to bear their honors and misfortunes, with unassuming and unrepining philosophy. The discovery of his situation however, called for the exercise of his sagacity, and he modestly declined receiving the money, only saying, that he preferred it should rest for the time agreed on. IN A QUANDARY. As soon as his debtor had gone out, he thrust his hands in his pockets, his eyes resting on the floor in front, and sticking out his lips, in a way which no other man does, he muttered to himself “I’m in a bear-trap—this won’t do. The dogs will ‘come over’ me. I shall be mulct in a loss. But I’ve got time—I’ll turn the scale, I’ll help the bulls, operate for a rise, and draw in the flunkies.” These men, I should have said before, have no other rule of judgment for their operations than to follow in the wake of some great and successful speculator. Mr. T. very properly regards them as sheep for the slaughter; and although the milk of human kindness certainly is a component of his heart, he makes no scruple of sacrificing a score of them at a time. Why should he? for killed and eaten they certainly will be by somebody: but they are a genitive race, and re-produce as fast as destroyed. WORKS OUT BY DRAWING OTHERS IN. Mr. T. had need of no further exertion, to accomplish his purpose, than to make his course _manifest to them_, they all followed his apparent lead, as sheep will follow one another over a wall, if they all fall into a ditch on the other side. Even the wise man of Israel, by his own confession, did not know every thing. “The way of the serpent on the rock was too wonderful even for _him_,” and so in this case; the way of their leader was to them, “past finding out.” But the secret of the management necessary, in this case, is, to do just the opposite of what one appears to do. Mr. T. therefore continued to operate visibly for a fall, by selling out small sums for future delivery, which he took care to have trumpeted by another, while he was very reserved himself. He thus drew all the “flunkies” after him, as _they_ supposed, while he was in reality the purchaser, through his agents, of all that they contracted to sell, and by this means, before the expiration of the loan, he was in possession of the stock to deliver, with a difference of ten thousand dollars in his favor, against the flunkies. EVILS OF TALKING IN SLEEP. These things would never have been known, but that T. sometimes talks in his sleep, and while chuckling over the ruse de guerre, he recounted the whole story, and was overheard by his chum, who thought the joke too good to be lost. HOW BROKERS SOMETIMES FAIL.