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Show 14 PERSONAL ADVENTURES that prolonged the lives of the patriarchs to the ao·e of the oak, and enabled them to 0 people half the earth.'' '' De'i· teujelltoltl dicit-you tamt charlatan!" " You licensed practitioners are obstinate creatures. You fancy you know all about pathology and physiology, whilst you actually create the diseases you pretend to treat. I cannot help saying that a more ignorant and benighted set " Here this complimentary allocution was suddenly brought to a termination, by a camp stool, which the Doctor's returning strength had placed 'vi thin his reach, describing sundry gyrations round the Yankee's head, and putting him effectually to flight. One of the most popular men of the detachment, owing to the amusement which he afforded us, was Johnny Broghan, as genial a little soul as ever ripened into mellowness under the cornbined influence of love and wine, with a rubicund and oleaginous countenance, stuck forward like an excrescence on a short, puffy figure, and resembling as nearly IN CALIFORNIA. 15 as possible, in his ensemble, that lusus of vegetation, a double potato. He had been originally a farmer in Canada, but being unfortunate in his speculations, he had,_ with characteristic 'vant of judgment, made choice of a military career. l-Ie entered a tnilitia regiment in his native province, but, being troubled with a couple of physical peculiarities, which brought hitn more frequently than was desirable under the notice of his commanding officer, namely, an inability to march in straight lines, or from a defect in the tympanum, to catch the voice of his superiors in the field, he received and gladly accepted an intimation from his Colonel that, as nature had not qualified him to advance the glory of the British arms, he would do well to transfer his services to some other pursuit. What his motives were for again embracing a profession in which he had cut so unhappy a figure, we never could make out, for his ancient infirrnities seemed to have increased instead of diminished; his mode of progression, owing to another little weakness that had |