The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-08-18
A Docs and A BEcGAn's DoG-MAT-1-cA1
SOLILoQrIEs.

A Docs and A BEcGAR's Doc-MAT-I-cA1
SoLILoQrIEs.
Town Cat.-Well neighbor! YOU see
and perceive I've come to see YOU, ard to
talk about matters and things in general,
and generally good deal more So.---llow's
times! Plenty ofmicc-meat, for the tallng
En-! you purring, country gossip, you.
Country Cat.-Glad to see and perceive
thee, friend. Ipurr-r-r.l Times is ':tdr''-
mice is ''midd1ng''-''say, middli"g a .f'il"
as the cotton johbcrs say, "mnrka looking
up." "Dcmnnd Mi$k.''-'sStoc< on hand,
limited, and in the hands of few holders /;
who are tirm."-WeIl, what's the latest
agony" "Anything broke !''-as the fly
said to the SPIDERS web. Anything inn
port-ant!
7. c. Yes. A shlp-load of Irish, just
imported from -
c. C.. From where?
Z. C. From wherel No-not there.
Come, that passcs.--Why, from -
c. &. ireland, CT course.
7. c. No, There, you "put your foot
in it ."-as the mustard pot said to the
miss-ant.
&C Where then, thought the Irish
came from Ireland, always.
T.. G. no. From Starvation of course
IA place that's lately been eanneXed' to
their sweet, green isle. Maybe YOU don't
know what "anX'd" is lit means great
aoss--thcy've many Of them, they tell me.
So you sec and perceive, no good comes
from ''anN-ing"-) and YOU may know
that place is coarse enough, Of course
Why, my friend, I'll be bold to hazard the
assertion, without any "mcntal reserva-
tion,'') that if a bit of the stale. hard, dry,
mouldy crust, on which they make their
sad onc-meal-a-day repast (when they can
get bread, which is seldom, diseased pota-
toes, VIXEN they can get them, being almost
their only Diet was offered you, YOU would
not regard it fit for cat-a-piasm! and
would turn up your pretty nose at it; and
the whites Of your eyes, 70 boot. You
couldn't chew it, if YOU wouid--and you
wouldn't, if you couIdn't.-lhe idea Of
such food offered to you! you, who are
ever rioting in the best quality of country
corn-ted mice; and, though only second to
thesN,) as much rich cream and butter,
neutrality-suspicious. and butternilk as you
can wallow in! Great patience's great
grandmother - How some people do seem
TO flow along lite's current, that is, swim
in cream, like ducks in puddle, while
others are sinking (.tsucked ia'') in
maclstroom! Maybe you don't know what
that is It's a - - great, Dutch,
suction-p ipe-the best yet discovered, for
making blubbcrs.-Io return; as authors
say, when they take wrong start, and get
off the scent of the 'qrack''-like a To-
comoter; abullgine--)Butmaybeyo you don't
know what them is! (authors.) Why, au-
thors is odd fish Sometimes, scally--a
good deal tail-y-gcnerally, more So
sometimes, like watcr-snakes, Slippery
like them, they swims, (when they CAM
head Just above the water-but more gen.
orally they dives. cause why cant keep
aAoat get submerged-poor fellows! no
wonder reason why, too weighty (dull,
heavy to rise; all brains; and these, their
heaviest part, gravitating to their tails,
tales,) sin cose" they must sink, free
agents or not.-But as I was about to say,
how 40 envy you country people. 1ou>Ve
only to live on your fat; as they tell me the
bears do in Arkansas.
C. C.--Not possible! You envie us! you
who are rolling in the allluence and gran
deur, hustle and variety, ease and elegance
Of city life, envy plain, obscure. clownish,
country cats We who are debarred ma
ny Of your luxurious refinements Impos-
sible Im-pos-si-ble Come, 60 to--be cand
id, Don't descend to nattery, even with
ean Leave that sort of refined meanness
to the soi-disant (selfstyled) great! The
b;pcds; men and women, in form;--spes, in
fact!
7. C.-My friend, see here; cat even,
may be cat'y-gorically candid, and catty-
call-y philosophical. Listen. We are so
curiously constituted as seldom to be Ca
pable of rightly approaching our present
condition, because too apt to raise false
Standard that is, to weigh With false bal