After dinner we again entered upon our journey--my wife in good-humor--Miss _Jenny's_ toothache much easier--various chat--I acknowledge everything my wife says for fear of discomposing her. We arrive in good time at Princetown. My wife and daughter admire the College. We refresh ourselves with tea, and go to bed early, in order to be up by times for the next day's expedition. In the morning we set off again in tolerable good-humor, and proceeded happily as far as _Rocky-hill_. Here my wife's fears and terrors returned with great force. I drove as carefully as possible; but coming to a place where one of the wheels must unavoidably go over the point of a small rock, my wife, in a great fright, seized hold of one of the reins, which happening to be the wrong one, she pulled the horse so as to force the wheel higher up the rock than it would otherwise have gone, and overset the chair. We were all tumbled hickledy-pickledy, into the road--Miss _Jenny's_ face all bloody--the woods echo to her cries--my wife in a fainting-fit--and I in great misery; secretly and most devoutly wishing cousin _Snip_ at the devil. Matters begin to mend--my wife recovers--Miss _Jenny_ has only received a slight scratch on one of her cheeks--the horse stands quite still, and none of the harness broke. Matters grew worse again; the twine with which the bandbox was tied had broke in the fall, and the aforesaid wire-cap lay soaking in a nasty mudpuddle--grievous lamentations over the wire-cap--all my fault because I did not tie it better--no remedy--no wire-caps to be bought at _Rocky-hill_. At night my wife discovered a small bruise on her hip--was apprehensive it might mortify--did not know but the bone might be broken or splintered--many instances of mortifications occasioned by small injuries. After passing unhurt over the imminent dangers of _Passayack_ and _Hackensack_ rivers, and the yet more tremendous horrors of _Pawlas-hook_ ferry, we arrived, at the close of the third day, at cousin _Snip's_ in the city of New York. Here we sojourned a tedious week; my wife spent as much money as would have maintained my family for a month at home, in purchasing a hundred useless articles _which we could not possibly do without_; and every night when we went to bed fatigued me with encomiums on her cousin _Snip_; leading to a history of the former grandeur of her family, and concluding with insinuations that I did not treat her with the attention and respect I ought.