What Was He?

jolly younc f.-llow i;orcoran, wiiou no amveu ui turn ountry, somo years ainoe, propoi .. ' -1 :i to the grutt' old clerk in tho New York Ciiy Hall, whiol red to bavu shoitened tbat official's days. Corcoran went up to the oflico for hia ' ftrst papers." Tho deputy was a sorou8 uld uh.ap, wlio, without ever look.ng upi prooeodod to put tbo formal iu Joliü Corcoran," " Youx ago ï " '■'i".iy AVhat nativity ? " ""Woll, tbat's what bot! Hl t, 1! yon, and paaj ■" "ae 't lut[rish, niy mi i : glisli, irn on boav! of U Dutch frigate, uader the i ag, in Fl i waters. Now ! The old clert ' ;.I lowly ■ JToung man, y on r nativity and thafe of youi Bavior aru tho ( nly ones nat uver puzzled me."