The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1841-10-16

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to state Of quiet. But unfortunately ont
day, getting in motion on the up anC
down process in a new building, where
neither ceiling nor roof was in the way tc
impede his progress upward, 1e got be-
You'd the affinity OF attraction 10 the earth
and the laws Of cohesion and gravitatiol
being suddenly merged in those of ex.
panslon and repulsion, he shot upward
until being entirely out Of sight, he hearl
in that direction a smart report like the
bursting OF small bomb, and he nas nev.
er seen his dog since. Th:3he observed
was curious case in naturei history, tina
he felt bound to submi for so'Iiion, to tho
"Phllodogmatic Benevolent society. Now
how 'ir. Smith would calculate ON getting
a hearing before SO grave and august q
body, | leave entirely to his usual adroit,
ness in times OF need.
Without pretending to vouch for Mr.. S
and i'll iurtheI illustration of a certain lea
lure of his, perhaps may be allowed
without offending the dellcacy of his feel
ings, to relate another matter "as twas told
TO me-" viz
That his father having highly improv-
ed ten acre field, planted the whole of il
in carrots and parsnlps. For a while there
was great show Of tops, and the old
gentleman thought he was going in for a
up-top crop: but after some weeks when
the plants appeared TO be taking deep root
downward, UPS and tops all seemed to be
gradually re.rlng into the earth, as if b.,
magic, when one night ey vanished en-
urely,
leaving not wreck behind"
Well, OF course the old man was in
consolidate at his loss, and peri ctly mys-
llfed as to the cause of it. Smith pro-
ceeds to say, that Yankee captain, on a
trading voyage to the north pole, got
sucked into Symmes' hole, and passing
on South through the earth homeward,
said he saw The nationesL queer sight
there he doc think that ever was heard
tell on. What think 'twas2 Why hull
passed. Of people pullin Of roots, such as
Carrots and parsuips, Cat least ten acres on
en-, through the arth there overhead,
wrong end foremost, AID the finest he did
think, except old father omlth's, that he
ever did see-and except that he calcoo-
lated father Smith would raise enough TO
stock York state and all creation, he
wnald havc thro,rn on! big bas, as. . ID
loaded the brig, for he could had elm for
the taking
Now very many people have a modest
and a taxing way with them-Mr. S. as
much Of the latter as any man-and J can
stand it in moderation as well as any man.
But as for Mr.. Smith and his india rubber
dog exploding in the air,-and carrots
growing through the world,-and YAM
X captains, and symmes' hole, its laying
IL on Il lutte grain too thick.
With what truth know not, but Mr.
Smith says re was once i'll Scotland; and
one time, having walked far on the sab
bath, he was very tired, and seeing con-
gregalion gathering at a village church, as
much to rest as anything else, he Stepped
inand took scat. Presently plain look
lug old Scotch parson took his stand in
the pulpit, and after prayer as long as
Jacobs ladder, (which they do tell me
reached from earth to heaven,) he preach
ed from This text
"Now The Lord ha prepared srea
fish to swallow up Jonah, "-Jonah liz.
Smith says, that after an introduction
of ONE Length about the hidden mystic
ries Of the deep, the works of creation in
general, and in particular, the be, birds
proving on the wee anes, and the muckle
flesh swallowing the leelle tesh' like man
kind he stopped short and began asking
his congregation the following ques-
tions:-
DO ony o ye thenk ye ken what sort
o'a beg flesh that was ere teIl't the Lord
prepared for till swallow up Jonee2 May
be some O We thenk it was muckle
peike2 Ma, it was no peike ava, for
Jonee wad hae To beena vera wee theng,
or, dad he peke wad had sat job O.
swallowln that Category wa. Am thenk-
in none o We ken what sort o. a flesh it
was. Maybe We thenk it was a CRATE beg
a muckle sheark? Ma,
ye're clean aft your eggs again. 1t was
no just shark, mind that moo; for Jonee
was too guid at duking an dodgin for "a
sheark (whilk has to turn on its back to
tax its food TO catch hem:-(orbye it was
no sturgeon; for nowistanin there be
sturgeon. muckle aneugh to contain
mon o nv size, (eef wanst in em,) yet
dell tax the ane o. ems got a throttle beg
enough to swallow tom catn-Here,
Smith s VS., there was a general slmperlng
the congregat on perceivlng
which, the minister said reprovingly, u
wus we we'd consult your dee nifty mair,
and wear graver faces in the temple o.
worship'-he then resumed,-'Sae we
maun plainly see it was no a sturgeon.-
Awell then, eff was no Livi-ahan the
o. the deep, Pm fond to thenk
we'll fash our braius to leetle purpose