Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-02-19

stroyed ~ single hour, or even nj
butte Guard, then, with peculiar Vi
glance, this forming, fixing season of
your existence.
Ho1es's Lectures TO Young Men.
If there be any thing in which per
vefsencss is humorously provoking, il
Is IN the stubborn Observation-Disclosures
Of a thorough paced pig. He that
drive pig Ought to be biest with even
more patience than Job, for surely
none other could drive one to marke,
Imagine yourself at cross road, with a
Whip in one hand, aud pig at the
extreme end OF large rope, for he
will have the whole length of his ieiher
you direct the head OF your charge by
the tail due norlh, he looks TO wa, d the
road as II conscious that il led to ,ha,
'undstlnguisha BILE boarne from " hence
no traveller relurns,' he can not O
blge you, so turns round and makes
with ali his legs for The soutk Il nel
Their Of these ways are agreeable, he
has no OBJ ction to turning eniirei,
rouhd and retracing his step, back to
the 'ty OF his nativity; and If you can
not decide on this proposition imme
dIateiy, he is polite enough TO persist
in waiting your leisure, aud sticks TO
his point as immoveable as a fusted
W aihelcock; at last he years roand
and round like the boxing hand of
co pass 10 all points, but keeps to
none, neither making way forward
s-deward or backward Xour pa
tience now negins TO fail, and you ap
ply the whip ~ the most p rsuasivc
manuel possible; ne squeaks very pear
tentty and uttars his shrlll llments I'LL
al the passengers stop their ears with
their fingers, and housekeepers shut
down their windows He seems 10
regret his incspacky toplease you. let
him lurn which ever way he viii; bul
rriaxes nothing of his perverseness
You hen t~ ISL his thin and useless tail
sonnd your thumb. ill you have screw.
ed it as light as il were in toarDquei,
and endeavor 10 urge him forward by
that last recourse of de iedled pig drl
vers. His counter tenor squeak is on
y the more piercing and pathetic; hul
he is as undoubtedly decided as evet
TO the tenor Of his way. And now,
stunned by his shrieks, you loose his
tail, and pal resolutely at the string
which keeps him prisoner at the leg
He ~as that moment advancing almost
twice his own length on The road we
wished him to lake, but that pull is con
styued direct command to sta I'd still.
and once more he into is as fixed as
monumental marble" You ply the
whip till his sides look like tally of
the umher of iashes he has received;
hut he seems to think whipping anun
merited compliment. You pull The
leg, twist the tail, and Cog ,he flank
for half an houy longer; he squeaks %
and down the whole compass of the
chromatick scale, I'LL every note is ron
through, and your head feels as il sharp
swords were thrasting through both
ears Meanwhile The black guard
boys swarm round you like bees at
gathering one volunteers stick with a
nail in Il, a second stone, third pesh.
es his cap in the pace of your charge:
and the rest raise the exciting halloO,
Or keep lhe rearing laugh. These in.
suits POI your pig 90 his me,ile, and he
either bolts in belw cen their legs pro
mlscuously, apd tumbles them down
one after another, or else selecting
some newly preached urchin in par
Iicular, he filings The bread and butter
over bis back into the muu
The bysiandeFs laugh louder than ev
er-selZing the porky peIplexity by
The hind legs. you fluug him over youi
shoulder, and sweat all the way to
he market town, while your 'eudeI
barge Is making the streets vocal BY
'ne long continued Shrek
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