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

BIZ LYMAN BLANCHAHD.
"Oh, what pity r exclaimed little
Lucy S., as she read 10 the newspa-
per the other day how Mr.. Green instead
Of attempting 10 fulfil bis design Of cross
ing the Channel in his balloon, had, in
consequence Of adverse weather, descen-
ded on the coast Of Sussex how provo.
king Why didn't he keep upt"
Lucy s. is certainly one Of the love-
lest little ladies living, but desperately
bent upon running to an extreme, and a.
larmingly prepossessed BY tondness for
excepting i:up.."
All! poor child. thought |, (hough
she's as old ss | am, and wiser, in all
things but this one, that pretty. fair hair.
ed head Of thine will surely GO. some Of
these days, bump against tho hull moon.
No need of balloon to help you to rise
into the air; and once aloft, you would be
for excepting il up" though you were with.
in mile Of Mercury.
What notions to be sure, some people
have Of keeping il up! Squaref and sol.
ider heads than Lucy's are often known
to run themselves against the same wall,
though from different point; heads well
lined with lead, too. yet there is no keep
ing them steady.
Lucy SIS giddy exclamation sug-
gested TO my mind remembrances of the
many modes Of excepting itup," by which
people contrive to get driven out 10 sea
when they might be safely lodged on the
coast Of Sussex--of the myriads Of bal
Icons that are advantage ously kept up, TN
til the uniucky and unlocked for minute,
when the descent becomes an involunta-
ry one.
The angry wife is an nronau. Of this
order. Knowing that words are but air,
she fancies that she cannot have too ma
ny of them. Up she shoots, needless viii
| ther the gust Of passion carries her. Some
uncomfortable sensaiions--a sudden chill
at heart-a pang produced by nervous
bile selfinflicted upon the talking organ
whispers, perhaps, that she is going too
far, and warns her to descend in time =
but pride and folly tell her to keep il up"
in spite Of every thing, and just as she
succeeds t,iumphantly in having what she
resolved to have-the last word she sud.
denly drops and sees herself ''alone on
wide, wide sea-" without chance of ris.
ing more.
thought as quickly Of tho perversity
which the other sex exhibits in that and
thousand similar respects. pictured the
dssiPated Speculation who, finding that ne
has taken the wrong path, resolves to Pur-
sue it TO the end, If only for the seeing
whether there is thoroughfare or not. |
drew an image Of the foolish crotcheteer,
who, rather than acknowledge that he is
CROCHET, would quarrel with the whole
word--cati friend and neighbor knave
and fool-and at last dashes has brains out
to demonstrate his GOODNESS and good
sense. saw in idea the hobby hunter.
VINO, having just been thrown by one vi
cious jade, mounts with weakened limbs
another Of the same breed, and 50 cont'n-
ues riding between hospstal and hospital
bravely resolved ever to keep it up though
even more destined to be cast down.
The infinite shapes which folly assumes,
when the principle Of keeping It up has
once taken possession Of the soul oil sane
being, occurred in rapid succession to my
mind. One man gets trapped on the turf,
only TO learn the lesson that, once entered
there, he must keep it up, or be ruined
another cannot for life help riding after
pack Of hounds OF his own, and when he
has shown that he can keep ii up at pref
ty good pace, every body knows what an
lmals he is going to. ~
A taste for farming takes hold Of one
sensible fellow, and when it has converted
his head into turnip Of very different
sort, he discovers that farming is thing
which requires to be constantly kept up,
or else il is APT to prove failure, while
another, equally judicious, having sought
the bubble reputation by indlting pam
phlet. finds out that fame requires TO be
kept up by continual effort, and so prints
away a respectable fortune ia pamphlets
for private circulation.
IL the same man entered Parliament,
and succeeded ia fxing the attention OF
the House, he would try to keep il up I'M
I'll two in the morning. If the country,
in defiance Of painful and high-priced ex-
penence, has been hoaxed iato belief 10
his patriotism and Independence, he would
try to keep it up the old tune and the oad
air, long after the mask had fallen of, and
60 on trying to hoax still, to the end OF
life's stormy and Improbable session.
Even m their pastimes, people exhibit
the same partial ties, with, where this prin-
ciple prevails, the same inevitable tenden-
cies. The professor Of boating keeps il
up by rowing under apaddle wheel, as the