Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-09-27
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
ANECDorE OF Two PARRoTs.-A curl
GUS old story is told in Captain Browns
book, without any clue 10 its date its lu
dicrous tendency being the temptation 10
copy it here. A tradesman, who had
shop in the Old Bailey, opposite the pris.
on, kept two parrots. agreen and grey.
The green parrot was taught to speak
when there was knock at the street
door; the grey whenever the bell rang
but they only knew two short phrases OF
English. The house in which they lived
had an old fashioned projecting. front so
that the first floor could not be seen from
the pavement on the side of the way ,
and, on one occasion, they were left out
side the window by themselves. when
some one Knocked at the street door.
Who's there p said the green par
rot.
The man with the leather was the re-
ply TO which the bird answered.
oh oh !
The door not being opened, the stran-
ger knocked a second time.
who's there p said green poll.
WHO'S therc?' exclaimed the man,
why don't you come DOWN.
oh oh T. repeated The parrot.
This so cnraged the stranger, that he
rang the bell furiously.
60 to the gate said a new voice,
which belonged to the grey parrot.
To the gate 2 repeated the man, who
saw no such entrance and thought the SER
wants were bantering him
What gate p he asked stepping back to
view the premises.
New gate, responded the grey. just as
the angry applicant discovered who had
been answering his summons.
WoHtERrCL PREEsERvATIoN.--A wri-
ter in The Boston Recorder, as an iIlustra
ton o! Providrntial care. relates the fol-
lowing marvellous incident and vouches
for il rs authcniic:
Elias Boudiuot, founder Of the Amcri-
can Bible Society, was returning in his
chai~e TO his home late in a dark night
from court he had been tending many
days. lie did not know that recent fresh
ct had carried away all the pIanks from
the long bridge that lay in his accustomed
path. therefore he drove right on, as
though there was a bridge there, and
reached home safely. His friends inquir-
ed by what road he came. 1.-The usual
road he replied. "Impossib!e." said
they, "there are no planKs on the bridge, -
He persisted. and they. trembling for his
veracity or his sanity, eagerly went with
him next morning carly to survey
When arrived they found the very foot
prints of his horse on GENITAL sleeper
There was no more TO be said; sanity and
veracity were both safe. Some power
had presided over the instinct Of that horse
had ordained the correspondence Of those
wheels with the slecpers over which they
passed, and kept the man in ignorance o.
his danger. Was that power fate or
chance?
THE CELESTIAL SrATE--ON Rickets
w,t$ man OF labor, and had little or nc
time lO devote to speculation as to the
future lie was withaI, rather uncouth
i'll the use Of language.
One day while n5ayed in stopping up
hog holes about his place he WAS ap
preached by coIporteur, aud presented
with IL tract.
What's this all abyut?' demanded
Rickets
That, sir is book describing the ce-
lestial state was the reply,
Celestial State said Ricketts,, where
the dcuc; is that?'
My worthy friend. l fear that you
have not
We'll never mind, interrupted Rick
cts. i don't want to hear about any bet
ter State than old Pennsylvania. in
tend to live and die right here ii car
only keep them darned hogs out