Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-11-05

FOR Instance, here is a road, the further ell,
OF which Is lost in that white blank which
may or ma snot stand for the ATMOSPHERE
And YET said my father, that little mar
IN petticoats is walking up it. as if he had an
GRAND at the other end.'
'for aught we know said my uncle, 81,
may be an allegory and have often fancied
that the paintings on their vessels were scenes
from their tales or poems. In the mean time
we may gather some hints of the character OF
the people IN the porcelain-tbat they are
literary and musical, and, from the FREQUENT
occurrence OF figures Of children, that they are
OF affeciionate nd domestic habits. Aud, a.
/ Dove all. that they are eminently unwarike,
and Inclined to peaceful and pastoral pursuits.
do not recollect ever seeing an armed figure,
weapons, or any allusion to war and its at
tributes, in any of their enamels'
80 much the worse for them,' said my
father, 'for they are threatened with some
thing more than tempest in teapot. 1t
Will be like the china vessel in the old fable
coming IN contact with the brazen one
There VIII be fine smash, brother, of your
favorite ware y
"A smash! where = lnquiredm my aunt, who
had Just entered the room, and impertectly
overheard the last sentence. what are YOU
talking of!'
'oi bull in china shop said my father,
with hard wink at my uncle.
Yes, that's a dreadful smash, sure e.
nough,' said my aunt. 'There was Mrs Star
Key who keeps the great Statfordshire ware
house at Smithfield Bars, she had an overdriv-
en- beast run into her shop only last week.
AT first, she says, he was quiet enough, for
besides racing up and down st. John street
he had been bullock-hunted all over Islington
and Hoxton fields, and that had taken the
wlldness out of him. So at first he only |
stood staring at the jugs and mugs and things, |
as If admiring the patterns
And pray inquired my uncle, where was |
Mrs. Starkey in the mean time 2
why, the shopman, you see, had crept UNI
der the counter for safety, and Mrs. Starkey |!
was in the back parlor and saw every thing
by peepIng through crack Of the green cur
tain over the glass door. So the mad bull |
stood staring at the crockery quiet enough, ,
when unuckily with switch of his tail he
brought down on his back a whole row of
pipkns that hung over his head. | suppose
he remembered being pelted about the streets,
tor the clatter OF the earthenware about his
ears seemed to put him up again, for he gave
a stamp and below that made the whole
shop shake again, and down ratified a great
Jug on his hind quarter. Well, round turns
the bull, quite savage, with another loud bel
who did that = when what should he see by
bad luck blu, a china figure of Mandarin, as
big as our Tom there, a grinning and nod
ding at him with his head
Commissioner Linz said my father with a
significant nod to my uncle.
Mrs. Starkey thinks continued my aunt,
that the mad bull took the china figure for
human creature, and particularly as it's mo-
tons made it look 80 life-like: however, the
more the bull stamped and beloved, the more
the Mandarin grnned and nodded his head,
till at long and at last, the bull got SO aggra-
waited, that, sticking his tail upright, Mrs.
Starkey says, as stiff as the kitchen poker, he
made but one rush at the china Mandarin, and
smashed him into shivers.'
sand there you have the whole history
said my father with another nod to my uncle,
'of War with China. '-Ne,c Monthly Nag
aSine for October.