EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I saw the other day in the CRIMSON a stanza of an old ballad, about which it may interest your readers to know more. It was composed by Jabez Allen of Stoneham. This Allen was a hard character generally, who took a particular delight in pulling down the dam which flowed Spot Pond meadows, owned by one Timothy Sprague. On one occasion while he was at his usual sport, Sprague saw him, and ordered him to desist, whereupon he wounded Sprague with a charge of buckshot. Either for this or for some other escapade, he was sentenced to sit for several hours upon the gallows, of course at the county jail in Cambridge; and he occupied his time in composing rhymes of which the following is a specimen:

"Some call me Jaby Alien,

And others call me Medes,

And here I sit upon the gallows

For all my evil deeds.

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"O that I were the judge,

Now in poor Jaby's case;

I'd have poor Jaby out of jail,

And have old Tim Sprague in his place.

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"Old Cambridge is a mighty place

For learning and for knowledge,

For some they whip, and some they hang,

And some they send to college."

The date given in your previous issue cannot by correct, as Timothy Sprague lived between 1700 and 1765.

C.