The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-10-24

Barney's popularity was not confined tc
ms fellow men, but extended to the fair
Ills bone and muscle were the admiration
OF all the country girls. Not that he was
an AdonIs; no, they adored the Hercules
blended with little Mercury and no small
portion of the Mars; three excellent ingre-
alents to please the eye of Venus.
Dorcas," said he, one day, to his favor
ne, as he entered squire Dodd's with a
rihe IN his hand and his two hounds Tally
and Snap, close at his heels, you see I've
Como to see you according to promise.
It's all over, and may be id if | ant
a member of the legislator, right out an
out; I'm elected in this ere quarter, aY,o,ar
mo9Sty Rip roam, gal, for the BRIDES
" anu II the 'rnnistratinn dnr'' 49,,
10 vince now thero's no enakes- I'll
$tc1nge the pate of John Quincy, It'll it
looks as frightful as quails on the porku-
pine, and III make him swear Georgians is
pluck to the spine. Give US a shake O.
sorts, ncrcas."
" reckon, Barney" said the timid Dor
cas-, that now bekase you're turned Leg
lslaterman, you'll leave off comm here,
and IN futur hitch your creter to the rack
afore Patty Potts door, she havin' larnt an
edliication at boardin' SCHOOL,
Now, Dorcas," answered the half of
tended lover, "you're going to come your
Old riggs on me. Pollytics has ELEVATED
me, and I'll stick by it. But, Continued
ne, Shaping his hands and looking marvel
lousy loving)- you, Dorcas, I'li do al
most nothing; but love pollytics.'
Ar'nt you ashamed, you unheedful man:
youn spoken 1t now right out to my very
face. l reckon on POlly Ticks as no better
than other folks, though you make so much
of her."
ICONS, Dorcas! you're moughtily out in
your reck'nin'. mean POItytics, sort o.
thing for what all men fights and talks in
these days you see. Georgia and gin'ral
government Is politics now-the last having
made confringements on the rights o. the
first. 'Spose now fellow should take
gourd OH on vine, and say Tx be swinged
if that amt a squash land then 'spose
another fellow should say, you lie lit is a
gourd-and then they fought about it
that's pretty much now what the people
call pollytics. Mayhap you don't read the
newspapers, Dorcas? Jack Spear says, III
his Spectator, that newspapers is the reni-
Gle OF public 'pinion, and the freedom ofthe
press should be held sacred and revileable.
But come Dorcas-noW that Pm member of
legislator, | 'spose you wont swagger long
about the bill which I'm going for to intro
duce. Pm not much Of a c1trric[e in love
matters; howsomdever, as Jack Spear
says, I've a little monument within ma
which whispers no 4h~e don't nab you,
this megeantly, | may whistle for you here
after. | couldn't do Justice to my innocu-
lation speech, if knowed the procession
OF you was iubus. I've drawed swinging
big plantation in the territory of the new
counties, and has gotten beside it track
OF land at home, which in disjunction with
a good efficiency of political ragacity,
and my rememjus powers of rOerity and
elllqulnce, reckon we mought paddle our
canoes together pretty snipshush like
They says that it takes a man of great
parts, or big strong limbs, to be in the
legislator about these times, for the nation
Is IN state of risto-craZy, and it wants
rale roarers to hold gin'ral government
in and keep him from flying the track
and Pllbe peppered like Christmas turkey
if ha'nt the very Teller to do it. I'm not
atfeared of their refernal duilling, as they
calls it, when two fellels shute their pistol
in the air, as though they was pracshising
on the wing no, I'm a rale true continent
taller, and the 'ole poSSy cOme-at-uS on 'em
! that backs ADMINISTRATION; and may, be -
Here Dorcas gently placed her hand
over his mouth, and babe him not to be so
unheedtul of her company, nor talk so
much outlandish gibberish, as she could
not understand it for the life of her. Bar
ney, as if under the influence of superior
being, instinctively let fall the hand and
foot he had raised to hurl the thunderbolt,
and the lion Welded with the mesknass of
lamb to the all powerful appeal of beauty
His country was again forgotten, and not a
word of politics was spoken until some
time after the squire had united the happy
couple in the holy bands of wedlock, which
happened the following week, much to the
modification of the discounted host of
! Dorcas's fair rivals.
THE WANDERER.