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


more than halt a century will confer on
the the nght or position OF saraa on this
int~resting theme, can assure my friends
through the channel OF your clever. spir-
ted weekly aper, 1h.t ifthey expect CT
desire to keenup any bearable under.
standing and intercourse with him, land
know there is no day in thu week that
they can entirely dispense with him.
they must adopt short settlements: Tor II
there are running accounts, on which his
side of the ledger sweIls, can tell them
he is very Jew of usurer-a perfect
Shylock OF an exacter, at the trade OF cal
cuiating and adding up long columns OF
figures OF interest and compound interest
I never had any other opinion when
boy, but that he it was who invented that
internal machine OF school inquisltorial
tortures to juveniles, the "MULTIPLlcA-
TON TABLE - Oh The very remln-
Iscence Of those iour-feet long switches,
that old Jimmy Polk, OF blessed birchen
memory, used to fink with such William
Tell-exact,ude, clear across that little
brick school house, jutting up against
the academy IN Eikton, Md, Just causes
the sweat Qhe ladies' can read il perspi-
ration to burst forth from me like cat
aract OF liquid lead lift only shou ID
ever happen that Jonathan Booth Gan ell
der school-mate Of mine) and should
meet old Jimmy way down there, I
''plrdge you my word," il Jonathan will
hold him for me, I'll gouge out both of
those little, sunken grey eyes, that used
to twinkle at me with such horrible lus-
tire, beneath the long, thick, heavy eye
brows, that, like two very Cerberusses,
sentriss at the base of that bald, shining
caput. But in sooth, as ! desire TO
oulgrow and outlive all such balbarous,
Iz ia lionis feelings, l can truly say, up
on second thought, If you will absolve
me from my pledge: l will like true
martyr, try 10 forego my revenge for
those "lhree times forty stripes, save
one" TAT each round) and forget to for
glve-no, mol mean-Oh, ah, yes-I
believe it is something about that After
all, I 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 brchen
shafts, or school-house thunder-bolts, I
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 trtlng amount of practice, |
became SO expert as to be able to select
victim on the other side of the school.
room, against whom had grudge, 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, old-time school-mastrrs.
He was the autocrat of all the snot'y no.
ses, Roman noses, Grec,an noses pug or
flat noses-pin stuck sleeves crownless
hats, end almost seatless breaches, with
suspicious looking flag OF truce, composed
OF doubtful c'-devuni white piece of lev
en- penny "tactory,' protrudng in such
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 I 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 I adored.) nsaking it for her
tea-towl under me II had purloined,
suddenly seizing and Juggling at it IN such
a frightiul fashion, that in spite OF my
truly desperate resistance. in the prolong-
ed struggle, she fell back and cut her
head against the corner of the table
which l Immediately bound up, 1.-THE
head, l mean,) with good hali-yard of
my factory, that she had so unwttingly
torn from its "trndpr tres IN thus rude
ly sundering it from III kindred garments.
lie diclu!
May never live to see the day when I
shall be brought so suddenly, soemny and
awkwardlv in contact with the digits OF
woman! All no. "Breathe not her name"
Poor dear child she ever went by the
auphonious cognomen, (but mind it was
only soubrique', nickname Of, Euphe-
mia Shir-t..l. No cat-a-srof in the course
of my eventful life ever approached this
(although have had bones brokeu) except
one thai, like It did ga tail unfoldw 1t
was about two weeks after, when I had got
this same lacerated garment comforted and
healed by reunion with its lost prod,ga
member, and everything began to wear
eoulenr de rose, I'm june,) one evening, al
twilight, yes, (bewitching twilight J l
stood, OF rather leant against the outside of
the cow-pen fence, entirely engrossed by
the all-absorbng business of counting Phe-
my, while she was milking within the pen;