\\nseveral women. The men, after a flight of half a mile, in\\nwhich they met with many broken shins, finding no enemies\\nin pursuit of them, made a halt, and summoned resolution\\nenough to venture back to their wives and children when\\nthey distinctly heard from the enemy s camp these words,\\nWight, Hilderken, Dier, Pete. This last they thought meant\\ntreaty and plucking up courage, they sent a triumvirate to\\ncapitulate with the supposed French and Indians. These\\nthree men approached in their shirts, and begged to speak\\nwith the general, but it being dark, and no answer given, they\\nwere sorely agitated for some time betwixt hope and fear at\\nlength, however, they discovered that the dreaded inimical\\narmy was an army of thirsty frogs going to the river for a little\\nwater. Such an incursion was neveij known before nor since\\nand yet the people of Windham have been ridiculed for their\\ntimidity on this occasion. I verily believe an army under the\\nDuke of Marlborough would, under like circumstances, have\\nacted no better than they did.\\n[The following ballad is from an old Providence Gazette, and appears to be\\nfounded on Peters account of the affair:]\\nTHE FROGS OF WINDHAM,\\nAN OLD COLONY TALE, FOUNDED ON FACT. BY ARION.\\nWhen these free States were colonies\\nUnto the mother nation,\\nAnd, in Connecticut, the good\\nOld Blue Laws were in fashion,\\nA circumstance which there occurred,\\n(And much the mind surprises\\nUpon reflection,) then gave rise\\nTo many strange surmises.\\nYou all have seen, as I presume,\\nOr had a chance to see,\\nThose strange amphibious quadrupeds,\\nCall d bull-frogs commonly.", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14\\nWell, in Connecticut tis said,\\nBy those who make pretensions\\nTo truth, those creatures often grow\\nTo marvelous dimensions.\\nOne night in July, 58,\\nThey left their home behind em,\\nWhich was an oak and chestnut swamp,\\nAbout five miles from Windham.\\nThe cause was this the summer s sun\\nHad dried their pond away there\\nSo shallow, that to save their souls,\\nThe bull-frogs could not stay there.\\nSo in a regiment they hopp d,\\nWith many a curious antic,\\nAlong the road which led unto\\nThe river Willimantic.\\nSoon they in sight of Windham came,\\nAll in high perspiration,\\nAnd held their course straight t wards the same\\nWith loud vociferation.\\nYou know such kind of creatures are\\nBy nature quite voracious\\nThus they, impelled by hunger, were\\nRemarkably loquacious.\\nUp flew the windows, one and all,\\nAnd then with ears erected,\\nFrom every casement, gaping rows\\nOf night-capped heads projected.\\nThe children cried, the women scream d,\\nLord have mercy on us\\nThe French have come to burn us out\\nAnd now are close upon us.", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "15\\nA few upon the first alarm,\\nThen arm d themselves to go forth\\nAgainst the foe, with guns and belts,\\nShot, powder-horns, and so forth.\\nSoon all were running here and there,\\nIn mighty consternation\\nResolving of the town to make\\nA quick evacuation.\\nAway they went across the lots,\\nHats, caps, and wigs were scatter d\\nAnd heads were broke, and shoes were lost\\nShins bruis d and noses batter d.\\nThus having gain d a mile or two,\\nThese men of steady habits,\\nAll snug behind an old stone wall\\nLay, like a nest of rabbits.\\nAnd in this state, for half an hour,\\nWith jaws an inch asunder,\\nThey thought upon their goods at home,\\nExposed to lawless plunder.\\nThey thought upon their hapless wives,\\nTheir meeting-house and cattle\\nAnd then resolv d to sally forth\\nAnd give the Frenchmen battle.\\nAmong the property which they\\nHad brought with them to save it,\\nWere found two trumpets and a drum,\\nJust as good luck would have it.\\nFifteen or twenty Jews-harps then\\nWere found in good condition,\\nAnd all the longest winded men\\nWere put in requisition.", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "16\\nStraightway, in long and loud alarm,\\nSaid instruments were clang-ed,\\nAnd the good old one hundredth psalm,\\nFrom nose and Jews-harp twang-ed.\\nSuch as were arm d, in order ranged,\\nThe music in the center\\nDeclar d they would not run away\\nBut on the French would venture.\\nThere might have been among them all,\\nSay twenty guns or over\\nHow many pitchforks, scythes and flails,\\nI never could discover.