The longest Stunnin'tun eclipses seldom went over three hours--he once knew Deacon Spiteful pray quite through one, from apogee to perigee.

He therefore proposed that Sir John and he should resign their seats without delay, and that they should try to get the Walrus to the north'ard as quick as possible, lest they should be caught in the polar night.

As for the Hon.

Robert Smut, he wished him no better luck than to remain where he was all his life, and to receive his eight dollars a day in acorns." Although it was impossible not to hear, and, having heard, not to record the sentiments of Noah, still my attention was much more strongly attracted by the demeanor of the brigadier, than by the jeremiad of the sealer.

To an anxious inquiry if he were not well, our worthy colleague answered plaintively, that he mourned over the misfortune of his country.
"I have often witnessed the passage of the passions, and of the minor motives, across the disc of the great moral postulate, Principle; but an occultation of its light by a pecuniary Interest, and for so long a period, is fearful! Heaven only knows what will become of us!" "Are not these eclipses, after all, so many mere illustrations of the social-stake system?
I confess this occultation, of which you seem to have so much dread, is not so formidable a thing, on reflection, as it at first appeared to be." "You are quite right, Sir John, as to the character of the eclipse itself, which, as a matter of course, must depend on the character of the intervening body.