of the U.S." (_Columbian Centinel_, March 14, 1807, p. 2-3). But while, as thus seen, the initials U. S. were perfectly familiar to Americans in 1812 and 1813, yet no doubt the war with England made them still more common. Attention may also be called to the example of "U.Sam" quoted on p. 37, above. [112] Page 22. A copy of the opera in the Ridgway branch of the Library Company of Philadelphia has written in ink on the title page, "by Col. Thomas Forrest of Germantown. S." Who "S." was, I do not know. John F. Watson also stated that "Mr. Forrest wrote a very humorous play, (which I have seen printed)" (Annals of Philadelphia, 1830, p. 232). [113] _New York Journal_, October 13, 1768, p. 2-2. [114] Collections, Historical and Miscellaneous; and Monthly Literary Journal, III, 158, 159. [115] It is in a collection of Songs, Ballads, etc., in three volumes, presented to the Society by Isaiah Thomas in August, 1814, and stated by him to have been "Purchased from a Ballad Printer and Seller, in Boston, 1813. Bound up for Preservation--to shew what the articles of this kind are in vogue with the Vulgar at this time, 1814." In 1903 the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale printed this version in his New England History in Ballads, pp. 116-120. [116] My attention was called to this in 1901 by Mr. Worthington C. Ford, who kindly sent me a blue print of it. As the library officials have for years been unable to find the volume containing the original, my blue print is valuable. The title, and the fact that at the top of the broadside is a cut of a drummer and three soldiers, make me think that this version is older than the other. [117] By earlier, I merely mean that it was printed earlier. The words of the two versions are practically identical. [118] Historical Magazine, I, 92. [119] The Contrast, Act III, Scene i, p. 45. For purposes of comparison, I give the first stanza. Tyler has it: "Father and I went up to camp, Along with Captain Goodwin; And there we saw the men and boys, As thick as hasty-pudding." The version owned by this Society reads: "Father and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Gooding, And there we see the men and boys, As thick as hastypudding." The Farmer and Moore version is as follows: "Father and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Goodwin, Where we _see_ the men and boys As thick as Hasty-_puddin_." It is of course possible that my blue print is earlier than 1789, but its date is purely conjectural. Dr. Hale writes: "An autograph note of Judge Dawes, of the Harvard class of 1777, addressed to my father, says that the author of the well-known lines was Edward Bangs, who graduated with him." It is curious that some (but not all) of the lines should have first been printed in a play written by a member of the Harvard class of 1776.