Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-03-17

ilteS ever IoFeIen0 from you anu yours
and one of your debtors should come in
"a thing not at all probable with "a
smiling face, and after the due saluta-
tions of the morning, say in very com
PLEASANT tone, "Pleas Sir to make out
my bill with what alacrity would
you drop you book? You would say,
we'll it is the most apropos thing in the
world you would make out his bill
with lightened heart; because you
already see, in anticipation, the hand
some and neatly executed bills of the
Perkins check plate stamp; or you
already hear the music of the Spanish
milled dollars striking in sweetest mel
ody upon your ear But no such thing
1t is only anticipation that you hear! for
the impenetrable debtor with the ut
most sang froid coolly asks you to write
a note A NOTE!
" Like Ajax's sullen ghost you stalk away"
Most ofus have had our expectations
raised and our appetites sharpened !;
g the man who lives by hope will die by
hunger" after long and dreary and
rough days ride in the country, over
posts and rocks and precipices-with
the agreeable anticipation of a good
supper when we arrive at the tavern;
and good bed to boot. How eften do
the most reasonable anticipations fail
US! The anticipated Coffee turns into
vile Bohea Tea, and the poultry and
ham into rancid pork and watery po-
tatoes the bed too how many lively
and hunger-bitten tenants welcome you
to your dread repose.
Yet it is not the youthful enthusiast,
the credulous haberdasher in tickets,
the con6ding creditor, nor the hungry
traveller only, that buy "golden opin-
ions" of anticipation. The disappoint-
ment of the farmer who has carried his
produce to market--before he has rails
ed it; the modification of the candidate
for Office who gets majority-except
one vote; of the poet who writes sweet
verses that nobody reads-but himself;
of the player who struts his hour be-
fore a-beggarly account of empty
boxes-and of the patriot who is ready
to die for the good of his country--when
his time comes; are worthy of record,
for all are whipped by the scorpions Of
disappointed anticipation. To say moth,
ing of
~" The lover;
Signing like furnace, with woeful ballard
Made to his mistress eyebrow -
or the Haunting and confident belle who
spends unnecessary hours at the toilet,
nor of the dandy who tortures his head
and body into all sorts of shapes for the
sake of beauty. In vain anticipation
is still miIe-a-head Of reality--Cour-
teous and good natured Il hate ill nature)
reader in Specification of my kindness
proffer to thee my naked right hand,
vpishing, peradventure, you may enjoy
in reality the blessings of good con-
science-a good purse-good friends
and good temper. JACQUES.
WITTIclsMs, &c.-When Major. Gen.
eral Sir John Malcolm returned the
first time from Persia, at a fashionable
and crowded at home," he met Mad
anne de Stael. After being introduced
to Madame, and she informed of his
late arrival from the Persian Court.
Sare john" said she, you must
inform me all about Persia and every
ting about it, and all you saw zport no.
tice and, to begin at de top of all,
what is de King of Persia like? what
does he look like % Madam re-
piled Sir john, he looks like man
worthy of his destiny" 4" well, and
what is his destiny p entreated Ma
dame. 4" He has," replied Sir John,
i" five hundred wives!''
A WOODEN HERo.-In Ciaude's reply
TO Arnaud, the French Papist, we are
told that it was the humour of the
Prince Of Condo TO have a man of GOOD
on horseback, dressed like a field Off
Ger, with a lifted broad sword in his
hand, which figure was fastened in the
great saddle, and the horse it was on
always kept by the great Condos side,
when he travelled, or engaged in the
bloody tied.-Fearless the man of1vood
appeared in many well-fought battle !;
but as they pursued the enemy one af.
ternoon through forest, in riding hard.
a Dough knocked off the wooden war
rior's head; yet still he galloped on
after flying foes, to the amazement and
terror of the enemy, who saw a hero
pursuing without head.
THE DRUNKARD's CONDENSATION
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cellaneous Sheets, presented by King
George Ill. 10 the British Museum.
The date is l646.)-A drunkard is the
annoyance of modesty the trouble OF
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