experience, so far as the Massachusetts calendar, and Bowditch’s navigator, and Daboll’s arithmetic go.

Signs and wonders, eh? Pity if there is nothing wonderful in signs, and significant in wonders! There’s a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist — hark! By Jove, I have it! Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter; and now I’ll read it off, straight out of the book. Come, Almanack! To begin: there’s Aries, or the Ram — lecherous dog, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull — he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins — that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo!

Comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path