The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-05-20

tlle cllurch were necessarily lett open du-
ring the service. Now, whether it was
that he only meditated a retreat from the
feryour Of the noon-day sun, or that he was
compelled to seek the shelter of the sacred
edllice from the wanton annoyanccs of GER
tain prolane loiterers in the church yard. |
know not; but certain it is that my bearded
enemy of the previous evening, the he goat
before noticed, made his appearance in the
porch, Immediately within my ken; and
alter executing predatory pas 8eul, not
strictly of the Tagliani school, he gradually
insslnuated himself through the aisle, until
he came directly opposite to the open pew
occupied by the unconscious contemner of
the next. Here he planted himself, and
deliberately surveyed our sleeping hero with
a curious attention. Naturalists, learned in
the domestic economy of these animals.
assert that they are, for the most part. of a
headIong disposition, and much given to
warfare among themselves; and, moreover.
that their signal for battle is invariably con-
veyed by three mods of the head. How far
this is worthy Of credit am unable TO ver-
lly beyond the instance now narratinc
dowbeit, the immediate object of the goats
contemplation had by this time taken far
Journey into 'the Land of Nod and soon
acknowledged the attention of the animpl
by bow of a lolloping profunditv. Billv.
as if perceiving some indefinite symptoms
OF capricornity about him, answered if with
short nod of defiance; second declensiop
of the head met with similar response.
and the third dip had scarcely reached zero
ere the challenge was accepted by the goat.
who, lowering his horns, rushed full butt
through the doorway, and pitched into his
supposed antagonist in style which would
not have disgraced the palmiest davs of
Crib or Game Chicken. In a few moments
after 'the collision the church was an mi
yersal uproar. The seat-door was closed
on the combatants; and our hero, thus un-
tremendously recalled to his senses, and a
half consciousness Of the scene of his de-
llnquency, verify believed himself delivered
over as prey to the arch-fend in person.
In the extremity of his fear he seized one
OF the pillows, which he brandished as a
shield, and which at the next onset became
fixed on the horns of the enemy. In this
state' an energetic kick deposited the latter
IN the opposite corner of the pew, where
our little man pelted him with prayer books,
bibles, pillows, hymn books, hassocks,
and every other extempore piece of ammu-
milton within hisreach. After which in =
paroXysm of bewilderment, he scrambled
INTO and over some half score of seats and
PeWs with the agility Of chimpanzee, bolt
cd like blazing meteor through the near
est doorway, and finally effected lodo-
ment in his bedroom at the Pig and Blum
derbuss, in state little short of insanity.
On my return to the inn some two hours
41 N-N'e'iNiiidiy cAulDluOQ, / de- !
Of the waiter what had become of
the gentleman who had played so conspic-
lous a part in it, and learned that he had
not yet left his apartment. Considering
.he state of excitement in which he must
have entered it, this seemed to me some
what odd; and ! could not help entertaining
'ague conjectures that a sense of shame.
onhis recent eapose, had driven
nm to commit some act of desperation on
MS own person. However as had no
light to NEEDLE with the affairs of a perfect
tranger, | suppressed my suspicions, and
'ald my respects to rump-steak and pag-
um OF port, with the orthodox zeal of
rue Blue Friar. At length, as the evening
losed in, and | sat Illuminating on the past ,
occurrence of the day, my former anxieties q
etuned; and learning from the waiter that /
he gentleman was still in his bedroom, +
nd had not yet ordered dinner, ventured b
suggest to that functionary the propriety
ascertaining the real state of the case bv r
personal application at the door of the said a