The Arkansas advocate., 1836-05-20

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 Species, .4nser. The family of papda., %a' met with considerable diminut;on oe: A's tance since the days of the Romans .p0', them they were greatly esteemed fa, l.. s4B saved the Capitol by their cacklns :. were kept in the temple of Juno. and " lie officer provided food for them. ..s~ 1' number of ganders are provided far s ?. ',. public expense, now-a-days. Therc 90 an annual feast at Rome, at which ..a. yer gander was carried in processioa ,s man will consider minutely the disnos;.: and character of this much abused e,.., '@ cannot but confess that these honors ,.- well deserved. True, they have m. |, known, of late years, to do any sion., s.. vice to the State-but race of creat...
 the same genus, except that they we., = feathers, may be heard for five Of six mo..s in each year, cackling in our Capitol ,ho.. erpungtng, and other words which rzoaa.,. ism has introduced, of like barbsro,s ..l ganderlike eignifcation. Your eandef;. consummate philosopher. Most iuxurio,..,a lazy is he, and a perfect yagabond. You ,,,,.,, see him at any hour of the day, padal;r. about with pompous importaiice. feea;n. upon whatever chance offers him. with most praiseworthy reliance upon provdeooo, He is regular toater--li ing from hand ,o mouth, and letting the morrow take care os itself. Like Tory editor, he fancjes tb,, he does great good to the world by gabbliup and therefore he lifts up his voice at most unreasonable times, and in a most extrava. gant manner. Like him, too, if ever trans. ferred to a new farm-yard, his rhetorical fac. ulties become greatly developed, and his gab. bling more vociterous and emphatieal totbo great confusion and astonishment of the for. mer residents, and to the utter anribiIatos of the venerable old gander whose place ba has perhaps usurped. Your gander is a com. panionable and social animal. He does not like that flop, the turkey, strut about, solita. rg and alone, with an inward self-gratula. ton, and a great outward show of vanity permitting no one to infringe on his territor al rights. Not he. His habits are gregar. ous--wherein he resembles the offiee-hoder. You shall mark him in his wild state--whers you may sec him, with hundred of his el. lows, journeying through the air, in as regu lar order as drilled corps of mereenaries, making their approaches in political, con. test. No breaking from the ranks-noia fly. ing to the right or left-no desertions-@heF ever the leader turns, they follow--thoughi 1t
 is doubtful whether even flock of sane gan. ders would long follow leader who should fly in course as crooked as the present lead. CT of the Great Democratic party. It s true, however, that your tame, collar gander has one fault, particularly when he has con stituted himself guardian of the corn crib- He will hiss Tt every one, beside himself
 who takes an ear of corn from that deposiD. ry. So 1t is with mankind. Let the great Globe lift up it's discordant voice against the purest man in the nation, and all the little inferior gabblers poke out their bills and hiss after him in concert, and think themselves valiant, because they escape unharmed. t Is trick of which no decent gander wout be guilty.