Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-03-06
From the New York Sunday Mercury.
SHORT PATENT SERMON.


BY DOW, JR.
ON DEVILS.
TExr.-Thete arc many devils that walk this
Devils large and devils SMALL [world;
Devils so meagre, and devils so stout,
Devils with horns, and devils Without
Shy devils that go with their tails up curled,
Bold devils that carry them quite unfurled;
Mock devils and devils that braw!:
Serious devils and laughing devils,
Imps for churches and imps for revels,
Devils uncouth and devils polite,
Devils black and devils white,
Devils foolish aud devils wise,
But laughing woman with two black eyes,
Is the worst devil Of all
Ny HEARERS: I've got to take ish sub
iect by the horn this time; how ever am as bold
as lion, and don't care straw even for that
devil OF all devils, old Belzabub himself. He
and had set to long time ago, as the poet says
and the way ! thrashed the old covey was a
caution to his imps. He first came palaveriDg
round ME and tried 10 stuff me up with all sorts
of Tartarrean blarney. He said that vice, i'm.
mortality, intemperance and all such trash, was
iust the sort o'lhing 10 carry man safely round
the corners Of this oc,agonal word Said |, (put-
ting my thumb on my nose, as the boys do,) you
can't catch an old bird with such chat as that
you're liar, Satan, from the very beginning OF
all that ever begun to be, and you know it, 100.
So doubled up my two gospels, and let him
have it, right over the left peeper-then hi! his
retrospective kick, and told him 10 go to -.
He cut his stick fer dear life. and never has trou
bled me since. That, my hearers, was what
call fighting the good fight; and you should all do
the same when similarly moIesed. Just spunk up
TO the old codger-let him know you are not
afraid of him, aud you'll quick find out that he i:
one OF the biggest towards that ever wore hair,
say, stand your ground in spite Of the devil, ant
if you only are backed by faith and virtue. yot
can knock him down with psalm book just al
easy as nothing.
But, my friends, there are more devils thar
one that 20 about this world, seeking where the!
might catch somebody Some are monsters, AM
frightful to behold others are little and looF
pretty; but these are some Of the worst kind, be
cause you can't tighten, more than you ca
mosquitoes Some devils have horns-som
n't-and some have horns that shove in an
out like pencil case-out when they want t
use them--n at other times. Look out for Ihes
fellows! They are shy devils that mix up
great deal oil lnlsCHit loI US lnollaIo' Lucy ma
s. be found in great numbers in this goodly city
1 Gotham--ay, even in that filthy lane OF lucrt
which proiecteth towards the two great rivers cal
ed wallstreet. They carry their tails curled u
: in knot, or wind them round their legs, az
tuck the ends into their boots. Keep away fro
4 these if you please. There are devils among
Al that show their boots their horns, and the who
$, length OF their tails. need not warn you again
such; because, as my friend Alexander Pope say
they are monsters with such COMPOUNDED ug
mugs that. to be Stunned and despised, they ha,
-. only to 10 be squinted at. The meek dew
nj belong to the cunning tribe; but we have set
brawlng devils, around us that are enough
bring the ten plaques Of Egypt upon the kngdO
= of righteousness. They woke up Belzebub
New Years night by their internal orgies.
to They are his disinherited children-and veri
h. believe that when they are cast back into
" ssgnant pools Of damnation that spawned the
oh they will give their kindred spirits the scurvy.
n. Tophet itself will have q touch OF The bla
vomit.
Now, my beloved friends, | must pass owe