Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-03-03

|ication. This address is curiosity, and
it being the first ever delivered upon that
subject, he had
.sThe world before him where to choose,
And Providence his guide"
without any danger Of Plagiarism. lie
culls facts and fancies, from Natural His
tory in general and Henology in particu-
lar, aud presents them with all the graces
of Oratory nor do theology, history, clas-
steal literature, or poetry escape without
contribution to the feast of chicken-pie.
1t way be wondered how even TAadARr
could distil poetry from the plebeian race
of stratchers of the dunghill. The Eagle
and other birds of prey-;he Dove, and all
useless or ornamental birds and songsters
in general-have had their poet-laureats ::
but what goose-quill ever invoked aid from
the poetic nine to rehearse in fair flowing
verse the merits of the humble and indus
trious labor-saving and food.furnishing
plodders of the barnyard? Who ever
breathed requiem over the remains of a
colony of chickens, smitten by pestilence-
who? Echo apswers-''TAGaART !" The
occasion-and the effort-we quote from
his own lips:
81 would have discoursed somewhat of
the management of Poultry, but take it,
a Doctor who is unable to keep his own
family we'll, has no RIG ght to prescribe for
others. | attended our last State FAIR with
as fine lot of birds as one ordinary man
ever owned. There they contracted most
fatal and incompreheusible disease, which
has left NE but sorrowful remnant-less
than 40 from more than 200. Like the
Jewish mother, for season, | would moi
be comforted But He who tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb, tempers also the
sorrows of bereaved hen granny, and
thanks to the elasticity of human nature
and a good constitution, l may now
exclaim, with the hunchback regicide
Richards himself again" But knowing
neither the cause nor the cure of thi.
most foul malady, l have not the face ts
lecture you on management.
"The Statement of the NestfuN.
They grew in beauty, side by side,
They filled one nest with feas:
Their lots are scattered far and wide,
By mountains, streams and seas.
The same fond .'old cluck" spread at night
Ger each half-feaihered brow,
She kept each precious chick in sight
Where are those chickens now
One foolish pullet made her nest,
And her first egg hath laid,
Upon Paddy's tatered vest,
"Fernens,' his .pratee' spade.
The Queen, the Royal Queen, hath one,
She lays where corn lies deep,
/ She is the loved Of vic-and none
/ But Vic her eggs shall keep.
One roos,s where southern vines are dressed
u Upon a southern plain;
He flaps his wings from of his breast,
And flaps them on again.
And one poor stag, New England showers
! Have stricken with the "Roup;
lie pined and died, like frosted flowers,
/ In Gile,'s chicken-coop.
And thus they parted-they who scratched
( Hard by the same pig-pen; :,
! (What a pow'r of bugs and worms they catched!
Alas, what's n0,D 10 then?
In view of this cruel separation, tbs pity the
were ever hatched
BY that old speckled hen.
.F2.as as attributed to chickens, is evident
a poetical fcence!"
(Any who conceit they detect any sim
ilari.y between the foregoing and Mrs
HEMANs' lines on the "Graves OF
Household" will please note it as an add
tional section in the long chapter Of tn
"coincidenccs of Genius"
We'll, Shanghai-ism, like the spirit
rappings, ,rM have its day; but if it d
not prove Morus- Multicaulis-in-F Feathers
We shall confess that we are somewha
mistaken in our present impressions.