Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-07-11

is OfSAiiig duout. SndIlng at, and endeavOrlng tC
pick quarrel with larger animal, who seems
to take no notice of him. Is it not extremely prob.
able that this troublesome whiffet was once lit
tie peppery assemblyman or Congressman, who
was fond of attracting notice by assaling his bet.
ters; and that the noble dog beside him was a
member of the same body, but with too much sense
and character to take notice of him There, too
is smart active little terrier one who is death or
rats, and such sorts of vermin. He is keen fell
low on the scent, and woe to them if they come
within reach Of his paw. When clad in.humar
flesh, may he not have belonged to race almos
extinct, viz: an honest and vigilant thef-takerl
Did you ever see peacock in farm yard!
Bless our stars ! how he spreads himself. What
pains he takes to exhibit his gay feathers. He is
particularly fond Of exhibiting himself to the peo.
pie; and will strut for half day at time. just
IN front OF the house, where the inmates can not
well help seeing him In his former state of ex-
istence, he must have been beau of the first wa.
ter-nothing less, perhaps, than an ancestor ol
-, or Of.
Again dear reader, did you ever see an old hen
that had but one chick-that was constantly toll
ing, and clucking, and scratching, and making as
much ado as if she had large brood-and all
for the sake of this single fedgeling This mat
ronly old hen must have been some fond mother,
who labored and hustled, day and night, 20 get
together the wherewilhal to support-perhaps TO
supply the profigacy and dissipation of-an only
son, and spendihrift.
AS il is curious, the Pythagorean principle. to
trace out the former condition of the various brute
species, so it is no less amusing TO consider ih
what shape the different individuals of the human
race formerly appeared.
A little way off is lady Of fair exterior.-
Her voice is soft and gentle; her words are
smooth and tattering; and she seems TO be angelic
But wait minute. Something has crossed The
grain. Her eyes begin 10 flash-her face reddens
Jerusalem what fury she is in. She berates
her husband and everybody about her, and seems
now very devil in petticoats. She must have
been, formerly, some sleek tabby cat, who would
pur, and pur, and pur around you, pleased with the
hand that fed and stroked her; until CHANGING TO
rub the hair the wrong way, should suddenly fly
in rage, and spit, and scratch your eyes out.
Here is a man who is exceedingly rough in all
he does. II he is to embrace you, he will squeeze
ihe very breath out of your body. II he is shake
hands, he will give you such grip as to make
you cry out with pain, and almost imagine that
your fingers are in vice. He never speaks with
out growl In word, whether in conversation
or in action, he is the very anipodeS of poiieness
and consideration. 1t requires no stretch OF fan
cy to presume that in his former state of existence,
he was bear. The traces of his origin still re-
main, like some Indian moulds or tradrionary rel
les, remarkable for their distnctness.
The ladies that lutier in the streets Of populous
cities: spending great part of every fair day dis
playing their beauties to the sun, and dazzling the
eyes of beholders, must surely, in former state.
have been no other than gay butterflies, that spor-
ted for summers day and then disappeared from
the world.
The cunning speculator, who is ever busy in
looking out for bargains and constantly endeavor-
ing TO overreach-others in the way of trade, what
is he but some villainOus Old fox, who having cast
his skn still retains The principle characteristics
whereby he was distinguished in his former shape!
Slanderers, ii is natural to suppose, were for
merly toads, who. having ceased to spit their
ON in one way, have taken upon them the i'm
proved method of venting it in another.
False friends are but snakes, in different Dress
and many conquerors are tigers, delighting in
bloodshed merely for bloodshed's sake the same
as they did when they had four legs
We might 60 on, ad libitum, to enumerate par
allels; but what have been nstanced may serve
to show that they who denounce the doctrine of
Pythagoras as ridiculous ought not to be too con-
fdent in their own belief. Our present belief is,
that, as the bell is ringing we will close this chap
ter, and go to dinner-Noristown Register.