The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-07-26

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: swine. "Their tameness was shockine
10 me-" But it shorty ceased TO be so :
!or alter this, they followed me with ca.
nine regularity, and without any inclina-
uon TO be witty, regarded them merely
as inlolerable bores. A week had now
; elapsed, and not only found me in exist
ence' but also brought along with it a
pleasure had long been stranger TO-
mat was the benefits of eating. My pop
uiarlty was unparalleled and built upon
foundation TOO solid for premature de-
cay. Wen has a modern writer cons
tended that the stomach is the seat ofthe
| soul. 1t IS an ingenious and plausible
doctrine, and not without its advocates
;9aee :..eIEFctua,s BY the capsciiy Of bis
bread basket. The whole district rano.
WIN my praises. The Messer,r said
'hey. rs fine, accommodating man
ne ISN'T mile parlickIer about his Wit
'ies.' so much accomplished in a single
week would have pulled up any body,
and meekuess herself might have par.
doned the innocent strut that conveyed
me TO the neighboring village of B..
on Saturday afternoon. An acquaintance
met me 10 the siteet-was struck with
my altered appearance, and expressed
much sarcastic regret 10 find that had
iallen into cousump,iye habits. Taunts
and jeers, however, affected me not. An.
honest pride supported me. But pride
must have a fall, and the fall of mine
was heavy one. During that memo
rable Saturday night, fancy. in the shape.
OF the incubus, caused me to execute
somerset, the like Of which was never
performed but ONCE, and then If was done
by Lucifer. The tumble, however, be-
ing only part of my involuntary freaks
and sufferings on the night aforesaid, /
shall take the liberty TO narrate them in
order aud at large. As for the reader,
be he never so sleepy, the nightmare
shall keep him awake while we are in
compary-but if he has not me patience
TO read description of it, heartily wish
him the reality, and leave him 10 his
slumbers. Al nine O'Clock found myself
10 bed, and few minutes after, in the
desert Of Zaharra--for the nightmare is
an excellent traveller. Notwithstanding
the short period of Tune occupied in
passing the Atlantic, my sides ached
horribly. was no less jaded than if
the journey had been performed on
trip. hammer. strained my eyes in
vain to find a place of shelter. There
was nothing to be seen but a circular
plain of reddish sand, bounded by The
horizon. Suddenly The heavens as
suyn OIL :, ornDoatuo,,s oe1oct. Ri b.:l
ed this symptom of rain wafer with ex-
tacy, for hitherto burning sun had COM
sumed The outward man, and b:fniBg
thirst the inward. o! hop longed for
one of those we'll saturated clouds. that
seemed TO withhold their moisture on
purpose 10 tantalize me. Ia ten minutes
| could have made dry spooge of the
whole atmosphere. My contemplation
of the skies was all at once interrupted
by the most frightful grunts, proceeding
from myrtads of swine who encompassed
me round about in conceniric circles, and
CRASHED their tusks in vengeance. They
we're apparently broiied by the sun, and
destitute Of bristIes. The latter of these
misfortunes they suffered in common with
myself, for terror had made me shed all
my hair. Yes-I was attacked, literally,
BY legion of live pork. The horrid
circle contracted rapidly around me.
Flight, in any sense of the word, was i'm
possible. In this agonizing moment. the
clouds opened and discharged a tremen-
dous shower of dough-nuts. Henceforth
let no melanchclic victim of ennui, COM
plain Of feeling blue, till he has felt the
"pelling of the piliiess Storm Eue 81
nut seemed to strike ike the Dali OF
! Umo=IJ1unueI. reduced 10 paste In
twinkling. In short time the clouds
began 10 slacken fire, when venturedto
raise my head, which had been pummel-
led into the sand, and take peep at the
horizon. But, o horror of horrors, The
icircle Of hogs remained unbroken. They
had stopped but a momentto riot on the
mama which had fallen TO iuvigorate
them, and 10 seal my fate. | watched
them awhile, without the power of mo-
: Ition. They soon prepared for another
onset, and was quietly, resigning myself
! to destiny, when my natural gravitalins
: powers were suddenly suspended. Fol
: me, this world had lost its attraction.
1 fell into the air, rent asunder the dense
), canopy of dough-nuts, tumbled head ovei
!. heels through space, and landed Nat up
n on nv back on the broad side ofSaturn';
. belt. The planet, which, 10 my mex
g pressible dismay, now found to be al
/ immense batter-pudding, Of thousands .
2 miles 10 diameter, was joslied out OF IL
! enthusiastically rolled oversny carcase
IS and left ii, slap-jack. The crash awoS
: me. | was lying on my back, with Il
. n;llow on nv face After looking { ~