because there are gulls that _will not_ be so called; and _gudgeons_ who _won't_ believe in a pike till he swallows them up alive! Thus, while the fraud practised is great, the stir it makes, in consequence of these things, is small; and it becomes, therefore, the more necessary to apprise amateurs, that the money laid out to _learn_ experience may come to more than would purchase them a commission in the Guards! "Not to admire's the simplest art we know, To keep your fortune in its _statu quo_; Who holds loose cash, nor _cheques_ his changeling gold, Buy what he will, is certain to be _sold_." Much more had we to say in the way of advice to the untutored, but we refrain, for nobody has given us "salary, or chair;" and who, then, has given us the right to lecture "_ex cathedrâ_?" We throw out, therefore, no further "hints to freshmen," but proceed forthwith to describe a few of the more noted and sly of our antiquarian acquaintances in Italy. Some years back, we remember, all the English in Rome used to turn out a fox-hunting; it was considered an exploit, and so perhaps it was, to kill under the _Arc of Veii_, amidst the moist meadows of the Crembra; and to teach the Sabine Echo to respond from her hills to the sound of the British Tally-ho! Now, whilst the followers of the Chesterfield kennel sought their foxes _without_ the walls, we always knew where to look for ours _within_; and, whatever _their_ success, _we_ always _found_; nay, what may sound somewhat paradoxical, but is true nevertheless, the _more_ we hunted, the _more_ we found. Like their brothers of the "_brush_," _our_ Reynards were sly fellows too, and would double and dodge, and get away sometimes, just when we thought ourselves most sure of coming up with them--a few only we were fortunate enough to bag, and bring over in _our sack_ (_de nuit_) to England. We purpose now to turn a few loose for the reader's diversion, apprising him, however, that they are mostly _very old foxes_; and so cannot _run_ as far or as fast, or yield the same sport, that might have been expected had they been younger. The greatest age demands respect and precedency; and, as Venovali is the oldest, we will _dispatch_ him first. So ho! Venovali! THE AMERICANS AND THE ABORIGINES. A TALE OF THE SHORT WAR. PART I. I tremble for my people, when I think of the unjust acts of which they have been guilty towards the aborigines.--JEFFERSON.