The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1853-08-24

day, and aint told he is welcome! Oh!
of course not! Then he has been a grea,
traveller, havin' onct made trip to jana.
ca, and has wonderful stories to tell that
beats British officers tiger hunts all to
rags. The coooanuts were so big there
that he was obliged to wear an iron skillet
on his pate for fear they might fall from
the trees and split it open; and one day
the monkeys caught him asleep, slipt off the
pot, and stole it to cook their victuals in.
True as rates, masters, and not word OF
regraggeration in il, do assure you.
"That was the boy to find welcome.
The youngsters actilly cried when he went
away, gave him handful Of cents, and
walked two miles on the road with him to
hear his stories Of sharks and whales
| "There is another advantage Of this
temper, that even niggers don't know; you
can larn as you travel. larned more
from talk in London than ever did in
books, in my life, and noted it better. For
example-as they say in cypherin books
sit alongside Of learned man at some
grand dinner; now learned men in gen
eral way are stupid as owls. they keep a
devil Of thinkin', but they don't talk.
So stirs up old Hisroglyphio with long
pole; for it's after lights is lit, and it's time
for owls to wake up and gaze.
i have been tryin' TO read that ere book
on Ninsvsh,' said [.
'Oh!' said he, what do you think of ii?'
1t wants the pickaxe and crowbar,
said |. 6e
'Pickaxe and crowbarl' said he, for that
made him turn half round, and open his
eyes and stare.
| Only surprise man, Squire, and he
can't help listenin'.'
Il call it hard case,' said I. The au-
thor has spent mortal long time in dig
GIN up the curiosities that have been un-
der ground Lord knows how many GEN.
turies. and now he has gone right of, and
buried them all again in book, as hard
to get into as the old vaults
Exactly said he; you have just hit
livery we'll expressed, and very graphi-
cally-that is the principal defect in the
book
'P'rhaps, Sir said I, you would be
kind enough to sumtotalise for me The
| amount Of his discoveries in few words
too, for wont't bore you,' said 1.
We'll. in ten minutes you have the
! whole; and if you want an explanation,
he is just the boy to give it. lbs just the
same now in log hut. The settler. poor,
lonely. honest, simple critter hahn, no book
things you amt, that's . fact. never me,
man yet that couldn't give me wrinkle,
| from captain Of one Of our men-of- wa r
in the Mediterranean, that heard tell
Lady b the way to peel onions with
out tinglin' her eyes. was to hold pin be-
tween her teeth, down to Sinful Joy, the
nigger at the three mile plains, who gave
me the wonderful cure for jaundics boast
so much Of .ba
AT every turn there is somethin' to oh.
serve and remember, which, old though il
be, is new to you-some impliment, some
machine, some strange culture of curious
plants, and things put to use you never
dreamed of, is turnin' up all the time. Il
was in Persia larned the art Of s,upifyin'
| fish, and maxim them float on the surface
without hurtin' them for food; and the firsl
chance | get will try it in the mackere
fishery. II was at q Quaker'sin Genessee
first met with the little windmill for sawin
| my s6re-wood have to Slickville, and in
South America larned to pysen an arrow
that killed deer Instantly without affectin
the venison, and in France the way to
hatch fsh.spawn, and on the Rhine the
wonder, But simple and cheap plan Of the
Romans, Of buildin' houses Of loan supe.
| rior to bricks. TWAS by travlin' picked
up that valuable collection of receipts
showed you once. -
But the greatest advantage Of all Of this
itineration is, you can look back with
pleasure on travel. You forget the little
ups, and downs, and CROSSES and losses
and bumps and thumps, and brambles and
scrambles by the way; but memory has il
all sketched ont in landscapes like, rail
handsome for you, that imagin alton has
helped to put in giltframes. And that the
forest in them paintins contain rocks, un-
derbrush, and boggy spots, where you
slumped about, broke down. or lost your
way, you see nothin' in ths background
but mass Of wavin' wood, or in the fore.
ground but green fields, windin' roads,
and smooth rivers. Time has mellowed
the picture.'
yes, can and do oftenstop short, turn
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my hands, and look back at my travels
over this universal earth with pleasure, but
if it was all barren, all dark, all hardship,
and all privation, as some grumblin fools
find it, what in natur' would life be? Why,
il wouldn't be endurable; it would give
pain and not pleasure. You'd be afraid
to look back, because it would awaken on.
pleasant reflections, and you'd be skeer'd
to look forred; for if the world don't please
you when young. it can't, in the natur' Of
things, when you are old, that's fact.
That's my philosophy, at least, and SO
black Johns also. !.
my plan is this. / seek the sunny side
of life al,cays unless the weather is too hot,
and then 60 to the shade. The changes
in the temperament make me enjoy both. .
sAnd now, havin' written this epistle,
shall turn around TO the fire. light my cigar,
put my feet up on the mantle-pieoe. and
enjoy q smoke, and think Of old times
l. Sweetness Spread Out"
We believe that there exists q proverb
Ito the effect; that fool and drunken