Mississippi Democrat., 1845-11-26


and ne Is taking notes of You, 10 entertain
hls mate with, and it is his nature to sing
l-you need not mind that, but had better
be looking out for safe places to step on
have before now trod on a snake-so
may you.
1t is getting wet, and you may roll up
your trowsers, if you please--but then
your legs vii! be scratched, and all the CON-
fort YOU will have from the " Misses" your
wife, will be-" you would 90, and Ror
you see" Plaster your smarting shins with
that by and bye
There is no use in grumbling-your sOr-
row IS of your own seeking. The bog
and the swamp cannot be blamed. They
were as quiet, calm and unruffied as
Quaker's shirt, till you broke ia upon their
rest. They did not come to you--you be-
gan it, and now go ahead.
The first step towards contentment is to
know when you are we'll off, How Won
tickle the fancy of the red-winged Black
Birds, with the double piston motion YOU
describe with your legs in those two black
holes, ont of which you are so vainly try
ing to extricate them, one at time-frst
one and then the other. That viii never
do-jump, lift both at once-what, are Won
fast? well, hold on and take breath a mo-
ment, and III tell YOU about that bull frog
Ii is all right with him-he is at home
here, and gets along iamously. where YOU
only stick and lose your shoes and tenn
per. If you had only known it. and
thought SO at the time, you were doing
very well when you had your dry clothes
on at home. Your room faces the south
west, and was comfortable when yOu LEFT
it; and the hanging bird that sings in the
elm-tree, with his neighborS the Robin and
the Thrush, together, are as good as q
Bob'ink or bulItrog, any day. Impatient
man! with your slippers and a seat on a
sofa-and your " Wandering Jew"-and
room to stretch your legs in-with these.
and the stated preachers Of the Gospel TO
keep you, and no horrid noise, smoke, or
phantom TO drive voa off. Yon woaid 90
IA pleasurIng, and splash through the crust
Of the earth, to be bloodSucked by .icks
and Ieeches, and laughed at by BobhnkS.
Your wife Is now eating strawberries, and
thick cream; she has fine ho, rolls. too.
50 light, and 50 very white within, woOine
the hard yellow butter to come and melt
upon them. How Is your appet.tel-
Strawberries and cream do not grow m
dismal bogs--nolhing good or wise grows
or goes there.
Had YOU remained under Your own
vine and fig tree, you would not have been
where you are. There, by Pluto. YOU
have upset your bait! The deed is done.
You can go home now, directly, or play
Bobllnk where YOU are, at your leisure
; or improve your mind by reflection. Lei
your mind hold communication with iisel
. consider the lilies of the valley, aut
the shrunk cabbageS, too--and see how
they get along' without work-wondel
away at the march OF time, and the moul
: dering of rotten wood, and contemplate
/ the economy of nature, who uses up al
her s. soap fat'' and ashes,n aud waste.
nothing.
The worm and the hectic DESTROY IN.
, s.p, the bark, and the wood, while the spi
t der and the ant eat of them-then ihinl
q of what a Kilkennv-hke wisdom il is II
: those very spiders and ants--iO eat az
: each other. If YOU remain long wher,
= you are, they will eat you. Fresh mea
: is not to be had every dav in the swamp
The butcher only comes once in a while
: and fresh, soft fisherman is not 10 b
r despsed in such place.
!. There is a time for all things, saws ih
/. Prophet, and there will be a time for yo
S to get out of this damp place; dinner Tim
s will come after that. Now is your tim
0 for repentance. Make yourself comlor
i able; sit down for your sins. and be sOrr
:, for your misdeeds. Consider well vou
j past follies, aud think OF the time whe
I. YOU were boy and told stOries-how yo
;; maliciously Irespassed upon the Deacon
ID melon patch, whose sitting goose YOU brok
n. up, merely 10 have the fun of breakin
a the half-hatched eggs, and seeing IN
d hearts beat in the web-footed. yolky,'lell
:e like things they contained. Think ho'
N wicked it was of you to slap the house
20 maids face, because she hurt your hea
lie when she combed il; and almost id ne
Il eyes because she washed your neck to
r you on Saturday night, thai YOU mlghi ne
r. disgrace your ancestors next day al ehuFel
I'd by an equivocal tInge or hues and wors
d, than all--confess with shame--lhe wa
le you mangled the heart of Mary Ann, wh
/" loved you, and shared her luncheon I
~ gingerbread with you at school, and alway
Is told you when you did not know, 50 ths
Id you could make a reasonable display
,ff beles-lettres and catechisnI, and all tn
Id Whom you basely deserted and left
I'd her anguish, merely because she had
re cold in her head and blister on her IA
or and would not wait for the proof when st