I thought i would try a tragik lektur at fust, but tragediz are gitting so common, now a daze, that yu kan git them done, and warrented, for 25 dollars. Mi Lektur is the normal comick, with an okasional effort tew be witty. I hope you are well, and hav a good appetight. Remember me kindly tew Reub Fenton, when yu see him.--I also reseaved 2 letters bi to daez male, which i will let yu answer for me; thru yure valuable collums.--One ov them is from an individoal, who sines his name "Hennery," and tuther is from a person bi the name ov "Mirakle." _Hennery_:--The best time tew sett a hen, is when the hen is reddy. I kant tell you what the best breed is, but the shanghigh is the meanest. It kosts as mutch tew board one, as it duz a stage hoss, and yu mite as well undertake tew fat a fanning-mill, by running oats thru it. Thare aint no proffitt in keeping a hen for his eggs, if he laze less than one a day. Hens are very long lived, if they dont contrakt the thrut disseaze,--thare is a grate menny goes tew pot, evry year, bi this melankolly disseaze. I kant tell exactly how tew pick out a good hen, but as a genral thing, the long-eared ones, are kounted the best. The one-legged ones, i kno, are the lest ap tew skratch up the garden. Eggs packed in equal parts ov salt, and lime water, with the other end down, will keep from 30, or 40, years, if they are not disturbed. Fresh beef-stake is good for hens; i serpoze 4 or 5 pounds a day, would be awl a hen would need, at fust along. I shall be happee tew advise with yu, at enny time, on the hen question, and--take it in egg. _Mirakle_:--Yu sa "yu kant understand the mirakle ov the whale, that swallered Joner". I dont serpoze that Joner, nor the whale, ever fully understood it themselfs. I hav thought that it was eazyer for the whale tew swaller Joner, than it was for the outsiders, tew swaller the mirakel. I kant tell yu what Joner did while in the whale's sosiety; but i kno what a yankee would hav did, he would hav rigged a rudder on the animal, and run him into port, and either klaimed the ile for salvage, or sold out his chanse tew a petroleun grease company. LXXX. YANKEE NOSHUNS. The noshun that skule houzens are cheaper than stait prizens. The noshun that men are a better krop tew raize than enny thing else. The noshun that the whole wurld is the markit for a man's wits. The noshun that a people who hav branes enuff kant be governed bi enny body but themselfs. The noshun that if yu kant make a man think az yu do; try and make him do az yu think. The noshun that the United States iz liable at any time tew be doubled, but aint liable at enny time tew be divided. The noshun that Uncle Sam kan thrash hiz own children when tha need it, and kan thrash the hole wurld besides. The noshun that Yankees are a fourordained rase, and kant be kept from spredding, and striking in, enny more than turpentine kan when it once gits luce. LXXXII. ATTENTION! SQUAD!