\\nThe rest agreed to close the rear,\\nAfter some intercession,\\nAnd altogether made a queer\\nAnd curious procession.\\nSome were persuaded that they saw\\nThe band of French marauders\\nAnd not a few declared they heard\\nThe officers give orders.\\nThese words could be distinguish d then,\\nDyer, Elderkin, and Tete,\\nAnd when they heard the last, they thought\\nThe French desired a treaty.\\nSo three good sober-minded men\\nWere chosen straight to carry\\nTerms to the French, as ministers\\nPlenipotentiary.\\nThese, moving on, with conscious fear\\nDid for a hearing call,\\nAnd begged a moment s leave to speak\\nWith the French general.", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "17\\nThe advancing foe an answer made,\\nBut (it was quite provoking,)\\nNot one of them could understand\\nThe language it was spoke in.\\nSo there they stood in piteous plight,\\nTwas ludicrous to see\\nUntil the bull-frogs came in sight,\\nWhich sham d them mightily.\\nThen all went home, right glad to save\\nTheir property from pillage\\nAnd all agreed to shame the men\\nWho first alarm d the village.\\nSome were well pleas d, and some were mad,\\nSome turn d it off in laughter\\nAnd some would never speak a word\\nAbout the thing thereafter.\\nSome vow d, if Satan came at last,\\nThey did not mean to flee him\\nBut if a frog they ever pass d,\\nPretended not to see him.\\nGod save the State of Rhode Island\\nAnd Providence Plantations\\nMay we have ever at command\\nGood clothing, pay, and rations.\\nOne good old rule, avoiding strife,\\nI ve follow d since my youth\\nTo always live an upright life,\\nAnd tell the downright truth.", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "18\\nTHE FROG BATTLE.\\nANONYMOUS.\\n[The following account of this singular event is undoubtedly much nearer the\\ntruth than the narration of Peters. It was first published as an introduction to\\nthe ballad following.\\nThe latter is said to have been composed by Master Ebenezer Tilden, of Leba-\\nnon, father of the somewhat noted Col. Tilden, of the same town. The most\\nancient looking copy the writer can find, has the following long and rather quaint\\ntitle A true relation of a strange battle between some Lawyers and Bull-Frogs,\\nset forth in a new Song, written by a jolly farmer of New England. In the one\\nfollowing, which appeai-s to be a revised edition, seven new verses are added and\\nthree omitted from the old copy, supposed to be the original. We have been un-\\nable to ascertain who wrote the subjoined account, or revised the ballad, or to find\\nthe date of their first publication, but it was many years ago. This song, under\\nthe titles of Lawyers and Bull-Frogs, and Bull-Frog Song, has been exten-\\nsively published, and has been very popular. In fact, it has been considered the\\nBull-frog song. In it an attempt is made to hit off some of the magnates of\\nthe town, and we presume it was not very well relished by them on its first pub-\\nlication.\\nThe cause assigned in it for the disturbance among the frogs, is of course, purely\\nfanciful, and the description of the scenes occasioned by the alarm, probably con-\\ntain more poetry or rather rhyme) than truth.]\\nOn a dark, cloudy, dismal night in the month of July,\\nA. D., 1758, the inhabitants of Windham, a small town in the\\neastern part of Connecticut, (family prayer having been duly\\nand reverently performed around each altar,) had retired for\\nrest, and for several hours, all were wrapt in profound repose\\nwhen suddenly, soon after midnight, the slumbers of the peace-\\nful inhabitants were disturbed by a most terrific noise in the\\nsky, right over their heads, which, to many, seemed the yells\\nand screeches of infuriated Indians, and others had no other\\nway of accounting for the awful sounds, which still kept in-\\ncreasing, but by supposing that the clay of judgment had\\ncertainly come, and to their terrified imaginations, the awful\\nuproar in the air seemed the immediate precursor of the clan-\\ngor of the last trumpet. At intervals, many supposed they\\ncould distinguish the calling out of the particular names, as\\nof Col. Dyer, Elderkin, two eminent lawyers, and this in-\\ncreased the general terror. It was told me by my