The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-03-04
For the Hawkeye and Patriot.

Mr. Editor--Having decently inferred the
,GINERAL, was in hopes that he would sleep
ouiet now life's fitful dream is DER" but he
+ ont upon me again in the last number of
the Gazette, with all the hideous demeanor
and ghastly speech of Banquo's Ghost, q think
he must have brought his etymology from the
neither world, it smells so strong of sulphur
Don't, street. gineral, don't grin on me so
hercely, like rat through bag Of okum.
lam Boz, .ehy friend; remember, the wounds
Of a friend are but the tokens OF sincerity
You should look at the intention and not the
act. If immortalized thee in three weeks,
how long would it take, oh gincral, to i'm.
mortalize nothing Remember that the poor
circumscribed efforts of mortality do not ex.
tend to your infinite sphere. 1t requires all
the ingenuity of my imagination, and my
most strenuous efforts to reconcile my feelings,
awed BY your terrific presence, evincing all
the anger and luminosity of stump tailed
bull nifty time"--I pray thee begone! 'Wei
set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee
there's no laboring in the winter. All that
follow their noses are led by their eyes, but
blind men; and there's not u nose among
twenty, but can smell him that's sinking"
Gineyal, YOU are offensive-you are OF the
earth, earthly. There is tariff on the house
maid, or she has come short of her ordinary
vigilance else she would have had thee as
trde couple of chips in place Of the Gazette:
Avaunt the Gazette yawns to receive you.
Ensliroud yourself in its senseless folds, ut
emblem of u fools cap sheet, as free of thought
originality, wit, or circumstance, as when 1t
left the hands of the manufacturer. A blank
emblem OF nothing.
The gineral makes fcint to dispose Of me,
and then "slopes" and Ikea whipped rooster
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in another part of the Gazette, like Jack
Horner in corner, cries what brave man
am ~ Good gIncral, there is something in
rour head beside 8 Varmint You are not
quite so big fool as | took you for, besides
there is worse looking men, if their ears are
not as large.
now beg leave OF the readers of the Hawk
Eye to saw '.farewell' to the subject in ques
ton; for their patience and unremitting atten
ton, they will accept my thanks; ii they should
ever hear from me again trust it will be in
relation to something OF more Importance
Before parting, however, Iwould mention tina
| have in my possession broken Ms. entitled
the life and adventures of one Morgan, an OK
traordinary individual that hourished in the
18th century; the compiler pledged himscl
not to "eXtenuate nor set down aught in NAL
ice." The work is accompanied with copiou:
notes of ''hai, breadth scopes" and journey:
yast. 1t is rather Quixotic, yet less Valiant
It assi,nilates to Gil Bias, but his amourS were
less fortunate. 1t resembles CULVER in som.
respects, but is widely different in the sequel
as the gineral neUer encounters less man thai
himself. II approNimatcs more to ION Thumb
or Little Pickle, than any work now extant
To those who have desire for the curious,
would recommend a disinterested perusal.--
Facts are often STRANGER than fiction.
BOZ.