The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1825-12-17

alas fran circumstance over which had no
control, and for which, therefore, ought not IL
have been made amenabe; from a mere Whim
of nature-a freak of fate-I was doomed to
suffer those miseres and humations from nine
tsnths Of those whom chance threw in my waY
And, for what? was-Seven Feet High!
'fThe very head and front of my offending
Hath this eXtent-no more"
Would you credit it, Sir for this have been
followed like some strange animal unseen before
among men for this have borne anguish and
wounded pride, and undeserved disgrace; for
this have been gazed at as huge libel on the
human form: as a creature which had little in
common with the rest of mankind and foI
which mankind entertained to sympathies a,
an indelible blot the fair page of llie-a curse
personified-
"a tear on natures universal smile"
AT one time greasy tjacketed fellow, bearing
ladder and torch, asks me, as particular IA
YOUR, to save him the trouble of ascending the
former, by taking off the tops of his lamps, and
applying the lighted torch to the wicks adding,
whilst he screws his mouth up to an impudent
assumption of gravity, !" Your Honor won't have
TO stretch much-you needn't stand on tip-toe,
Sir No need of stills, your Worship" sc.
At another time, willing, whose eyes happen
to be some inches nearer his mother earth than
my own--a coxcomb, clad in white corded small
clothes, with drab CATERS, and piece of very
DOUBTFUL apparel on his back-a something,
which rs not long enough to constitute benja-
mln and too long for dress coat or spencer
stops me in Broadway. and with an affected
draWl and vacant stare, tells me, he should feel
particularly ohliged-materially honoured--eX-
tremey gratified, if | would let him know the
hour by St Pauls clock; as he is so far remov-
ed from it, that curse him, if he can distinguish
one hand from the other. One, with pretended
earnestness, accuses me of having stolen flower
pots from his garret-window. Another charges
me with the murder of his wife, who, he AYERS.
caught cold and died, in consequence of the
rain having penetrated through the roof Of his
house upon her bed; all of which he says. was
occasioned by my having taken away the tiles,
while little sneerng fellow, in suit of rusty
black wishes to be informed, whether it Is trlI..
that the atmosphere becomes colder in proper
ton as we ASCEND. But | am getting tired OF
recOuntng the multfarious insults have cXpc-
rienced the unmerted sufierings have unier
gone. Yet one thing [ must not omit-the Wo-
men. those seeming angels, from whom thought
we received the better portion Of our nature
to whom | conceived man to be indebted for
halt his divinity; the women--whose eyes are
suns-whose words are muscwhOse looks are
love--treated me as unceremoniouslv, and n
coldly and unteengly as those of my own SEX
was never phlegmatic enough to contemplate
beauty without feeling of acknowledgements oc-
casionaly, without love. | offered my hand at
various periods Of my life to at least dozen.---
/ Carissa excused herself by saying, tia, she
was very chilly during winter. and therefore
! particularly partial to a small and low room.
which would, if she married me, deprive her Of