Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-09-23

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knot in his own tail, and that would be a
pig's.he.
At celebration in Marion county.
H., a Young lady offered the following
toast s. The young men of America hei,
arms our support-our arms their reward
Fall in, men fall in
Tho following couplet from Tom
Hood is rare juxtaposition Of similar
sounding words -
'lhe sigh that upward goes
! Shows Rose knows those beaux woes."
-" Watchman, spare that jug. Touch
not single drop. Il served me many a
tug, and will be its prop. 'Twas my fore
fathers hand that placed it in his cot
! There, watchman, let it stand-thy club
shall harm it not. That old familiar jug,
whose credit and renown, are known to
many mug, and wouldst thou smash it
down? Waterman, forbear thy blow,
break not its earthbrown clay, nor make
the liquor flow, but let that old jug stay"
The Waterman could not stand so power
full an appeal, and after leaving pamphlet
of the Maine Liquor Law, used next day
for shaving papers, he took his departure.
bursts of Esloquence.
The following burst of eloquence was de-
livered before court OF justice in Pennsyl-
vania:
"Your honor sits high on the adorable
seat of Justice, like the Aslatic rock Gibral-
tar. while the eternal river of mercy like
the cadaverous lily of the valley, flows me-
andering at your feet
The following is the commencement of q
speech Of lawyer in New Jersey:
"Your honors do not sit there like marble
statues, to be waited about by every idle
breeze"
Another orator thus commenced his har.
angue:
''Tho important crisis which werc about
to arrive have arroven.
Another thus expatiated:
"The court will please to observe that
the gentleman from the east has given them
a very learned speech. Hehas roamed with
old Romulus, socked with old Socrates,
ripped with ole Euripides, and canted with
old Cantharides, but what, your honor, does
he know about the laws Of Wisconsin,
Extract from the argument of n young
lawyer before Mississippi justice
Sc May it please the COURT would rather
live for thirteen hundred centuries on tho
small end of a thunderbolt--cba the ragged
end of fash of Neutrality-suspicious. the
corners of Virginia worm fence, and have
my bowels torn out by green briar, than
to be thus bamboozled by the gentleman"
Sam Slick On Cour,inx.
"Cour,in' gal, guess is like catch
in young horse in the pasture. You
put the oats in pan, hide the halter,
and il comes up softly and shyly at first,
and puts its nose to the grain, and gets
a taste, stands Of and muuches little,
LOOKS round to see if the coast is clear.
and advances cautiously again. ready for
go if you IRE rough. Well, you soft
sawder il all the time, $3.50. pet! gent
ly, pet, that's a pretty doll and il gets
TO kinder like it, and comes closer. and
you think you have it, MAKE grab al
its mane, and it ups head and tail. snor,s
wheels round. let's 60 both hind feet
at you. and of like a shot. That comes
Of being in a hurry. Now, il you had put
your hand up slowly toward its shoulder.
a nd felt along its neck for the name, il
might perhaps have drawed away. as
much as TO soy, hands of. if you please;
like your oats but don't want YOU
the chances is, you would have caught
it. Well, what's your play. now you
have missed it! Why, you don't give
chase, for that only scares the criiier--
but you stand still. shake the oats in
the pan, and say, cope. cope! and it
stops, looks at you and comes up again,
bur awful sKitiish, stretches its neck out
ever so far. steals a few gains. and then
Keeps respectful distance. Now. what
do Won do tben2 WHY shaKe the nan.
and more slowly. a. il you were going
to leave the pas,ur and maze for hum.
when j, repents of being SO distrastiul,
aascsSs 10. and yo.s slie The halter on