Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-01-20

many links of sausage as ahy no
that ever squealed at midnigHt It in hi
slaughter-p4n, and has lard en- pugll j
him to cook it all. Look at bis face
why, his chops remind a hungry ma
Of jowls and greens. If tlEis is
shadow, in the name of prbpriety
why didn't he show himself, when il
flesh, at the last fair, beside tie Ken
1 tucky. OK; that were more homes
way of making a living than stealing
hogs. But Hig ispining in $riefl-
wonder the poetic youth, his Learned
eounsel--did not quote Sha kspeart
again. 'He never told his woe
but let concehlment, like the worm i
the bud, prey on his damaslz cheek.
He looked Ii ike patience on q monu-
ment smiling at grief-or beef /
should rather say. But, gen tlemen,
probably l a m wrong; it may be that
this tender hearted, sensitive butcher,
vas lean, before, and, like Falstaff,
throws the blame Of bis fat on sor-
row and sighing, which has pulled
him up like a bladder (Hdre Hig-
ginbotham left in disgust.)
There, gentleme b, he goe 5, lard
ing the lean earth as he walks along
Well, has Doctor Johnson sal b: who
kills fat oxen should himself be fat
Poor Hig! stuffed likeeohe of his own
blood-puddings, With a qropsical
grief which nothing short Of t en- thou
sand dollars of Sgink' s md 4ney can
cure. Well. as grief p4tfs b I'm up, l
dont't wonder that nothing but de-
pleting anoth er man ca4 cur him.
~And now, gentlemen, | come to
the blood and thunder part of the
young gentlenan's ha|r r4pguf; empty
and vapid words, and thing else.
If any part OF this rigma role was
wlndier than any othd part this was
it. He turned himselfs int small
cascade, making great deal OF froth;
roaring, ioaining; the shall
lower it ran all the noiser it seemed.
lie iretted and knitted his Hrows; he
beat the sir and he vooileHated, al
ways emphasizing the meaningless
words most loudly; he pulfdd, swell
I'd out and blowed oil, until he seem
ID like a new bellows, all Bflss and
Wind. How he mouthed it Has those
stage-players, raj htihg out |
ustian in BARN theatre milhieing
WHO steals my purse steals trash"
| don't deny it) "'Tis mine, twas
lis, and has been slave TO thousands
but he who filches from me my |
good name, robs me Of that which |
lot enricheth him. (not in the least) (
but m axes me poor indie ed" tjust
o, but whether any pooreF than be
ore he parted with the inc dumbranee,
5 another matter.)
"But tie Young gentle man refers
0 his youth. He ought not to re-
roach u 5 of maturer age in that in-
Iireet Way; no one would have sus
,ected it Of him, or him bf if, il he
ad not told it; indeed, fiji pm hearing
i'm speak, we were prepare led to give
i'm credit for almost anB length Of
ears, But does not the youth re-
lember that Grotius vas only sew
nteen when he was in fill practice,
nd that be was attorney general at
wenty-two; and what is Grotius to
his greater light? Not the burning
t my smoke-house to the conhagra-
ion of Moscowl
"And vet young Grotius tells US
4 the next breath, tha It he never
new such a slander in the course of
is practicel Wonderful, indeed!
eeing that his practice has a Il been
one within the last six h ours Why,
0 hear him talk, you wo ould suppose
hat be was an old contine ental lawyer,
rown gray in the ser vice. H-i-sis
t-i-c-e-l Why, be is just in
is legal swaddling cld dthes! HIS 4
rqcfice - +
"ButI don't wonder he cant't see
be absnrdity ofsuch tai k. How long
oes it take one of the canine tribe, {
fter birth TO open his eyes? {
''He talked, too, of dutSide iniiu- {
noes; Of the public expectations, K
nd all that sort Of deInagoguism. | i
bseryed no evidence oi' any great ,
opular demonstrations in his favor,
Mess it be a tailor / saw stamping t
is feet; but whether that was be- {
suse he had sat cross-legged SO long
. wanted exercise, or was rejoicing {
scause he had got orders for new +