Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-12-07
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The reader viii be amused IN spite Of himself at
the ingenious quaintness and simpleit Of the fol
lowing fiction 50 ridiculous and at the same time so
web told
From the KnickcrbockeT Magazine.
3 IT must have been sheer envy on the part of Mr..
Conklin Neppins that excluded the following stir
ring .pome from the columns of !" The Qnog litery
Gem We take early occasion to do justice to
the talents of the anthor K. n. Pepper, Esq, who
writes us that he has chose the hydraulic measure
because, next to the hrdmeters he considers 1.-THE
most effectual !"
"suBJEck: ALEGAITER wATER-
TRuMrE THE wArEE-ssAIk: DErn OF TIE AlE-
CATER :"
eeThere is an Hand on a ereFing,
Which into Gautilnaly warm country
Lying the Tropicks: covered with sand
Here and there symptunl of q w illow,
hanging OF its unlberagIous Inns q branches
This ,hI was the Home of the now silent Alegaitcr,
W hen not in his other element contine d.
Hear he would set upon his egs sleep y.-,.-:
Wi1hl ey observant of his and other passing
Objecks: a while kept going
Ferecs of danger was the hapy Alegater!
Wake. that dreme of Bills for him.
l morning the arose with unusoOalsspcnder,
Which also did our Aegaiic coming from the water
To the fountain-head which tina originy sprung.
But having had nothing TO eat for some tune he
Was SLEEPY and gapd, in short time, widely.
Unloading soon welth of peri-Whe teth,
Because of there mutooal splender and warmth.
The Evil Our (Which sedj was now come;
Of the large Specie, which soon appeared
Into the h0risou, near the bank where repose'd
Calmly i'll slope the Alegaitcr before spoken Of
About 10 fool was his Length mot the 'gaiter)
And he aperiently a weil-proporoncd Snaik.
When he was all ashore he gared upon
The Hand with APPROVAL but
'Nstonished with the lost to wonder from Was)
(For jest then he began for to see the Alegliter)
Being material Enemy of hiSn, he worked himself
Into i fury, also a nj position.
Before the Alcgaiter well could ope
His eys (n other words pirceve as danger)
The Snaik had envelloped his body just ~
Times with fOadS VOooIn and vast from MiltOn)
And had tore off several Seals in the confusion,
Besides sques,ng him awully onto his stomic.
just then, by fortunate turn in his Affairs,
He ceaZed into his mouth the Circles tale
Of the unIchecting water-Snaik! Groan desperate,
He, finding that hIs tale fast squesed
Terrible While they roaied all over The Hand
1t was a welI-conduckted Affair: no noise
Disturbed the harmony of the Scen ec>ept
Onc't when Willow SNAPPED into by roaling.
Each of the combaence hadn't amint for hGlering,
So the confck materially tremendous!
But by crate fource the tale bit complete
Ivy off: but the cggZertiou was too much
For his delicate CONSTRUCTION he felt compression
Onto his chest, and generally his body:
When he ecspres I'd his breathing, ii with CRATE
Difficulty that he felt inspir'd again Onct
Of coarse this State must suffer L revUlootion.
So the Alega;tcr give but l vel, and egspired.
The wateI-Snaik realed hsself of, surYayd,
RUr say 10 mints, the condition of
His 70; then wondering what made his tale hurt
He sloiy went off for to cuol.'