The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-09-18
THE NEXT LECIsLATURE.

There will be great deal of p-h-u-n, fun, at
the Capitol this fall. No doubt of it. The wings
will quarrel and the Lokies will laugh and grow
lat. They won't be in hurry to make fools ofthem-
selves again, as they did last fall They'll let the
majority ''tako the responsibility" we reckon,
while they clay back on the breeching'' and en-
JOY themselves, like fine fellows, as they are.
There will be good deal of rain and mud as
usual; great many fine Ladies with bcaux in the
gallery, and old men with corns in the lobby. Ten
TO one the beaux will get smashed, and the corns
trod on. A great many people will go up on to
the dome of the State House, and think how it
would hurt them to fall of, There will be all
sorts Of folks there. There will be parsons, dea-
cons, and black legs. There will be men with red
noses, and white noses, stubb noses and sharp no.
SEES, delicate little things, aud some that will sticl
out a feet" There will be all sorts of hats. The
bell-top and the peaked top the wide brim and
the narrow brim the low crown and the high
crown. Some will be turned up behind, some will
be turned up before, and some will not be turned
Some will be square toed, some round tocd, and
some peaked-tocd; but most of them will be five
oed, and all will be able to boast of having larger
soles than their wearers, There will probably be
a great variety of coats there. Tharo'II be the
coat with the standng-collar, and the coat with
rolling collar; the dress coat and the frock coat,
the coat with the long skirt, and the coat with the
short skirt; the long tailed coat, and the bobbed-
tailed coat; the coat with the narrow flap, and the
coat with the broad flap. Some people will wear
one kind, and some people will wear another
Some will think they wear the best fitted coat in
the capitol, and some won't think any such thing.
Nobody will want steel collars, because nobody will
be afraid of getting shot in the aeck, and yet
there II be large quantity who will. Therc'll
be great political discussions at the Democratic
Reading Room, and great political discussions at
the Tippocanoe Reading Room and they won't
any Of them amount TO much. 1herc'il be bets
on New York and bets ON Ohio; bets on Van Bu-
rem, and bets on Harrison; but the most sasacto-
ry bets Of al! the bets will be Bets on bcef-stcak
and coffee in the morning,
There will bea Fair sometime, which will be the
arest affair that the fair of the capitol ever got up
Every body will 90, of course, for nobody can keep
away from the fair. A good many things will be
sold, and good many things won't be sold,--
1hero'll be the pretlest girls in all the world to
SELL and the greatest fools in all the world 10 buy
Some will want what they don't bay, and some
will buy what they don't want. Some will buy
one thing, some will buy another, and some won't
buy anything, and the whole affair will end us all
such usually do, by leaving the girls in funds and
the boys in a fog.
Take it all in all, the session of the Legislature
of Vermont for 1910 will be one of the most re-
narkuble sessions IN the whole world, and one 20
which our ancestor, in future generations will look
back for various quantity of various reasons-
Amen.