The following story of "Life in Kentucky" being in print ought, of course to be believed:--"Early one morning the shouts and cries of a female were heard. All ran to the spot. When they arrived they saw a man and a bear engaged in combat. They had it hip and thigh, up and down, over and under, the man's wife standing by and hallooing 'fair play.' The company ran up and insisted on parting them. 'No, no,' said the woman, 'let them fight it out; for it's the first fight I ever saw that I didn't care which whipped!'" AMERICAN PROVERBS AND SIMILES.--670. AMBITION is as hollow as the soul of an echo. TIDE, steamboats, and soda-water will wait for no one. BIG feet, like a leather shirt, are more for use than ornament. MONEY slips from the fingers like a water-melon seed, travels without legs, and flies without wings. IT is the lot of humanity to err at times, as the drunken man said when he mistook the pig-pen for his bedroom. A GOOD deed will stick out, with an inclination to spread, like the tail of a peacock. YOU might as well undertake to whistle a grape-vine from a white oak, as to induce a girl to relinquish her lover. SIMILES.--671. AS big as all out of doors. AS dry as the clerk of a lime-kiln. AS long as a thanksgiving sermon. AS crooked as a Virginian fence. AS straight as a loon's leg. AS straight as a shingle. AS sharp as the little end of nothing. AS slick as greased lightning. AS swelling as a basket of chips. AS happy as a clam at high water. AS tight as the bark of a tree. AS crazy as a bed-bug. AS mad as all wrath. AS wrathy as a militia officer on a training-day. AS proud as a tame turkey. AS melancholy as a Quaker meeting-house by moonlight. AS useless as whistling psalms to a dead horse. LIKE all nature. LIKE all fury. LIKE all possessed. THRASHING round, like a short-tailed bull in fly-time. HEAD and tail up, like chicken cocks in laying-time. INDEX. PAGE Absence of Mind, 50, 52, 85 Abstraction, 187 Adopting the Other Course, 158 Advantage of Burning Two Candles, 2 Advice to Doctors, 179 Advice to Parents, 49 After Joining Church, 43 Agreeable Customer, An, 19 Agreeing with all the Girls, 134 Agricultural Returns, 202 Aids to Memory, 184 All-Healing, 200 All Human, 87 All Well, 41 Amende Honourable, 177 American Competition, 152 American Curiosity, 176 American Definitions, 152 American Estimate of their Clergy, 9 American Help, An, 174 American Notion of Villany, 94 American Platform, 86 American Proverbs, 207 American Similes, 207 American Soil, 149 "And That's a Fact", 104 Angler Caught, The, 201 Another Burst of Eloquence, 109 Another Discovery, 96 Answered at Once, 189 Answering an Advertisement, 168 Antediluvian Diet, 61 Any Better than None, 154 Any Relations, 140 Appropriate Gift, An, 115 Apt Pupil, An, 205 Artistic Execution, 146 Awkward Coincidence, 95