Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-10
VOLUME X. NO. II.

Three Embarrassment saws Hazlett, "hap
penng TO meet in Lincoln's Inn Fieds.laughed at
each other till they came near dying" Tncifes,
The sense Of the ridiculous is worn off by con-
slant attriiinn. Let big, fat man. slip npon the
ice, and you may be sure that those bystanders
who laugh at him are strangers, because the
citizen has become accustoped to such frequent
occurring sights.
When the swine had the freedom of the city,
they used to be The occasion of quite as much
fun as disgust. They we're always performing
the most unexpected and the lost obstinate feats
and exploits on Broadway A porty female was
sailing slowly along Broadway in all the con-
scious dignity Of city life dressed out with her
silks and salins, her ribbons and laces, her white
kid gloves,&c and looking like representative
Of Constan'inople, Gudeing from her Sublime
Portc) when all Of a sudden she found herself
sitting upon the back Of a fine large porker. who
came hurrying round the corner of street and
so firmly was she seated there, that she was
treated to gratuious ride of whole block be-
fore being thrown from her perious position
Laugher) Whether injured or no, by her fall,
could she be pitied by the bysta anders? No;
the sense of the ridiculous overruled all feelings
Of pity or GONNA sinn.
C'esus is SAID to have laughed to death at
seeing donkey eat thisIes
PltIable sights, also not unfrcqnently suggest
the ridiculous. Thus il Is the depth of sadness
10 behold a fellow being drunk. and rolling in
the gutter. But how ridiculous, when, on going
up to him, and asking hn how he got there, he
repies:- made an appointment to meet a
man here -
Thus, how absurd appear. through the medi.
un OF the Il lcnlons al the numberess little
nesses of life. Ostentllion itself. is ridiculoua
1t wears gold rings and saIns, and brocades
and laces. and diamond breast pms (which are
suspected to ,e p,st"E IT has box al the opera,
to which it goes everye nigh ('hnnyh bored by
the mlIlc); it carries rare bonqrpt, ra'her big,
which II presents 10 lady in the next box. 1t
has n lurynette. which it levels on the alre,dy
discovered st'rs, or searches the house for othet
lnlnnare-. 1t always gops to church Sundays,
rain or sli 'e, and re Ids prayers aloud, AID puts
a half eagle Into the plate with loud ring. But
while osientalinn thus lives wrapt up in the man.
to of its own self,hness, it is always absurd.
People laugh at it.
Much of The rdculnus may be seen in vari-
| ia. e IN nab nj of the
cricsms in the reviews, where the writer de-
sires TO display his own taeEts rather than give
ali idea of the work upon which he is writing
making the author mere hook from which 10 sus
pend his own corrusca'ions. That criticism is
very absurd in which the critic Judges hls author
by his own standard of though or Style.
The lecturer also spoke of man with whom
he was acGnalnle VIII, thought himself poet,
necause his ry,nrs were published IN the weekly
papers occa,i ,lIv. Aud he also thought nsn-
self very fashionable man, because he went to
the opera. dressed in the height Of fashim, and
visited Saratoga once a year. Nevertheless
this very man the laughing stock OF all who
knew him. The lecturer had also heard of a
Young lady who regarded herself as one OF the
ready-to be.died FIR kind -one who considered
herself as the punk of perfection, and the leader
Of fashion, WIN was. i" reality, so extremely un-
attractive as to be- Killed By her o,on ser. To all
such mistaken mnrtals he would recommend the
, lines of Bur,s -
'Ol,. wad soma power the gfe gi'e them
| To see tIrms Ives others see them
'Twad frae many blnnder Tree them,
And tIUl slI notion! ~