Among my receipts at the box-office this night were--

20 bushels of wheat.

5 bushels of corn.

4 bushels of potatoes.

2 bushels of oats.

4 bushels of salt.

2 hams.

1 live pig (Dr. Hingston chained him in the box-office.)

1 wolf-skin.

5 pounds of honey in the comb.

16 strings of sausages--2 pounds to the string.

1 cat-skin.

1 churn (two families went in on this; it is an ingenious churn,

and fetches butter in five minutes by rapid grinding.)

1 set of children's under-garments, embroidered.

1 firkin of butter.

1 keg of apple-sauce.

One man undertook to pass a dog (a cross between a Scotch terrier

and a Welsh rabbit) at the box-office, and another presented a

German-silver coffin-plate, but the Doctor very justly repulsed

them both.

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