Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-11-13

cares preserved me; your arms were
my first cradle; your breasts sucked
me; your garments covered me: YOUR
bosom warmed me; your kisses eonso,.
ed me; and your caresses reioiced me.
You allowed me to be withdrawn from
you, only to take me again with increas-
ed ardoF. Oh, M fasher! Or. NV mo.
Their! your benefits surpass The stars in
number; Trey are more measureless
than the heavens; and tie intensity of.
my gratitude SERVES only to Cypress nd
with sense of my misery. ahe Greas
mountain Of Nan Clian lifts its ma ni.i-
cent summit to the skies. q perpetual
zephyr watts thither freshness and plen-
ty; its inhabitants abound IN riches
Why an | tie only son overwilelme ed in
food of eyilsi Why am l the only
one drowned in tears? Win their snrine
never be dried up' Oh, mountain OF
Nan Chan, how the sight Of thee incrsa-
ses my grief, and exasperates my desc
pair! Thy elevation astonishes the spec
tators. Every season layishes upon thee
new pleasures, and loads thee with
wealth. All who dwell upon thee follow
their own inclinations, and enjoy the
sweets of life. Why must no hope sus-
pend ny sighs7 Alasi I am the only
son in the universe who can render no
succour to the old age Of his parents"
From Brooks's n arsts 10 TIE North Cape
"The putin, Greenland parrot, cal
led in Norwegian iusd, breeds here.
(Carlsoe) in great numbers. The man
ner of catching them is curious,
being by means OF small dogs trained
to the sport. The puffins, sitting ,toge-
Their in prodigious numbers in the deep
holes and cletts Of the highest rocks, one
of these dogs is sent in, which seizes the
first by its wing. This, to prevent its
being carried away, lays hold with its
strong beak OF the bird next to it, which
in Ike manaer seizes the neighbour
and the dog continuing to draw them
out an extraordinary string of these birds
fall intp the hands of the fowler. They
are taken for their feathers, which are
valuable"
This is parallel to DIR. Henderson's
story Of the foxes in his Icelandic ira
yels {:
IN the vicinity Of the North Cape,''
says the Doosor, where the precipices
are almost entirely covered with a spe-
cies of sea-feal, the foxes proceed on
their predatory expeditions in company
and previous to the commencement of
these, they hold kind Of mock fight up
on the rocks, in order to determine their
relative strength. When this has been
fairly assertained, they advance to the
brink of the precipice, and taking each
other by the tail the weakest decends
first, while the strongest forming the last
in the row. suspends the whole number,
till the foremost has reached their prey.
A signal is then given, on which the up
permost pulls with all his might and the
rest assist him as well as they can with
their feet against the rocks; in this man.
ner they proceed from rock to rock UNI
til they have provided themselves with
a sufficient supply"
Far be it from us to question the facts
stated by various travellers, who GER
tainly see strange sights. Well do we
know that many honest assertions have
been disbelieved till time proved their
truth. Poor Bruce died almost mar
tyr 10 the r,iseries inflicted upon him by
the imput atoms on his Abyssinian. state
ments, which have nevertheless been all
most entirely confirmed by later authori-
ties since his death. We shall not.
therefore hastily class the tales of puffin-
catching in strings, and fox-hunting pen
dulatory, with an ancient aneedote which
ased.to please our younger days. 1t was
ola gentleman so VIGOROUSLY addicted
to exagsration, that his servant was in
structed to checkhim by jog, when
ever he found bin lapsing into too wide
an indulgence Of bis propensity. One
day he was telling ola fox which he had
seen with a nonstrous long brush--a
brush he assured{he company, at least
a mile in length. John gave his master
a jog. "Well," said he, lit might not be
quite so much, but am sure it was half
mite 5" another jog)-"or if not, it
must have been quarter"-(jog again.
I'll be Id if it was not a hundred
Yards lorg'-lanother jog) Fifty
jog again. The poor gentleman could
ear 1t no more, but, starting up, he ex-
claim, j ye, you rascal, win We
et my fox have no tail at all !''
a countryman passing overthe Pont {
Nenf at fans, and seeing, among
'eap OF shops full Of merchandise, th.t
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