Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-12-28

| - h"iy desperation, sick Oi
the world and its vanitles, she had withdraw
from the circle of her relatives and friends
ana united herself with the society of Sba.
kefs. he remainder of the mournful his.
tory is told in the affecting language of the
writer of H. W. to whom your readors
are indebted for these few, but I trust not
undressing "reminiscences. w.
fLAYlNG TRICK UPON AN OLD PLAY
ER.-.4 true story.--While detained some
day or two in the pleasant town of Mont
gomery, last summer, waiting for stage,
we heard the following anecdote told of an
old actor there, which is worth relating.
Mr.. u, the actor in question, has for
some twenty years been continually before
the public as delineator of the faults and
fobles, the virtues and the vices of other
Peop'e. Age creeping upon him, like hun
dreds of others he began to wax sick of the
smell OF the foot lights and the tinse finery
about hlm--he had seen enough of the
worlc--the unreal had lost its charms, and
the only real comfort he could see through
the vista OF the future was isyhaving little
patch ofground upon which he could draw
Tor suihcency of poultry and potatoes,
turnlPs and beans, for subsistence.
Ills plan was carried into Immediate exc
cutlon. A little "place" was purchased,
potatoes was planted, the earth was turned
up to make room for turnips, and although
MIR. Z. was not perfectly at home in his
new character, still every thing went on
marvelously well. lie purchased some half
dozen liens, and in order to increase his
store Snt thppN nj ,Hnrly
Slick says for an additional stock. He had
asuiliciency of eggs for all his flock except
one---to procure these was his next care.
Meeting with neighbor one day, wag
OF fellow up to all kinds of tricks, he ac-
costed him with "Mr. T. have you any
hens eggs to spare? All my hens are set
ting except one, and Pm out of eggs. Can
you do any thing fer me1'
"Certainiy," said the wag, who at once
bethought him of capital trick TO play off
upon his Ignorant and unsuspectng friend.
81 can help you out, Mr. c. and will do it
with pleasure. You have no guinea fowls
eggs, have your
No, mine are all the common chick
ems"
Well, you must have a brood of them
to certainty. I'll send you dozen or fif-
teen immediately"
Thank you, much obliged to you, and
I'll return the compliment" said MIR. c.
The eggs were procured by T., but be-
fore sending them to his friend the actor,
he boiled them some halfhour over the hot
test kind of "a fire.--The next day Mr.. C's.
old hen was comfortably installed upon a
nest of hard boiled, Guinea hens eggs.
| Time flew along in due season brood af-
ter brood of common, barn-yard chick
ems were uslered into existence, and went
peeping and chirping about the yard of Mr..
G. All were now Matched except the Gum
ea-fowls eggs, and the old hen to whom
they were entrusted stuck to her task with
a zeal and patience truly commendable and
worthy ola better cause. In this wav
month passed without any signs of an addi-
ton to Mr.. C's. stock of poultry, and he be-
gan to grow impatient.
MeetihgT. he enquired how long does il
take those eggs of yours to hatch?'
g Oh, some time You be patient"
"Well, am patient, but then 1t takes
them so long"
Another week passed, and still no chick
ens.-Again meeting T.. the actor, r,swith a
rueful countenance, asked him off he
thought the eggs would reall hatch"
I" AS matter of course" said the wag.
I" But how long does it generally take
them," enquiled the actor
"Sometlmes longer, sometimes shorter"
retorted II. who could hardly keep his
countenance all the while. "You give the
old hen fair chance and she III bring every
thing out straight"
Ten days more elapsed and no more signs
of young Guinea fowls than ever. I he old
hen had stuck to her post until she had be-
come so poor and light that the specific gra-
vty would hardly keep her down, while the
patience The poor actor was entirely eX-
hausled. Curiosity at length led him to
break one of the eggs. He saw, in mo-
ment, the cause of their not Matching, but
did not suspect the agency his neighhor
had in the flair. Meeting the actor short
ly after Mr.. II. opened conversation
with
"WeT, has that old her hatched the
eggs yetF
"Hatched hill! No. She's cooked EN-
though! You never saw harder done boil
ed eggs since yon was born. Hatched! in
deed! I'm much obliged to you for the eggs
but don't think these common hens able to
do any thing with such outlandish eggs in
the way of Matching them out"
Thus ends our story of Mr.. G. and his
operations in the poultry line. five have
hatched readable story we have made out
better than he did in hdtchng Guinea
fowls.--M o. Picayune.
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The Rev. John N. Maffit is preaching at
Nashville, Tenn. His very particular
friend and quondam associate in the minis
try, Mr.. Parsons, is playing at the same
place! So it goes.
The dry an witty editor of the N. Y. Ga
zette in all soberness and solcmnity says,