Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1852-11-25

put together all the facts about the witnesses hearing
The hogs squeang at night; the different marks Of the
hogs the losses the neighLorhood perverted the
timony and supplied omissions until you would suppose
hearing him, that had been fully proved that poor
Hg had stolen all the meat he had ever sold in the
market. He asseverated that his suit malicious
conspiracy between the Mefhodss and Masons crush
his client But all this leave out not bearing on
the main subjecl-myself
He came back to me with renewed appetite He
said he would conclude by paying his valedictory re-
spects his juvenile end-as this tho last time he
ever expected to have the pleasure Of meeting him.
THE poetic young gentlemen had said that by your
verdict against his client, you would blight forever his
reputation and that Of his manly son. and dim the rad
OF his blooming daughters beauty Very pretty,
upon my word But gentlemen, not fine, not so
Poet;cal by ba as precious moroccan OF poetry which
adorns the columns Of the village newspaper, bearing
the initials Of j. c. r. AS this admirable production
has excited great deal Of applause in the nurseries
and 'arding schools must beg read il, for the
instruction OF the gentlemen, he has already
but for the entertainment Of the Jury Ii is addressed tn
Re- B''' young lady of this place Here il goes !"
Judge my horror when on lookin up, saw HIM take
old newspaper from his poo ket and pulling own his
spcctaces began to read Off in stage-actor style,
some verses had written for Rose Bells Album. Rose
had been worrying sometime 10 write her something.
To get rid Of her opportunities, had scribblsd of
few lines AMI copied them in the precious volume Rose
the little fool took them for something very clever (she
had more tina thimbeiu Of brains in her doll
baby ad)-and tckcd with them, that she got
her brother Bill about fourteen, copy them of,
well he could and take them the printing Office
Bill threw them under the door the printer as big fool
either not only published them, but in his Internal
kindness, pulled them IN some critical concentrations
of his referring 10 the gifted author one Of the
most promising Of the younger members of bar"
The fun. 10y this time, grew fast and furious. The
country people, who have about much sympathy for
young town lawyer badgered by old one, for a
young cub beset by rurs and who have about much
idea respect for poetry ms for witchcraft, joined in
the mirth with gse. They crowded around old KAsm,
and ned nd as Mt "A cir nd and
sheriff in vain tried TO keep order Indeed his honor
smiled aloud twice. and to his retreat,
pretended cough, and fined the sheriff five dollars for
not keeping silence ia Even the old clerk whose
immemJrial pen behind his right ear had the hair
from that side Of his head and who had not smiled in
court for twenty years aud boosted that Patrick Henry
couldn't disturb him in making up a judgment entry,
actually turned his chair from the desk and pat dopn
his PEN afterwards he put his hand to his head three
times in search Of III forgetting, in his attention to old
Kasm, what he had done with
Old Kasm went reading and commenting by turns
forgot what the nefable trash was, wouldn't reco-
lect it if / could My equanmity will only stand a
phrase that still fingers in my memory, fixed
there by old Kasm's rdicule: had said something
about my "bosoms anguish"-about the passion that
was consuming me; ami to illustrate it, or to mae thke
line jingle, put in something about "Egypts Queen
taking the Asp to her bosom-which for the sake OF
rhyme metre. called the "venomous worm"-how
the COMPOUNDED thing brought in neither know nor
want to know. When old Kasm came to that he said
he fully appreciated what the yonng bard said-he
believed it. lie spoke of vcnomous Nov, il
he Kasm) might presume TO give the young gentleman
advice he would recommend SWANS Patent Vermilugc.
He had doubt that il would ecctually him OF
his malady, his love, and last hut least, of his
rhymes-which would be the happcs, passage IN bis
eventful history.
rouldns stand ii any longer had borne il to he
las point of human endurance When il came only TO
sknnng, there; but when he showered down
aqualortis the raw, and then seemed disposed rub
il in, fed 'Abii, erupi, evasi" The lat thing
heard was old Kasm calling back. amidst the shouts
Of the audiencc-bu
The next information received of the case. was n
letter that came To Naichez my rcsiden "a,
from Hicks about month afterwards, telling that
the jury ION which should have stated old Kasm had
got two infaels and fou ant-masons)ha had given N n
verdict for defendant that before the court adjourned
Frank Glcndye had got sober and mov'd for new
trial. the ground that the verdict against evil
dence, and that the plaintiff had had Justice by
reason Of the incompetency Of his COUNSEL and the
abandonment of his cause and that he got new tia
well he should have done.