Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1843-11-02

compelled to get home that night, taxing
me with him--the vehicle (horse and gig J
being mine. | therefore pressed him 10
come away, and move on. in haste to be
off. No; he would kill the hundredth
bird Ia vain did t.lk Of the bad road,
and its many dangers for want Of moon.
The poor cartridges, which we had scat
tered about were calling all around us,
and, Just at this moment up got one under
his feet, 10 field in which the VIII, at was
three or four inches high. He shot, and
missed. THAT'S it" said he. running
to PICK up the bird. /" What :" said l.,
!" you don't think you killed. do you'-
Why there Is the bird now, not only nlive
bat calling ia that wood = which was a.
bout hundred yards distant.
He, in that form Of words usually EN-
ployed in such cases, asserted that he SD y
the bird. and saw him fall; and |, in much
about the same form Of words, asserted
that he had missed, and ,hsiI, with my
own eyes, saw the bird hy into the wood.
This was too much-to miss once nut Of a
hundred times! To lose such chance
Of immortality! He was good humared
man; ! liked him very much; aud could
not help feeling fnr him when he said.
well sir, ! killed the bird; and if you
choose TO 20 way, so as to prevent me
from finding il, you must do il; tn dog is
yours, to be sure The dog said in We
~ mild tone; why there is the spot; and
could We not see Il, upon this green sur
face il it was therel However he began
to look and Gale the bog, and afertsd
to JON in the search. Pity for his weak
ness got the httter ofmy dread Of the bid
road. After waking backwards and for
wards many times upon about twenty
yards square, with our eyes fixed up the
ground looking for what was not there !
had passed him, Che was going one way
and the other. and happened to be turn.
ing round just after | had passed him,
when saw him putting his hand behind
him, taking partridge out Of has bag, and
let II fail on the ground, / felt no temp
tation to detect him, but turned my head
away, and kept booking about. Present.
ly he, having returned to the spot whore
the bird was. called out To me, IN the mos;
triumphant tone,--'I1ere! here ! Come
here!" went up to him, and he pointed
with his finger down to the bird, and look
ing hard in my face, at the same time.
said, There, hope that will be ararn-
ing to you never to be 50 obstinate again!
WELL said I, come along. and away
we went as merry as larks. When we
got to Browns he told them the story, tri.
umphcd over me most ciamorously;
though he often repeated the story t. my
face, never had the heart 20 let him
know that knew ofthe imposition, which
puerile vanity had induced so sensib'e and
honorable a man to be mean enough n
practice"
This, oh! SWEET little Lucy Sis no
uninstructive chapter in the history Of
human chnrncter--if you win hut bow
your head quietly to read j.. This all
comes Of the determination not to give IN
lin other words, Of that same disposition
to "keep it up''-wherefors we ore DIS
coursing; and he who permits himself 10
be so carried away by vanity, may per-
chance fall headlong into deeper sea
than the ar9naut whose machine bursts a
mile above the broad ocean. Cobbett's
"famous shooter" had a reputation to
keep up, but he was at least as expert
with the longbow as with the gun. and
could maintain falsehood as easily as h :.
could fire.
| LIE, those. dear Lncy, who are hu, just
beginning thsir course Of hes in life, only
think for an instant, how and by what
means sportsmen ofths order, when they
have once declarded that they brought
down their bird, will dare to keep up their
fction-by what means, being wrong at
first, they will, at all risks. move further
from right, rathor than own their error!
What cioaks Of falsehoods (that becomes
as winding sheets) they will fling around
them to conceal the first Himsy garb OF
deception which vanity mad prompted
them to put on! What blsckness they
will dye their brows in, rather tn "a be seen
| to blush!
| Oh! my Lucy S., never in your
person can you need lesson s, grave as
this; but you may require to learn that
people should not keep il up overmuch,
cvcfi WHcu tHC oujcCt 10 uut S""Ni'SNoSNs
Some will keep up their very jokes. until
they are echoed by signs OF pain instead
Of laugh,er-their little friendly ho,xes
and mystifcations until they become Of
fences dire. Some cannot so much as
fall into the humor of lively laughing
game OF fnghls, without frightening some
body else into fits; they must keep il up.
Be not this fault thine.
| But to show thee tina, every rule has
its exception, take this loving, If still need
less hint, into thy gentle keeping. Whea
tau hast good cause to upbold--a cause
just and generous, uphold il persevering
Iy. let it not iail; and as, unburdened by
al thoughts or al deeds, thy conscien.
tous head, amidst the many that hang
down abashed and afraid, is turned, 10 thy
wanderings upon earth, towards the heav-
en- where angels weep over the fantastic
tricks Of morials-why Keep ii up,
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