The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-05-19

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exertIons to suppress it, But what good can
be effected without an effort Let the whole
race OF the sarcophagi, and host of butchers,
| growi and buster about this antique custom,
ssasH wv he sT brd9pscgs 81 Eagtsss
than they are at present"
! ANTI-SARcoPHAGUs.
| The FIDDLER AND THE WOLF. The
charms Of music have been acknowledged
by man and beast, from time immemorial.
The following additional tribute to the mai
! esty of its influence has not before, we think,
been made public. Some years since, land
for aught we know it is the same at presently
it was the practice of the hunters in the
State of Maine, to "dig deep pitt" and
cover the surface with brush, so that beasts
of the forests, in their midnight rambes,
might stand chance Of being taken in
Into one of these subterraneous caverns it
! happened to be the fortune of VOLTA
fierce and black-eyed animal-not as usual
to "put up" but to put down; and finding
himself in very comfortable apartment, the
| animal resolved to make virtue of neces-
sity, and remain contented. What was the
subject of his meditations, we have not been
able to learn but let his thoughts have
been what they may, they were soon inter-
rupted by the entrance of a companion
who made a descent without any more
knocking than such as he might have re-
ceived upon his own head and members
AS in duty bound, the eyes of the meditative
wolf flashed and rolled, and like the car
buncle mentioned by Shakespeare, the play
writer, emitted into the surrounding dark
ness, native and glowing light. The new
conner, fiddler, on his return from a quilt
ing, soon met the anxious gaze of his four
legged landlord, and being too weak, either
from the fall or from fright, to seize the
monster by the ears-aMribus teneo lupun--
kept walking slowly backwards, while the
glazing eyes followed slowly and closely
on. At this crisis, a projecting limb from
the top of the cavern happened to strike the
string of the violin: the effect was electrI-
eol-the eyes of the wolf lost their rage,
and assumed luminous mildness, and he
stopped short, and seemingly powerless.
The fiddler took advantage of the hint, and
drove his bow briskly till the ensuing dawn
brought the hunters to his release.
NOCTURNAL FIGHT WITH LION. A
number of lions are met with among the
hills of California, and they are said to be
very ferocious. A former commandment of
this province, in the year 1921, was travel
ling near the gulf of Molexe, the western
side of which passes the road from San
Diego, whence he had come; and finding
it impossible, from the lateness of the hour,
to reach Loreto before morning, he resolved
upon sleeping in one of the valleys near the
shore. His two sons, youths of sixteen and
eighteen years of age, accompanied him.
The father, being apprehensive of lions,
which he knew to be plentiful among the
mountains, slept with a son on either side
of him, charitably supposing, that if one of
these animals should approach the party
during the night, he would certainly attack
the person on the outside. About midnight
wandering lion found out the retreat of
the trio, and, without his approach being
perceived, he leaped upon the father, in
whose body he inserted his teeth and claws,
and with name and tail erect, proceeded
forthwith to devour him. The two boys,
moved by the cries and sufferings of their
father, grappled the lion manfully, who find
ing his prize contested, became furious:
the combat was most bloody. After being
dreadfully lacerated, the two brave youths
succeeded, with small knife, in killing
their ferocious enemy, but unhappily for
them, not soon enough to save their father !;
and the afflicted boys were left to lament
his death and their own severe wounds
They both, with difficulty survived; and
are, understand, still living in California,
although dreadful objects-the features of
one of them being nearly obliterated.
Hardy's Travels IN IMerico.
EPITAPH. The following eptaph was writ.
ten by Lord Byron, in the year 1907
Epitaph on John adams of South,oeU, a Carrier,
tohO died Of Drunkenness.
John Adams lies here of the parish of South
well,
A Carrier who carried his can to his mouth
we'll,
He carried SO much, and he carried so fast;
lie could carry no morc-so was carried at
last;
For the liquor he drank being too much for one,
He could not carry off,-so now he $ carbon.
MARCH OF INTELLECT. Upon house, occu-
pied by father and son, (the former blacksmith
and publican. the latter a barber,) near Bridge
toater, in SOmersetShire, is board, expressing
| as follows -" Barnes and Son blacksmith and
BARRIERS work done here, horseshoing and shay
ing, locks mended, and hare curling, bleeding,
| teeth-drawing aud all farriory work. All sorts
of spiratus lickers akording to the lato comical
trety. Take motifs my wife keeps skool IL lays
folks as you shall, teechos reeding and writing
and other langwothes, and has sist aunts if
required to teach horritory sowing the mathew
maticks, and all other fashionable diversions Z"
English Daper.