Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-01-23
MISC ELL A u ECU IS.
From the n. I. Transcrii

From the N. Y. Transcript.
ECCENTRICITiE.S Or a MAD MAN.
Mr.. n lawyer in Vermont, do
ing good business, at once became in
SINE, and took il into his head 10 abandon
the practice Of law, ard engage in basket
making. lie was nj first, very awkward
hand al this new employ ment out, BY dint
II perseverance, he soon became very skill
ful, and could weave q basket a. well as
lie had formerly woven an argument at
tho bar. He followed this business about
six months, when, taking a new ro,ion
into his head, he abandoned it for that Of
chair bottomiBg.
The material usel in this occupation
was bark, which he stripped from the trees
in easly summer, when il pecis most easily
iIsy,rg come home, one day, covered from
head 70 foot with mud. he was aed where
he he'd l,ecn, thai -. had rot SO tho. oughly
t,ecsnbcd. lie answered.. th.t he had
been in neIghboring swamp after elm
ha.l., sf which he exhibited strip about
40 feet long.
"De you remark ,his9'' said he triumph
antly.
eyes; out how does that account for
your being 50 mnddy9 It isn't usual to
find mud on the top Ct tree"
"NO; but you may, sometimes, find il
- the bottom though. I'll tell you how
found it. lieut. tire bark near the root Of
the tree, and then stripped it upwards, ex-
pecting it would come to an end ;I.d
break OF. and run itself out after while
Blu: u hung on like a suit in chanccry-
and s.rips, and stript, until it run up forty
feet a. broad and s'rcng as ever. Thnas
&c r',yself, there's no use in pursuing
the ibe = ny farther, and 50 Ill enter a
a0JG ~; But not to loc-c the ben
eft Of -~r1. | bad donc-iha: VS. the
Po;st 10 b. ftar;dsti. l wished AT least to
save costs--bu., pshaw! forgotten not
q lawyer now. Well, - | was saying,
looked at the suffice, to see how | could
secure the bark. 1t was too stro e for me
to break oil. AT any rate, though, l, there's
more than one way Ia skin cat, as a
butcher would say. III eanro- break off
this bark. can climb up by. No sooner
sard then done. seized told oi The strip.
and pla ing my feet gli,st the trunk o.
the tree. Ian up hand over hand. By this
method Off ing. ya! All perceive nv
back mnst htva b4ep downward. and Nor
N u hosizonta. po,.tion-mv feet 5..nu,
nraced apai 81 the tree, AM my bead s,1,,-
dino from ~ ~ "a angle cs nearly n;ne;v
degrees. uas.ag arrived II the prep,
he'gh'. WIS then in luatdary. how To
get my knife out of my rocket, and h w to |
get II open when II was oi.. II let 90
With cn@ land. waa ieaf.iul the Other
sa1.. ..ot hold INC. However, s,ys !. lis
neck Or nothing. III ,y the ezs .,nt
II any rate--so = ippcd powerful, itn
my 'ett hand, .h,ie took out my knife i
with my right. aid opening i. with ny
.ee'a, whlppe.. L tie bark as clean as the 4
law would foc~ -. entail.
sul,f'
""hy you come flat upon Your b-ck, of
cnsrse.n
"k'ght, gentlemen Of the jury--a very
correct verde, ind 3D. Icame down fl, !;
IN the mut. Never was client laid fiat
'es o.. ais back than land never was one
- coaple'c'. beGaubed with filth and
MUG. bi. .t.aaks 70 the yieldin, nature
1'e SOL! saved my mes, and onI.
wrought away the mischief on my COAL,
: gained my cause, toC-w.Iicl is more
'Dan can say of all my underiakinss.'' i
To company laughed heartily at the !,
'x-Iaw1er's accoun, Of bis exploit-w
Inc Iss,er, hanging his coat up in the sun,
a,d, that the mud, like tbs old wnman's
'reass, would rub of when i. was dry.
ia r>,hs1A
~ occupation OF CHAR bottoming, when:
nddenly becoming sane again he resumed
~ Practice q the law, and has. ever s
NHn-e. preferred iayin: his opponents on ,
heir backs. in legal way, to beiss laid 7
y his own in 81 l,idic. aas ,nsnaer as tha, I
'bove relate. /,
J.. - fsons Ner Years Prcs.m-Wef
- from the Lexington latei. !
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