The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-08-10

more than hall century will confer on
the the nght or position OF saran on this
interesting theme, can assure my friends
through thu channel Of your clever. spir-
tied weekly aper ,h.t if,hey expect or
desire TO keepkup any bearable under
standing and intercourse with him, land |
know thele is no day in thu week that
they can entirely dispense with him,
they must adopt short settlements: for il
there are running accounts, on which his
side Of the ledger swells, I can tell them
he is a very Jew of a usurer-a perfect
Shvlock OF an exacter, at the trade OF cal
cuiating and adding up long columns OF
figures OF interest and compound interest
never had any other opinion when
boy, but that he it was who invented that
internal machine OF school inquisltorial
tor,ures to Juveniles, the "MuLrIPLlcA-
TON TABLE - Oh The very renln-
lscence Of those tour-(eet long switches,
that old Jimmy Polk, OF blessed birchen
memory, used TO fink with such William
Tell-exacttude, clear across that little
brick school house, juttng up against
the academy IN Eikton, Md, Just causes
the sweat Qhe ladies' can read ii perspi-
ration to burst forth from me like cat
aract OF liquid lead lift only should
ever happen that Jonathan Booth Gan ell
der school-mats OF mine) and l should
meet old Jimmy way down there, I
'plrdge you my word," if Jonathan will
hold him Tor me, III gouge out both Of
those little, sunken grey eyes, that used
TO twinkle at me with such horrible lus-
ire, beneath the long, thick, heavy eye
brows, that, like two very Cerberusses,
sentries at the base of that bald, shining
caput. But in sooh, as l desire TO
ou,grow and outliye all such balbarous,
'e1 ia 'ionis feelings, l can truly say, up
on second thought, If you will absolve
me from my pledge. l will like true
martyr, try to forego my revenge for
those "hree times forty stripes, save
one" TAT each round) and forget to for
g,ve-no, mol mean--Oh, ah, yes-I
believe it is something about that After
all, ought not to be too hard-for he
did "teach the young idea how to shoot"
yes. so much so, that perhaps except
there, in faint imitation Of his Jove-
like launching forth of those blrchen
shafts, or school-house thunder-bolts,
might never have attained to that une.
qualed discovery and unrivalled inven-
ton in the most approved art and science
Of "gunnery," mean sir, that gull pop
gun. and potato shot-by means VI which
after very tritling amount of practice, |
became SO expert as to be able to select
victim on the other side of the school
room, against whom had agrudge, and
plant potato shot so nicely in one Cor
ner OF mis- eye, that the fool would cry
out with pain and be sure to get logged
either from making noise and disturbing
the school, or else for not being able to
see TO finish his copy without sundry
blots, each al the expense of his head,
hand: or back. All give me, after all,
your genuine, od-time school-mastrrs.
He was the autocrat of all the snot'y no.
ses, Roman noses, Greclan noses pug or
flat noses--pin-stuck sleeves, crownless
hats, end almost seatless breaches, with a
suspicious looking flag OF truce, composed
OF doubtful ci-devani white piece of lev
en- penny "tactory,' protrudIng in such a
manner as to stick out TO an enormous,
an alarming eXtert brhind-fairly WOO.
ing the passing. tickle breeze. One OF
the most notifying scrapas l ever got
into though about this plague Of bit of
muslin was, from good big girl who
was about to wash the tea things, land
whom ] adored.) installing it for her
tea-towl under me II had purloined,)
suddenly Selling and Juggling at it IN such
a trightiul fashion, that in spite OF my
truly desperate resistance. in the proong-
ed struggle, she fell back and cut her
head against the corner of the table
which 1 immediately bound up, 1.-THE
head, mean,) with good halt-yard of
my factory, that she had so unwittingly
torn from its "trndpr tres IN thus rude
ly sundering it from its kindred garments.
-.Mirabi lie diclu!
May never live to see the day when
shall be brought so suddenly, solemnly and
awkwardlv in contact with the digits OF
woman An no. "Breathe not her name"
Poor dear child-shs ever went by the
euphonious cognomen, (but mind it was
only soubrique,, nickname,) Of, Euphe-
mia Shirt-t..l. No cat-a-strof in the course
of my eventiuI life ever approached this
(aithough have had bones broken) except
one thai, like It did ga tail unfold" 1t
was about two weeks after, when had got
this same lacerated garment comforted and
healed BY reunion with its lost prodlgal
member, and everything began TO wear
eouleur de rose, I'm June,) one evening, al
twilight, yes, (bewitching twilight J l
stood, Or rather leant against the outside Of
the cow-pen fence, entirely engrossed by
the all-absorbing business of counting Phe-
my, while she was milking within the pen;