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Anecdotes.
portals . The professor making up to the beast gravely " doffed his cap , " and saluting it said— " 1 fear , sir , you has'e made a mistake ; next door , I should presume , is your direction , " pointing to St . John ' s College . Lord Byron svhen at Cambridge svas in the habit of keeping a bear tied up in his room , svhich svas a cause of great offence to the big-wigs . On his lordship quitting the university , he left his animal still tied up , svith a message to the fellosvs of his society , suggesting " that if they permitted bruin to continue there long enough , he svould be sure to obtain a fellosvship . " LITHOI / RGOS .
MASONIC *—Another Brother svho svas present , but svhose name I do not remember , in the course of the evening related the follosving anecdote , svhich he had from a Brother of Nesv Jersey , svho had been present as a captain of infantry , under the command of the late Grand Alaster , Gen . Lesvis , at the capture of Fort George , during the last svar . " The British troops had been informed that orders had been given to the American soldiers , to give no quarter . This probably hatl been done
for the mere purpose of inducing them to fight svith greater desperation , and to prevent desertion . After Captain Arrosvsmith ' s company had landed and formed , he led them to the charge . The British troops retired as the Americans advanced , leaving a young officer svounded directly in the line of Arrosvsmith ' s company . As they approached he arose on one leg ( the other svas broken ) , and attempted to get out of their svay , believing they svould bayonet him if he did not ; but unable
to accomplish his purpose he fell , but turning to them as he sat on the ground , he gave the soul-thrilling appeal of a Mason . Captain Arrosvsmith described his feelings at that moment as the most extraordinary lie hatl ever experienced . I felt , said lie , as if the hairs of my head stood upright antl held my hat off my head . The Captain hosvever immediately called out to him , ' Don ' t be afraid , my brave fellosv , you sha ' n ' t be hurt . ' He ordered his men to pass lineand as they did so
, , the young man begged him to send him a surgeon . Soon after he sasv a surgeon , and informed him that a friend of his , svith a red coat on , lay wounded in the rear near a certain bush , and requested him to attend to him , which was immediately done . Arrosvsmith svas svounded in the head during the battle , and soon aftersvards laid by the side of his friend ss'ith the red coat , svhere they had time to cultivate an intimate friendship , svhich lasted for many years . "
[\ An esteemed Brother , at the close of a letter recently received from him , gives us the follosving anecdote , wliich sve think svorthy of preservation . —En . A . AI . II . ] " P . S . My dear Hoffman—the fo'dosving anecdote has been related to me svithin a fesv days . The individual from svhom I received it is nosv an old man , about sixty-one or sixty-tsvo years of age . He says , in the year 1805 he shipped as a lad on board a vessel called the
Roverbelong-, ing to St . John ' s , osvned by Hugh Johnson , Esq ., and commanded by James Holley , and svere bound to the bay of Honduras , from Kingston to the island of Jamaica . That one night about the middle svatch , they syere surprised , overposvered , and captured , in almost as short a time as it took him to relate the same , bv a French privateer . All hands svere
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Anecdotes.
portals . The professor making up to the beast gravely " doffed his cap , " and saluting it said— " 1 fear , sir , you has'e made a mistake ; next door , I should presume , is your direction , " pointing to St . John ' s College . Lord Byron svhen at Cambridge svas in the habit of keeping a bear tied up in his room , svhich svas a cause of great offence to the big-wigs . On his lordship quitting the university , he left his animal still tied up , svith a message to the fellosvs of his society , suggesting " that if they permitted bruin to continue there long enough , he svould be sure to obtain a fellosvship . " LITHOI / RGOS .
MASONIC *—Another Brother svho svas present , but svhose name I do not remember , in the course of the evening related the follosving anecdote , svhich he had from a Brother of Nesv Jersey , svho had been present as a captain of infantry , under the command of the late Grand Alaster , Gen . Lesvis , at the capture of Fort George , during the last svar . " The British troops had been informed that orders had been given to the American soldiers , to give no quarter . This probably hatl been done
for the mere purpose of inducing them to fight svith greater desperation , and to prevent desertion . After Captain Arrosvsmith ' s company had landed and formed , he led them to the charge . The British troops retired as the Americans advanced , leaving a young officer svounded directly in the line of Arrosvsmith ' s company . As they approached he arose on one leg ( the other svas broken ) , and attempted to get out of their svay , believing they svould bayonet him if he did not ; but unable
to accomplish his purpose he fell , but turning to them as he sat on the ground , he gave the soul-thrilling appeal of a Mason . Captain Arrosvsmith described his feelings at that moment as the most extraordinary lie hatl ever experienced . I felt , said lie , as if the hairs of my head stood upright antl held my hat off my head . The Captain hosvever immediately called out to him , ' Don ' t be afraid , my brave fellosv , you sha ' n ' t be hurt . ' He ordered his men to pass lineand as they did so
, , the young man begged him to send him a surgeon . Soon after he sasv a surgeon , and informed him that a friend of his , svith a red coat on , lay wounded in the rear near a certain bush , and requested him to attend to him , which was immediately done . Arrosvsmith svas svounded in the head during the battle , and soon aftersvards laid by the side of his friend ss'ith the red coat , svhere they had time to cultivate an intimate friendship , svhich lasted for many years . "
[\ An esteemed Brother , at the close of a letter recently received from him , gives us the follosving anecdote , wliich sve think svorthy of preservation . —En . A . AI . II . ] " P . S . My dear Hoffman—the fo'dosving anecdote has been related to me svithin a fesv days . The individual from svhom I received it is nosv an old man , about sixty-one or sixty-tsvo years of age . He says , in the year 1805 he shipped as a lad on board a vessel called the
Roverbelong-, ing to St . John ' s , osvned by Hugh Johnson , Esq ., and commanded by James Holley , and svere bound to the bay of Honduras , from Kingston to the island of Jamaica . That one night about the middle svatch , they syere surprised , overposvered , and captured , in almost as short a time as it took him to relate the same , bv a French privateer . All hands svere