Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-06-07
NIAXIMS.

MAXIMS.
Fauatacism is Always the child of
persecution.
When man has lost his word he
has lost every thing which distinguish
es the man from the brute.
Iii is always dishonorable and base to
belle the unfortunate, and doubly so
when in your power, and when you
hold paddock upon the mouth to pre-.
vent reply.
When mans time comes he must
go. When destiny wills it must be o.
beyed
In order to have good soldiers ma
ton must always be at war. 4 Gene
raj ought to act with his soldiers as he
would wish should be done to himself
My nindis free. am just as indie
pendent as when commanded an ar
my of six hundred thousand men. This
heart lie as FREQ as when | gave laws to
Europe.
Among the characters represented
by the celebrated Matthews, in his in-
iDitable performances, Is one of an En-
glrsb Cfhcer Of some note, a brave fel.
low, but an outrageous story teller
The name we do not learn, but the lot
ter from which this is an extract, re-
published in the Port Folio from one Of
the English Literary Magazines, is
meant TO hit off the same person, who
ID distinguished by the name of Major
Longbow. If it makes the reader
laugh right heartily our purpose will
be accomplished. lPiAoge Record.
Poetieot Prosings by Najor LrcngboaD.
THE DAVID AND HE GOAT.
MsRYDDGwDYTwLLY
North Yates. l2th Oct. 1925.
Nh dear Editor, Here 1 am just
arrived, all safe and sound, rump steak
broiling below, while | keep my word
and write directly TO stay.-why the
devil dent you meet me al Brighton ?
Kept q seat for you in the tilbury.
mounted George ON thu charger, and
Drove Gunpowder in harness. Never
SET behind a beast that went better;
drove ten thousand horses in my time,
and never had sgsh \ beauty before:
all blood, bone. fire and action: been
five and fifty miles day for the last
weeks, and never stumbled Hill or
turnpike roads, all the came pace, and
bolts at nothing bot an old woman with
-,
What will you lay its a iis9
Since saw YOU, been all over the
three kingdoms, England, Scotland,
and Ireland seen them all, Laurenkirk,
Prestonpabs, Strathbogie, and Edin-
burgh Castle! Rallyshannon, Lonek.
lofty, Mullingar, Cork and Dublin
Eeen up all the inaccessible mountains,
slept in Finsal's cave, and swan over
the lake of Killarney! Wet weather
all the time was out, not single dry
day tho whole three months, but |
couldn't hurt me hard as marble
never was i'll in my life, and never took
a dose of physic You know my muscie,
doubts jointed Finest piece of anatomy
on the face of the earth Hercules was
fool to me. 'pon my life it's true
What will you lay its lie ?-Bought |
ten score of !rish black cattle, for my
cousin Hsrry's farm in Norfolk: all |
prime beasts;such horns and tails One |
OF them tossed me thirty feet over a
hay stack! Would have killed any DO.
dy else, couldn't hurt me sup went,
down came, pitched plump into my
arm chair at the dinner table! Moth
ing to what met with in the East In,
dies once, at my Bungalow near Bntty-
gar. walking one morning with Colo.
mel Rampant, met one of my red bulls,
none of your little English breed-big
as rhiDoeeros, and strong as an ele
plant! Away went tie colonei, -"fy,"
says |, IL WILL" says he, and left me
to face him, walked leisurely to the
hedge, fSe and twenty feet high, could
have cleared that at jump, but no
stood my ground and met him manful.
ly- bull came up, seized me by the
middle, and over went, another bull
on the other side caught mo on his
horns and tossed me back again first
flung me over to the second. and there
was /, pitched backwards and forwards