reverend", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "19\\ngrandmother, and I do not doubt the fact in. the least, as it has\\nbeen confirmed by many other aged and venerable standbys\\nof the town, both male and female, that the minister of the\\nparish, surrounded by his trembling family, fell on his knees\\nin an agony of prayer, and, (as expressed in the verses which\\nfollow,) in his garden among the bean-poles, (but this proba-\\nbly is an embellishment of the poet,) and that by a simulta-\\nneous movement, a great proportion of the inhabitants resorted\\nto the same expedient for succor. But soon there was a rush\\nfrom every house, the tumult in the air still increasing. Old\\nand young, male and female, poured forth into the streets,\\nin purls natwralibus entirely forgetful, in their hurry and\\nconsternation, of their nether habiliments, and with eyes up-\\nturned, tried to pierce the almost palpable darkness. My ven-\\nerable informant, who well recollects the event, says, that\\nsome daring spirits, concluding there was nothing supernatu-\\nral in the hubbub and uproar over head, but that rather they\\nheard the yells of Indians commencing a midnight attack,\\nloaded their guns and sallied forth to meet the invading foes.\\nThese valiant heroes, on ascending the hill that bounds the\\nvillage on the east, perceived that the sounds came from that\\nquarter, and not from the skies, as at first believed but their\\ncourage would not permit them to proceed to the daring ex-\\ntremity of advancing eastward, until thy should discover the\\nreal cause of alarm and distress which pervaded the whole\\nvillage.\\nTowards morning the sounds in the air seemed to die away,\\nand the horror-stricken Windhamites, discovering that no In-\\ndians made an attack, and that for that time they had escaped\\nfrom being called to their account, (a general impression pre-\\nvailed for a time among the females and the more timid of the\\nmale population, that the day of judgment was at hand,) re-\\ntired to rest, bat not until the two robust Colonels had planted\\nsentinels in every place where there was the least danger of an\\nattack from the Indians.\\nIn the morning, the whole cause of alarm, which produced\\nsuch distressing apprehensions among the good people of the\\ntown, was apparent to all who took the trouble to go to a cer-\\ntain mill-pond, situated about three-fourths of a mile eastward", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20\\nof the village. This pond hereafter in the annals of fame\\nforever to be called the FROG POND in consequence of a\\nsevere drought which had prevailed for many weeks, had be-\\ncome nearly dry, and the Bull-Frogs it was densely populated\\nwith, fought a pitched battle on the sides of the ditch which\\nran through it, for the possession and enjoyment of the fluid\\nwhich remained. Long and obstinate was the contest main-\\ntained. Several thousands of the warrior hosts were found\\ndead on both sides of the ditch the next morning. It had been\\nremarkably still for several hours before the battle commenced,\\nbut suddenly, as if by a pre-concerted agreement, every frog\\non one side of the ditch raised the war cry, Col. Dyer Col.\\nDyer and at the same instant, from the opposite side shouted\\nthe adversaries, Elderkin too Elderkin too\\nOwing to some peculiar state of the atmosphere, the awful\\nnoises and cries appeared to be directly over their heads\\nand considering all the circumstances, it is not at all surpris-\\ning that many ludicrous, and even distressing events, should\\nhave occurred on that eventful night, among the affrighted\\ninhabitants of the city of BULL-FROGS.\\nBULL-FROG SONG,\\nORIGINALLY ENTITLED LAWYERS AND BULL-FROGS.\\nGood people all, both great and small,\\nOf every occupation,\\nI pray draw near and lend an ear\\nTo this our true relation.\\nTwas of a fright happened one night,\\nCaused by the bull-frog nation,\\nAs strange an one as ever was known\\nIn all our generation.\\nThe frogs we hear, in bull-frog shire,\\nTheir chorister had buried\\nThe saddest loss, and greatest cross\\nThat ever they endured.", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "21\\nThus being deprived, they soon contrived,\\nTheir friends to send to, greeting,\\nEven to all, both great and small,\\nTo hold a general meeting.