Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-02-11

better take keer. There's several buckets up
here Of uncommon cold water, all Of which Is
at your service without charge-wont ask
you nothin', Moggs, for your washin'; and
if you're ~feverish, may be it will do you
good"
Everybody laughed, as you know every
body will, at any other body's misfortunes or
disaster. Everybody laughed but Moggs,
and he shivered.
"l'll sattinly ketch my death" moaned he;
"Tll be friz, standing straight up, like a big
i~cicle; or il | fall over when I'm friz, the
boys will slide on me as they go to school,
and call it fun as they go whizzing over my
countenance with nails in their shoes, scratch
ing my physimohogany all to pieces. They
tell me that being friz is an easy death-that
you go to sleep and don't know nothing a.
bout it. ! wish they'd get their wives to
slouse EN- all over with a buckle, Of water,
on such a night as this, and then try wheth-
er it is easy. Call being friz hard an easy
thing I'D rather be billed any time. What
shall | do-what shall ] dol"
"Perhaps they'll put you in an ice-house,
and kiver you up with tan till summer comes
you'd be good for something then, which
is more nor you are now" observed Mrs.
fuO2gS run TIE WlnuOW.
Quit twitting a man with his misfor-
tunes" whined MonteZuma, of the now bro.
ken-heart."
"Why, my duck !"
"Y-e-e-s-y-e-e-s! that's i'll am a duck,
indeed but by morning III be a SNOWFALL
the boys will take my head for a snow
ball. What shall do guves up, and
guves in"
"Well, III tell you, Montezuma Moggs,
what you must do to be thawed. Promise
me faithfully only to work half as hard as !
do, and you may come TO the fire-the ten
plate stove is almost red-hot. Promise to
mend boots, mind shop, and tend baby;
them's the terms-that's the price of admis-
SION"
Hard terms, certainly-the severest o fterms
but then hard terms, and severe terms, are
good terms, if no other terms are 10 be had.
One must do the best he can in the world, if
1t be imperative upon him to do something,
as it evidently was in Moggs' case. q
81 PROMISE" shivered Moggs.
"Promise what! 7"
"T-t-to tend baby, m-m-mind shop. and
m-m.mend boots;" and the vanquished Moggs
sank down exhausted, proving beyond the
probability of doubt, that cold water, when
skillfully applied Of a cold night, is the So
vereignest thing on earth for the cure of'.ge-
nus" in its laZier branches.
1t is but justice, however, to state, that
Moggs kept his word faithfully, in which he
contradlcted the general expectation, which,
with reason enough in the main places but little
reliance on promises; and he beca;ue, for him,
quite an industrious person. His wife's
buckets served as a continual remembrancer.
But Mrs. Moggs never eXnlted over his de.
feat; and, though once compelled to harsh
ness, continued to be to Montezuma a most
excellent wife. The shop looks lively now
and the bell to the door is removed; for
Moggs, with his rat-tat-tat, is ever at his post,
doing admired execution on the dilapidated
boots and shoes. The Moggses prosper, and
all through the efficacy Of a bucket of cold
water. We should not wonder if, in the
end, the Moggs family were to become rich,
through the force Of industry, and without
recourse to ''genus."
'Politics and me has shuck hands forever"
said the repentant Moggs. "l've been loo
king out and expecting loaves and fishes long
enough. Loaves, indeed! Why | never got
even a cracker, unless il was aside of the ear,
when there was a row an the election grounds;
and as for fishes, why, if I'd stopped any
longer for them to come swimming up to my
mouth, all ready fried, with pepper on 'em.
| wouldn't even have been decent food for
fishes myself. | never got a nibble. let alone
a bite; but somebody else always cotch'd the
fish, and asked me to carry 'em home for
them. Fact is, if people wont vote for me,
| wont vote for people. And as for the mil
entary line, give up in a gineral way, all
idea of being a gineral o%ssifer. Bonyparte is
dead, and if my milentary genus was so great
that | could MT sleep for it, who d hunt me
up and put me at the head of affairs No,
if I'm wanted for any thing, they'll have to
call me. I've lodged about winkin' and nod
din as long as the country had any right to
expect, and now-rst-tat-tat-l'm going to
work for myself"
1t was a wise conclusion on the part of
Moggs, who may, perchance, in this way, he
a "gineral" yet.