Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-09-10

him, in thunder-lihs accciits, face TO fscc.--
When he stood with his heal among the clouds,
be was quite alone and had been SO for hundreds
Of years, and would be so forever. Even if he
had met Gno;her giant, Antwus would have
iancied the world not big enough for two such
yass persomgcs, and, instead of being friends
with him. would have fought him till one Of the
two was killed.. But with the Pygmies he was
! the most sportivc, and humorous, and merry
hearted, and sweei-tempercd old giant that ever
washed his face in u wet cloud. ,fllu vasi sp,
His little friends, like I'LL ether small people,
/ had great opinion Of their own Importance, and
used to assume quite a patronizipg air towards
the giant. :, at,
She has very dull time Of it, abby himself,
aud we ought not to grudge wasting little Of
our precious time to amuse him. He is not half
so bright as we are, to be sure and, for that
reason, he peeds us to look after his comfort and
happiness. Let us be kind to the old fellow
Why, if Mother Earth bad not been very kind to
ourselves, we might all have been giants too"
On all their holidays, the Pygmies had excel.
: lent sport with An,aus. He often stretched
; himself out at full length on the ground, where
he locked like the long ridge of hill; and it
was good hours walk, no doubt, for ashort.
legged Pygmy to journey from head to foot OF
the giant. He would lay down his great hand
fat on the grass, and challenge the tallest Of
them to chamber upon it, and straddle from fin
ger to finger. So fearless were they, that they
made nothing of creeping in among the folds OF
his garments. When his head lay sidewse on
the earth, they would march boldly up, and
peep into the great cavern of his mouth, and take
it all asa joke, Gas indeed it was meant) when
Antieus gave sudden snap with his jaws, as
though he were going to swallow fifty of them at
once. You would have laughed to see the chill
dren dodging in and out among his hair, or
swinging from his beard 1t is impossible to
tell half of the funny tricks that they played
with their huge coniarade but do not know
that anything was more curious than when par
ty of boys were seen running races OH his fore
head, to try which of them could get first around
the circle Of his one great eye. 1t was another
favorite feat with them to march along the bridge
Of his nose, and jump down upon his upper lip
If the truth must be told, they were sometimes
as troublesome to the giant as a swarm of ants Or
mosquitoes especially as they had fondness for
mischief, and like to prick his skin with their
little swords and lances, to see how thick and
tough it was. Ant@us took it all kindly enough,
although, once in while, when he happened to
be sleepy, he would grumble out pecyish word
or two like the muttering Of tempest, and ask
them to have done with their nonsense. \ great
oftener, however, he watched their mcrimcnt and
ganbols until his huge, heavy, clumsy wits were
completely stirred up by them; and then would
he roar out such tremendous volume of immea-
surable laughter, that the whole nation of Pig
mics had to put their hands to their ears else it
would certainly have deafened them.
clio! ho. ho!" quoth the giant, shaking his
mountainous sides, fWhat funny thcng it is to
be little! If were not Antmus, should like
to be a Pygmy, just for the jokes sake"
The Pygmies had but but one thing to trouble
them in the world. They were constantly at war
with the Cranes, and had always been SO, ever
since the longliyed giant could remember. From
time to time very terrible battles had been fought
in which sometimes the little mon would gain the
victory, and sometimes the Cranes. According
to some historians, the Pygmies used to go to
the battle, mounted on the backs of goats and
rams but such animals as these must have been
far too big for Pygmics to ride upon; SO that, l
suppose, they rode on squirrel back, or rabbit
hogs, whose prickly quills would be very terrible
to the enemy. However this might be, and
whatever creatures the Pygmes rode upon, | dc
not doubt that they made formidable appear
ance, armed with sword and spear, and bow and
arrow, blowing their tiny trumpet, and shouting
their little war-cry. They never failed to ex
) hort one another to fight bravely, and rccollec
!. that the world had its eyes upon them; although
in simple truth, the only spectator was the gian
Antnus, with his ono great stupid eye, i'll thu
middle of his forehead.
4 When the two armies joined battle the Cranes
would rush forward, tapping their wings ant
stretching out their nccks, and would, perhaps
snatch up some of the pygmies crosewisc in the
bcaks. Whenever this happened, it was trul.
an awful spectacle to see those little men of Nigh
kicking and sprawling in the air, and at last dis
appearing down the cranes long, crooked throat
swallowed up alive. A hero, you know, mus
hold himself in readiness for any kind of fate
and doubtless the glory Of the thing was a con
ISOLATION to him even in the cranes gzzard. /
Antmus observed that the battle was going hare
against his little allies, he generally stcppct
laughing, and ran, with mile-long strides, to the
assistance, fourshing his club aloft and shoutin!
at the cranes, who quacked and croaked, and re
) treated as fast as they could. Then the Pygm,
army would march homeward in triumph, attri
buting the victory entirely to their own valor
and to the warlike skilland strategy of whomsoe
yer happened to be captain general; and for tc
dious while afterwards, nothing would be licart
lof but grand professions, and public banquets
ana brilliant liiuniin2uons, anu SHOWS OF wax
; work, with likenesses of the distinguished Off
GERS, as small as life.
In the abovc-described warfare, if a Pygmy
chanced TO pluck out cranes tail feather, i
proved a very great feather in his cap. Once ol
twice, if you will believe me, a little man wa:
made chief-ruer of the nation for no other meri
in the world than bringing home such feather.
LINES BY AN OLD F0GY.
j I'm thankful that the sun aud moon