\\nSubject and lord, with one accord,\\nNow came with bowels yearning,\\nFor to supply, and qualify,\\nAnd fit a frog for learning.\\nFor to supply immediately,\\nThe place of their deceased,\\nThere did they find one to their mind,\\nWhich soon their sorrow eased.\\nThis being done, the glorious sun,\\nBeing down and night advancing,\\nWith great delight they spent the night,\\nIn music and in dancing.\\nAnd when they sung, the air it rung,\\nAnd when they broke in laughter,\\nIt did surprise both learned and wise,\\nAs you shall find hereafter.\\nA negro man, we understand,\\nAwoke and heard the shouting,\\nHe ne er went abroad, but awak d his lord,\\nWhich filled their hearts with doubting.\\nThey then did rise, with great surprise,\\nAnd raised the town or city,\\nAlthough before unto the poor\\nThey ne er would show pity.\\nWith one accord they went abroad,\\nAnd stood awhile to wonder,\\nThe bull-frog shout appears no doubt\\nTo them like claps of thunder.", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22\\nWhich made them say, the judgment day,\\nWithout a doubt was coming\\nFor in the air, they did declare,\\nWas very awful drumming.\\nThose lawyers fees would give no case,\\nThough well they re worth inditing\\nTo pray they kneel alas they feel\\nThe worm of conscience biting.\\nBeing thus dismayed, one of them said,\\nHe would make restitution\\nHe would restore one-half or more\\nThis was his resolution.\\nAnother s heart was touched in part,\\nBut not pricked to the centre,\\nRather than pay one-half away,\\nHis soul, he said, he d venture.\\nThen they agreed to go with speed,\\nAnd see what was the matter\\nAnd as they say that by the way\\nRepenting tears did scatter.\\nThey traveled still unto the hill,\\nWith those men they did rally,\\nThen soon they found the doleful sound\\nTo come out of the valley.\\nP\\nThen down they went, with one consent,\\nAnd found those frogs a singing,\\nRaising their voice for to rejoice,\\nThis was the doleful ringing.\\nHome those great men returned then,\\nNow filled with wrath and malice,\\nAnd mustered all, both great and small,\\nFrom prison and from palace.", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "23\\nSwearing, I say, thus in array,\\nTo be revenged upon them\\nThinking it best, I do protest,\\nTo go and fall upon them.\\nThen armed all, both great and small,\\nWith guns and swords and hatchets,\\nThe Indian king could never bring\\nAn army that could match it.f\\n*01d Stoughton he ran and charged up his gun,\\nAnd flourished his sword in the air,\\nBut not being stout, he at last gave out,\\nAnd fell on his knees to prayer.\\nThen armed with fury, both judge and jury,\\nUnto the Frog-Pond moved\\nAnd as they say, a fatal day\\nUnto the frogs it proved.\\nThis terrible night the Parson did fright\\nHis people almost to despair,\\nFor poor Windham souls, among the bean-poles,\\nHe made a most wonderful prayer.\\nt The following are the verses here omitted in this edition, but in the original\\nBeing I say, thus in array\\nUpon the mountains early,\\nThese Lawyers they, did send away\\nWith them to hold a par-ley\\nWho did demand, I understand,\\nOf them what was the reason\\nThat they did cry, so hideously\\nSaying it was high treason\\nThe bull-frogs brave, the reason gave\\nAnd their own cause defended\\nTelling their case, before their face,\\nAs it was apprehended.", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24\\nLawyer Lucifer called up his crew,\\nDyer and Elderkin, you must come too.\\nOld Col. Dyer you know well enough\\nHe had an old negro, his name was Cuff.\\n*Now massa, says Cuff, I m now glad enough,\\nFor what little comfort I have,\\nI make it no doubt my time is just out,\\nNo longer shall I be a slave.\\nAs for Larabie, so guilty was he,\\nHe durst not stir out of the house\\nThe poor guilty soul crept into his hole\\nAnd there lay as still as a mouse.\\n*As for Jemmy Flint, he began to repent,\\nFor a Bible he never had known,\\nHis life was so bad he d give half he had\\nTo old Father Stoughton for one.\\nThose armed men, they killed them,\\nAnd scalped about two hundred\\nTaking, I say, their lives away,\\nAnd then their camp they plundered.\\nThose lusty frogs, they fought like dogs,\\nFor which I do commend them\\nBut lost the day, for want, I say,\\nOf weapons to defend them.