Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-11-26
JOB PRINTING.
Executed with neatness aud dspat CHI al this Office.
LUSUS NATURE.

LUSUS NATURE.
THE sto:y here versiisd is probably familiar. in
different guse to many of our readers. 1t will bea
telling again: particularly when cmbellished with tn
harmony of founders. The rhymes are from the New
England Magazine.l
Whilom in Gotham, that prodigious CITY,
Where dwarfs assume the character of giants,
Where splendor laughs what she should pity
Where dwell rich advocates and well feeced clients
And hordes on hordes too numerous for my dty,
There lived for years votary of science,
stern philosopher, man of parts,
A master Of all languages and arts.
He was a searcher Of that hidden lore
Which buried lies beneath tine dust Of ages;
Long rusty medals would he pore,
With brows all twisted like an ancient sages's
Prislng them dearer than the pure gold ore
A foe TO MOTHS that banquet on gold pages,
He loved quaint looks. devices. omels strange,
Lusus Nature was TO him great
treasure, when discovered. as a mine
To gold-seeker, or a new estate
Toa young spendthrih or some choice ole wine
To him tina sits dinner rather late
And, more by far than relics oil lang Syne,
Did he admire the ''nseparable boys"
Wonstra hOrrenda were his flvorte toys.
One day, as los; in deep. forgetfu! study,
lie DOCTOR Sa.d ne hearA a sudden rap;
And in there staked a tall, and somewhat ruddy
Good humore ed looking, iovial country chap,
With spairerd clohes,and boots bedimmd and muddy,
While from his head he ook his cap,
But marching straIgh,way 10 the Doctors side,
With starting eyes and mouth extended cried
oh. Doctor have seen the strangest sight
A man half black Halt black. upon my word,
Exclaimed the Doctor, trembling with delight
s'Tis strange, indeed,--half black! Pve often heard
OF individuals not wholly white
"A auis this,-a most bird
Half black 2 Yes, SIR, he rom head to foot,
As blacS-as black-yes-quite as black as soot.'
sit down. sir, if you please I'll get my book
Here the learn'd Tlsban on his table spread
folio spacious-then pen he took,
with inks that colored were both black and red
That he mil ht make his annOtations look
In hue according TO what should be said
About the half black first in dark ink
His gull he dipped, and then began to think;
Or rather talk aloud--'Onc hundred, three;
Yes-rhat's the age which I'll note it down,
Lasus Nature hsaded-lel me see,-
AlbiDas whe-eyed woman toasted brown.
Ring. streaked lambs monstrous bumbe-bee, Esd
Child with two heads,-the offspring of a clown
Two heads than better,-people claim,
Hem this child's father thought the same.
Here will draw a line,--and on enc side
will describe IN black the half black part,
The other may be rec,-just then he spied
The stranger smile, and turning. with START
The Doctor said, perhaps the man was dyed"
The stranger laid his hand apon his hear-
upon my honor, there is deceit; =.
Half black, he truly was, head, arms ind feet
WAS half his head black y yes One black yes.
'One leg black Yes Foot, ankle, wrist and hand?'
The fact is Doctor neither more nor less-
fnow before your eyes the man should stand
All unreveaIed in native loveness;
And through his countenance, SO broad and bland,
Aad through his body should you draw mark,
One half would be unutlerably dark,
What, black Egypt p Yes, ia every sease;
His darkness might be felt The Doctor smiled,
For, though man OF very learn'd pretence,
He loved joke.-often had he beguled
An hour in merry wit, and could dispense
With deepest study, gladly a child,
On some weak pate q sudden joke to crack
The strangers answers all down liz black.
Now, soberly. the Doctor wiped his pen.
And, gazing round with self complacent air,
SeIzed the red ink, thar he might copy then
The color OF the part to be more lair.
One halfas black Egypt. said again
The saplens scrbbler. please relate with care.
The hue OF rother half-white red and blue p
'Why-that, sir, was-as black a. Egypt toor
The N. Y. Tribune speaking Of now school
hiso-y oil the u. States says: ut commences
with the discovery Of America aud closes with
the cleo ion of Polk; and il ANYBODY can tell how