Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-05-23

as soon as he gets upon the wing, and futters
TREMENDOUSLY down to the earth, as if over
come with ecstacy at his own music. Some
times he is in pursuit of his paramour; al
ways in full song, as if he would win her by
his melody and always with the same APP
pearance of intoxication and delight.
Of all the birds of Dur groves and mead
ows, the Boblink was the envy of my boy
hood. He crossed my path in the sweetest
season in the year, when all nature called
to the fields, and the rural feeling throbbed
in every bosom; but when /, luckless ur-
chin was doomed to De mewed up, during
the live-long day, in that purgatory of boy
hood, q school-room. 1t seemed as if the lit.
tie varlet Knocked at me, as he flew by in full
song, and sought to taunt me with his happier
lot. Oh, how envied him! No lessons no
tasks, no hateful school nothing but holiday,
frolic, green fields, and fine weather. Had
I been then more versed in poetry, I might
have addressed him in the words of Logan
to the cuckoo:
Sweet bird thy bower is ever green,
Thy sky is ever clear; ..
Thou hast no sorrow in thy note,
No winter in thy year.
Oh! could fly, I'd fly with thee;
We'd make, on joyful wing,
Our annual visit round the globe,
Companions OF the spring
Farther observation and experience have
given me different idea of this little feath-
cred voluptuary, which will venture to inn
part, for the benefit of my school-boy read
ers, who may regard him with the same un-
qualified envy and admiration which once
INDUCED. have shown him only as saw
him at first, in what may call the poetical
part of his career, when he in manner de-
voted himself to elegant pursuits and enjoy
ments, and was bird of music, and song,
and taste, and sensibilty, and refinement
| While this lasted, he was sacred from inju-
ry the very school-boy would not fling a
stone at him, and the nerest rustic would
pause to listen to his strain. But mark the
difference. As the year advances, as the clo-
ver-blossoms disappear, and the spring fades
into summer, his notes cease to vibrate on the
ear. He gradually gives up his elegant
tastes and habits, dofs his poetical and pro-
| fessional suit of black, assumes russell or
rather dusty garb, and enters into the gross
enjoyments Of common vulgar birds. He
becomes a bon vivant, mere gourmand !;
thinking of nothing but good cheer, and gor-
mandizing on the seeds of the long grasses
on which he lately swung. and chaunted so
unsteady. He begins to think there is moth
ing like 'the Joys of the table, if may be
allowed to apply that convivial phrase to his
indulgences. He now grows disseminated
with plain, every day fare, and sets out on a
astronomical tour, in search of foreign lux
uries. He is to be found in myriads among
the reeds of the Delaware, ban1ueting on
their seeds; grows corpulent with good feed
ing, and soon acquires the unlucky renown
of the ortolan. Wherever he goes, pop {!
pop pop the rusty fire-locks of the coun-
try are cracking on every side; he sees his
companions falling by thousands around
him he is the rsed-6ird, the much-sought- for
tit-bit of the Pennsylvania epicure.
Does he take warning and reform? Not
he! He wings his flight still farther South,
in search of other luxuries. We hear of hin
gorging himself in the rice swamps; filing
himself with rice almost to bursting he can
hardly fly for corpulency. Last stage Of his
career, we hear of him spitted by dozens, and
served up on the table Of the gourmand, the
most Wanted Of Southern dainties, the rice
bird of the Carolinas.
| Such is the story of the once musical and
admired, but finally sensual and prosecuted,
Boblink. 1t contains a moral worthy the at
tention Of all little girls and little boys;
warning them to keep to those refined and in
tellectual pursuits, which raised him to so
high pitch of popularity, during the early
part of his career but to eSchew all tenden-
cy to that gross and dissipated indulgence,
which brought this mistaken little bird to an
untimely end.
Happy Effect of Perseuerance.-A boat, with six
men, was upset by steamer off Guerbaville. One Of
the men swan ashore, and two others were saved by
means ofropes; but when the first Of these three had
somewhat recovered his recollection he found that
his brother was still under water and returned to the
spot determined to save him. Diving to the bottom,
he seized and brought up man, but it was not his
brother he plunged a second time, and recovered
another of his companions but still not the object Of
his anxiety; with undiminished resolution. he went
down third time and was rewarded by bringing up
him whom he sought BY the application of proper
means the whole Of the three were restored to ANNA
tion.-French Paper
Matters Ed;iorial-One thousand persons were
gathered on he Mississippi Shore opposite Vicksburg
to witness the exchange of shots TO come off between
Major McArdle, the editor of the Wing, and Dr.. Ha-
gan, editor of the Sentinel Of the same place. Two
shots were fired at 10 PAGES without effect. In the az
ternoon another meeting took place, and Major Nc
Ardle was wounded in the thigh.
Gen. Duncan Macarthur died at ChiIicothe on the
18th ult in the 6Sth year Of his age He was Of
the earliest settlers and most distinguished citizens Of
Ohio.
REmARKAB1E OFf1c1AL Recommendations
Swan, who died at Woodstock, VT, the lIth ult.
aged 76 was appointed town clerk in 1876, and has
held the Office through the following 43 years without
intermssion. In the year 1900 he was appointed by
the legislature, treasurer Of the state, and henceor
ward for rty-tDo successive gears, was elected to
that Office by the eemen in the state, and generally
without opposition.
Fatal ACCIDENT. wall Of building IN Straw
berry street fell this morning. and buried in the ruins
five persons, men who were employed in underpn-
ming, &c. Two OF the persons we regret to learn