\\nThen with a shout they turned about,\\nAnd said we ve now been crafty,\\nOur city s peace shall now increase,\\nAnd we shall dwell in safety.\\nHome those great men returned then,\\nUnto the town with fury,\\nAnd swore those frogs were saucy dogs,\\nBefore both judge and jury.", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "25\\nI had this story set before me\\nJust as I have writ it,\\nIt being so new, so strange and true,\\nI could not well omit it.\\nLawyers I say, now from this day,\\nBe honest in your dealing,\\nAnd never more increase your store,\\nWhile you the poor are killing.\\nFor if you do, I ll have, you know,\\nConscience again will smite you,\\nThe bull-frog shout will ne er give out,\\nBut rise again and fight you.\\n*Now Lawyers, Parsons, Bull-frogs, all,\\nI bid you each farewell;\\nAnd unto you I loudly call\\nA better tale to tell.\\nNot contained in the original song.", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26\\n[The verses following were published in the Boston Museum, in 1851, and\\nit is supposed were written by a native of Windham.]\\nTHE BULL-FROG FIGHT\\nA BALLAD OF THE OLDEN TIME.\\nA direful story must I tell,\\nShould I at length relate\\nWhat once a luckless town befell\\nIn wooden nutmeg state.\\nTwas in the days of old King George,\\nThe Dutchman, who did reign\\nO er England, and her colonies,\\nAnd islands in the main.\\nThe Frenchmen, in those troublous times,\\nWith Indian tribes did strive\\nTo shoot, and scalp, and tomahawk,\\nAnd burn our sires alive.\\nAnd many a village was burned down,\\nAnd many a shot and scar\\nTo our forefathers oft was given\\nIn the French and Indian war.\\nBut the direst fray in all that war\\nTo shake King George s crown,\\nWas when the bull-fkogs marched by night\\nAgainst old Windham town.\\nThese bull-frogs lived a mile away,\\nBeyond the eastern hill,\\nWithin a rich and slimy pond\\nThat feeds an ancient mill.", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "27\\nAnd there, at night, their concerts loud\\nRolled up from stump and bog,\\nAs bass and treble swelled the throat\\nOf bull and heifer frog.\\nBut on a time the greedy sun\\nHad drunk their lakelet dry\\nThe reckless mill had drained it out,\\nWith grinding corn and rye.\\nAnd they but met an angry glare,\\nWhen they reproached the sun\\nTheir bitter tears moved not a mill\\nNor broke its heart of stone.\\nThe drinking sun and mill had drained\\nA domain wide and rich,\\nAnd dissipation, not their own\\nBrought the frogs to a narrow ditch.\\nNature a living owed to them\\nTwas very plain and yet\\nThey watched in vain for clouds to come,\\nAnd liquidate the debt.\\nThey often gasped and prayed for rain,\\nAnd she did oft refuse,\\nAnd each dark eve conviction brought\\nThat she grudged them their dews.\\nAt length, one night, when human kind\\nIn sleep had settled down,\\nThey heard She tucket rolling on,\\nBeyond old Windham town.\\nThe murmur of that rushing stream,\\nBorne on the western wind,\\nFilled them with frenzy, and they left\\nTheir native pond behind.", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28\\nThey sallied forth, a mighty host,\\nThey swarmed upon the hill\\nBeneath whose front the village lay,\\nIn slumbers deep and still.\\nAnd now Shetucket s gurgling roar\\nCame freshly from the wood,\\nAnd maddened them with strong desire\\nTo leap into the flood.\\nThey piped, and screamed, and bellowed forth,\\nIn accents loud and deep,\\nTheir frantic joy, and like the ghost\\nOf Banquo, murdered sleep.\\nThe villagers whose rest was slain\\nBy this advancing crew,\\nAwaked from horrid dreams, in fear\\nThat they d be murdered too.\\nFor ne er did angry foemen raise\\nSo loud and fierce a din\\nNor Scotch, nor Dutch, nor mad Malay,\\nNor ancient Philistine.\\nThe frightful sounds were now like yells\\nFrom painted savage grim,\\nAnd now more terrible than that\\nLike Cromwell s battle hymn.\\nThen forth the people rushed, to hear\\nThose noises rend the air\\nAnd some resolved to meet the foe,\\nSome, refuge sought in prayer.\\nSome thought the judgment day at hand\\nBut their fears were banished quite,\\nBy a funny black, who clared twas strange\\nThat that day should come in the night.", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "29\\nAnd soon were gathered on the green,\\nOld Windham s valiant sons,\\nSome armed with pitchforks, rakes, or scythes,\\nAnd some with rusty guns.