The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-03-19
For tie Kalida Venture,
ETcHINGs WITH A SHARP STICK.
The Pettifogger.


The Pettifogger.
"It requires all kinds Of people to make
up world" This is a remarkable saying,
no less true, however, than old, and there
fore we do not hesitate to quote it when
writing of character, perhaps not peculiar
to, but undoubtedly abounding in this thin
ly peopled region of ours 10 an extent not
known in other lattudes.
Timothy Titabout, may be truly set down
as victim to an overweening love for courts
ofjustice, and all the dirty little whippngs
in of six-penny lawsuits. Timothy is not
lawyer-that is, his mind is not imbued
with the truths as nculcated by the priests
of The profession, and as Lord Coke says he
has not drawn from the bottom of the we'll
and therefore does not comprehend the rea-
son Of the law. Yet it would be doing Tim
othy manifest injustice to place him among
the inglorous vulgar, who know nothing Of
the sublime science, through the hocus-po-
Gus operations of which one part of the
world make their pork and potatoes upon
tho verdant spots in the natures of the other
part.
Timothy is great lawyer in manner pc
culiar to himself. But still great lawyer.
He has at his fingers ends as may cases in
point, 10 say nothing of the pontsin cases, as
many ot those the business Of whose lives is to
trade in the black letter of the law; and then
his cases are such as to come home to the
heart of an inquirer, being nothing less than
the decisions and dictum, judicial and extra
judicial. of all the country justices of the
Peace, at whose august sessions Timothy
is regular attendant 1t is therefore as
plain as the nose on a mans face that limo
thy is most important, and useful person.
age in his noighborhood. An oracle of the
lava kind of walking law-library, and
dspensatory--a locomotive pade-mecam of
legal lore, without whom the world ofcourse
could not prosper, and with whom Timothy's !
own garden fades as the leaf. Timothy has
victimizcd himselffor the benefit his neigh
bors. | knew him in his youth. His was a
precocious genius; very little culture warm
ed it into life. Timothy quickly learned this
fact, and as is too frequently the case rode
a free horse to death. Instead of appcasng
its hunger upon the ample but wholesome
food of the horn book, be goaded the willing
jade through mud and mire, over poll bridges,
and rail bridges, through all kinds of dirt
and filth, until now alas! the painting animal
stands still, and can only point to trials past
AT the age Of twenty-five Tim was master of
his trade; genuine son CT Vulcan. AT
peep of dawn you might see him at his forge,
hear his bellows putting, and he whstling
ccompanIment-much in the manner that
we have since heard Tim putting to a country
Justice, and The ragged little rascals around
laughing the accompaniment at his verdancy,
while the sparks from smitten steel" in the
one, and of!ma smitten intellect in the other
case, told with what effect the blows fell upon
their several subjects. Timothy's face was
not then as pale as it is now, nor were his
hands so delicately white! But the one in
is smart lineaments gave forth the smile of
content, and prosperity while
The sunburnt hands
So hard and brown with toil'
Only gave evidence of that industry that
'eclaims the Wilderness, and beauties the
world!
Tmothy's work then was of that high and
holy order.
''That lives for ages and endures [
Beyond the hero's name.''
But Timothy in his evening and morning
PRISONS, neglected that most important Of c
Ill prayers TO be saved from his friends; atan +
lnlucky moment for poor Timothy they car +