I was rid on a rale the next day, a bunch of blazin fire crackers bein tied to my coat tales.  It was a fine spectycal in a dramatic pint of view, but I didn't enjoy it.  I had other adventers of a startlin kind, but why continner?  Why lasserate the Public Boozum with these here things?  Suffysit to say I got across Mason & Dixie's line safe at last.  I made tracks for my humsted, but she to whom I'm harnist for life failed to recognize, in the emashiated bein who stood before her, the gushin youth of forty-six summers who had left her only a few months afore.  But I went into the pantry, and brought out a certin black bottle.  Raisin it to my lips, I sed "Here's to you, old gal!"  I did it so natral that she knowed me at once.  "Those form!  Them voice!  That natral stile of doin things!  'Tis he!" she cried, and rushed into my arms.  It was too much for her & she fell into a swoon.  I cum very near swoundin myself. No more to-day from yours for the Pepetration of the Union, and the bringin of the Goddess of Liberty out of her present bad fix. ____________________ FOURTH OF JULY ORATION. Delivered July 4th, at Weathersfield, Connecticut, 1859. ____________________ [I delivered the follerin, about two years ago, to a large and discriminating awjince.  I was 96 minits passin a givin pint.  I have revised the orashun, and added sum things which makes it approposser to the times than it otherwise would be.  I have also corrected the grammers and punktooated it.  I do my own punktooatin now days.  The Printers in "Vanity Fair" offiss can't punktooate worth a cent.] FELLER CITIZENS: I've bin honored with a invite to norate before you to-day; and when I say that I skurcely feel ekal to the task, I'm sure you will believe me. Weathersfield is justly celebrated for her onyins and patritism the world over, and to be axed to paws and address you on this my fust perfeshernal tower threw New Englan, causes me to feel--to feel--I may say it causes me to FEEL. (Grate applaws.  They thought this was one of my eccentricities, while the fact is I was stuck.  This between you and I.) I'm a plane man.  I don't know nothin about no ded languages and am a little shaky on livin ones.  There4, expect no flowry talk from me.  What I shall say will be to the pint, right strate out.