\\nAnd there, in hurried council met,\\nThey trembled and stood still,\\nTo listen to the cruel foe\\nWho thundered from the hill.\\nThe fiendish jargon that so loud\\nFrom throats discordant rung,\\nThey doubted not conveyed fierce threats\\nIn French or Indian tongue.\\nBut how their warmest blood was chilled,\\nTo hear the foe demand\\nThe lives of their best citizens\\nMuch noted in the land.\\nHow quaked their very souls with dread,\\nAs, mid the grievous din,\\nThe foe, remorseless, bellowed forth\\nThe name of Elderkin.\\nTheir very hearts within them died,\\nWhen, as the host drew nigher,\\nThey heard resound, in guttural notes,\\nThe name of Colonel Dyer\\nBut fiery Mars inspired a few,\\nWho stalwart were in frame,\\nTo meet the enemy in fight,\\nHis insolence to tame.\\nThey girded on their armor strong,\\nThey charged their guns with lead\\nTheir friends gave them the parting word,\\nAnd nmirned o er them as dead.", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30\\nAnd then this gallant company\\nMarched boldly up the hill,\\nResolved to quell the raging foe\\nHis fevered blood to spill.\\nThey reached the spot from whence was heard\\nThe fearful hue and cry,\\nAnd, though no murderous foe was seen,\\nThey let their powder fly.\\nEnsconced behind a granite wall,\\nThey poured a leaden rain\\nFrom blunderbuss and rusty gun,\\nAt random o er the plain.\\nBut strange to tell, the stupid foe,\\nReturned no answering fire\\nThey only bellowed louder still\\nThe name of Colonel Dyer\\nAnd when another volley spoke,\\nAnd cut through thick and thin,\\nThey bawled more loudly than before\\nThe name of Elderkin\\nThe courage of the Windham men\\nNow rose exceeding high,\\nAnd so they blazed away till dawn\\nLit up the eastern sky.\\nThe enemy dared not assail\\nThis valiant band at all,\\nBut screamed and groaned and shouted still,\\nBehind the granite wall.\\nPe-wwg-, pe-Mttg-, go-row, go-row\\nChug, chug, peep, peep and tee-tef\\nCease firing, boys, the Captain said,\\nThe dogs desire a treaty.", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "31\\nOur heroes rested on their arms,\\nTill morning s light revealed,\\nThe bodies of the prostrate frogs\\nStretched out upon the field.\\nBut when they saw their waste of shot\\nAnd fright had been in vain,\\nSome made a solemn vow that they\\nWould ne er bear arms again.\\nAnd they all returned with wiser heads\\nTo the heart of Windham town\\nWhile the remnant of the frogs went home,\\nAnd soon the rains came down.\\nAnd at this day when evening shades\\nEnvelope brakes and bogs,\\nThe tenants of that pond rehearse\\nThe battle of the frogs.\\nAnd to this day, each Windhamite\\nUnto his little son\\nRelates how on a summer s night,\\nThe Bull-Frog Fight was won.\\nThis tale is true, and years far hence\\nIt must be current still\\nFor bull-frogs two are pictured on\\nEach current Windham bill.*\\nSee bills of all denominations on the Windham (Conn.) Bank.", "height": "3385", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3317", "width": "2022", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3416", "width": "1805", "jp2-path": "battleoffrogsatw00weav_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "WILLIMAtfTIC BOOKSTORE. j\\nNEWS OFFICE, 1\\nAND i\\nPAPER-HANGING DEPOT,!\\nAT THE\\nISTEJ-W STORE,\\n[Three doors East of old stand in Franklin Building;)\\nWILLIMAISTIC, CONN.\\nJAMES WALDEN, (successor to W L. Weaver,) has\\nremoved to his new and commodious store, where he is pre-\\npared to do a much more extensive business than formerly.\\nSCHOOL-BOOKS,\\nSchool Stationery, and School Apparatus, including every\\narticle used in the school rooms of best quality.\\nSTATIONERY\\nOf every variety, at wholesale and retail.\\nNEW BOOKS\\nReceived as soon as published, with a good selection of .V\\ncellaneous and Standard Works constantly on hand.\\nPAPER HANGINGS,\\nBorders, Shades, Window Curtains, c, a large assortment at\\nall seasons, both Foreign and American.\\nNEWSPAPERS,\\nDaily and Weekly, with the Magazines, furnished at subscrip-\\ntion prices.\\nN. B. Dealers, Teachers, Committees, c., furnished at a\\nliberal discount.\\nDC/ 3 Orders promptly filled.\\nJ. 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