Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1823-12-24

: bandon our follies and be altogether i'm
, proved by the discipline, and say witt
D him. 81 do begin to perceive that an
I made an ass" When the illusions of fan
: cy have once passed away, and the
chimeras dire" of a morbid imagina
ton have time to die of themselves
then Orchard is himself again. the
| patient has awaked from his distressing
dream, and like Rip Van Wrinkle, comes
, back again to the pleasures, and habits,
} and realities of the world, and smokes
his pipe and drinks his beer with as much
complacency as ever.
For my part, consider cheerfulness
one of the first of duties, as we'll as the
create st of earthly blessings; and it is
really ungrateful and absurd, TO allow a
sickly Imagination 10 prevail over the
better and stronger powers of our rea-
son, as it would be TO refuse all kinds
of food for the nourishment Of the body
because one particular kind does not a.
gree with US.
| Ihave friend whose baptismal name
is Zerubbabel (; his right-hand name
being Lackbliss, making together Ze-
rubbabel Lackbliss. Hearing the o.
Their morning. that Zerubbabel was
closely blockaded in his chamber by a
detachment of Blue Devils, made bold
to make my way through the besiegers
to relieve the garrison. When enter
ed the room | found it carefully dark
ened; so drawing back one Of the shut
ters, | perceived my poor friend lying
with one foot out Of bed his table COW
cred with bottles, boxes, cups and do
SEES; and his countenance-but that |
cannot describe.
! g. Rub p said
"Ho oh dear WHO'S that ?"
"Why Ruby have you forgotten
me %
"Oh !! | don't know-reach me that
lphial."
"My friend" said | what's your
complaint"
sob dear! every complaint in the
world. am feverish-giVe me some
water--l can't breathe the air-is-so-bad!
Rheumatc--whew land dreamiul."
Dreamtul?'
! ooh yes, dreamful! as if did not
suffer enough by day. had six dreams
last night /; and such dreams dreamt /
was dead and was put into box with
out clean shirt on-and had no mon
ey-and every body was laughing at
my slovenly corpse. And then dreamt
had a yellow fever-giVe me those
powders, Jaques-and could get no
doctor-and just as Lbegan to turn yell
low the house took fire from the heat
of my body--oh horrible! horrible -
look 10 the stove.-And then thought |
| had the northumberland sent for a
dentist, and he came with beetle aud
wedges TO open my gums. And sur
geon came too, and he laid my head up
ona blachsmith's anvil to beat out the
headache; and doctor came with a
bowl Of ipecac porridge -iasten the
door, good Jaques--and then there was
consultation Of nurses, and Tapping
OF mob caps, and a gathering of specta-
cles, and a nodding of chins, and wink
ing and pdi.ting, and shaking of heads,
f and Gathering of tongues and there
was dreadful storm without; and il
rained herb tea and the hail-stones
ratified against the windows, and they
were all Lees pills do close the shut
tiers again--it was all that COMPOUNDED
minced pie-look here now, have not
my sheets very bilious complexion,
where | have been lying? And then
oh dear %
"WelI," said |, I" what then ~
"Why--then awoke."
" Now Rub, my good fellow, get up
and take the air.,
, 1.-The air % said he, "lyou are mad
t The air, this gloomy day? hav'rt TAX.
en- it this week; 'twould poison me.''
swell its time you did,
/ l seized my disconsolate friend by
} main strength, and called to my assist.
: ance the whole posse of the family. In
r spite of fire and fever, poverty ant
powders, we deposited him in sleigh
and babe the coachmah drive.
The air grew, better. Ruby as he
!, got out of town, and felt the frosty
breeze from the north, did not so much
dread the yellow fever; his bilious com
plants abated. We rode TO Exeter ant
) dined he felt less of the pain in hi'
stomach, and no tooth-sche. We drank
bottle of Madeira, his rhumatism wa:
: quite gone. Wban the bill was presen.
ted, he felt richer, and paid it. We
returned rapidly, and spent the evening
with few friends; the ladies' we're q.
) greeable, and Ruby was not so leth.