12 barrels pitch 1 box fine beaver hats 118 covered hams 100 boxes cheese 2 casks of shoulders 3 doz. Windsor chairs 30 barrels pilot bread 16 nurses’ rocking chairs 10 do. navy do. 8 ladies’ cane do. 30-3 do. sugar biscuits 1 doz. children’s do. 20-3 do. soda 49 barrels potatoes 20-3 crackers 18¼ gross lucifer matches 50 kegs lard 1 mahogany spring-seat sofa 30 blls. mess pork 1 do. wash-stand, marble top 100 kegs butter 3 boxes stationery 13 boxes lump tobacco 4 backgammon boards 20 do. champagne cider 12 bridles 20 doz. buckets 22½ doz. black ink in boxes 50 boxes soap, 24 lbs. 1 mahogany spring-seat, rocking chair 700 do. 16 lbs. 2 wooden arm chairs 50 do. mould candles 17 do. do. Offers in cash, or negotiable notes, 1 o’clock. From the store we will take a walk into the lumber yard. But before I proceed to describe it, it will be necessary for me to make another digression, and let those of my readers who may be yet ignorant of the real meaning of the term know what “lumber” is. Upon my first acquaintance with West Indians, I was particularly surprised to hear them talk so much about _lumber_, and of Mr. This and Mr. That dealing in such commodity. As my mind has ever been apt to roam far and wide, I no sooner heard the merits of this peculiar article (if I may so call it) discussed, than my schooldays’ tasks presented themselves to my recollection, and I mentally murmured with Dr. Johnson, “lum-ber, lumber, old useless furniture.” Having arrived at this definition, again I fancied myself amid broken chairs and tables, sofas minus a leg, shattered looking-glasses, musty, dusty, rusty, grates, antique bottles, and similar chattels, where in one of my hoyden days I had scrambled to look for a bird-cage in which to imprison a poor half-fledged skylark, captured for me by a little ragged _protégé_ of mine, known by the true English name of “Bill.” Yet still I was not satisfied; for what, thought I, can West Indian merchants find so particularly valuable in all these divers specimens of mutilation, as to induce them to deal so largely in them? I could only answer mine own query by exclaiming “’tis strange! ’tis passing strange!” Time wore on, however, and I arrived at Antigua; then my wonder soon ceased, and I found out that in fact a _lumber merchant_ signifies nothing less than a dealer in _timber_.