Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-07-26
WHOLE NUMBER SS1.
P:ltclt Sermon on pixies Peak.
By DOW, JR.

Al the request of brother S. NJ Kerr
Phoenix Rancho, near Tango, will
meddle with the following;
"Wher dc hen scratch, dnr .ho spec to ind do hug'.
My HEARERs:--I am informed that
dark compleXoned preacher in Columbus.
Ohio, once took the nj ove for text, and
, proved from it that our first parents fell
| from an apple tree into n mud hole, which
caused their first born TO be as black az
your hat. | am afraid my colored CO.
IlaboreE.las made muci l1orc ont Of it than
| can, for, turn it over, set it upon end,
spreal IL out after all, this old rooster
don't find much to pick at.
In the first place, my brethren, will
PROFOUND pons conumdrum-"Why ae
men like watchesY Because you must
look inside of them for their good quail
ties, and Judge of them by their 'works'
Well, my brethren. the work of men
and women in geneial, consists, for the
most part, in scratching, and the prospect
Of a big bug is the incentive. You may
notice, my brethren, that whenever Il hen
makes Il scratch. she always gives pick
but whether she gets bug at every dip is
very uncertain. | imagine not. Never
the!cSs, "where the hen scratches, there
she expects to find Il bug"
Expectation is one thing you know, my
friends, and finding another You may
turn over many Il stone III this world, aud
find no. bug after all Phrenologically
speaking, the human head is Que vast
bump OF expectation, and nothing else.
There are various sorts Of bugs, gentle
men, in this buggy sphere. There are
big bugs. little bugs, tumble bugs, strad-
die bugs, bed bugs, hum bugs, and bug
bears. But you needn't scratch around
much to find any Of these; for they arc
everywhere thicker than shippers in II
three year old cheese.
TO find the bug you so earnestly desire,
requires dilligent scratching; and if by SO
doing YOU don't happen TO catch it, you
can comfort yourself with the reflection
that you put in your best licks, and it
ought to have been yours. If young
man takes girl around to see his shows.
feeds her with tit-bits, and buys her pretty
calicoes, her title TO a kiss is undisputed
-"for where a hen scratches, there she
expects to find a bug"
The bug thai you are all after, my
brethren, is the gold bug, but lack day,
how many of you scratch in vain! yet it
is found in manure heap as well rs in
auriferous p'aces. The farmer turns it up
with his plow, and the. Gardener with his
spade; and yet, thousands keep scratching
here and there without finding any bug.
A few months ago hundreds Of YOU fell
to scratching Frazor's River, expecting tor
find mighty big bug. Well, YOU
scratched, ard scratched-and scratched;
and what did you turn out at last?---a
monstrous humbug! You got frightened
and sclabbled (or home vast sigAt more
buggy than you went--''ior where the
hen scratches, there she expects to find a
bug"
Let me make another application Of my
text, my brethren. Beware of an oily
tongucd, sycophanted friend who is ever
ready to do you small favor-who pro-
fesses II willingness to serve you at all
times y who praises you as the fox did the
COW; for while he is "squizzng" himself
into your good graces, he has an eye on
your purse-yoursef forgetting for the
moment that "where the hen scratches,
there she expects to find bug"
My friends, how uneasy is the immor-
tal mind in It's pent up prison Of ciay?-
How it seems to eXult in its freedom
while winging its way to yon azure field of
light and gIoiy, or wandering among the
green old bowers Of the u.,t, while none
but itsel' is permitted To roam.
What then must BE- lis delight, when
released from its thrqldom of flesh, and no -
longer dependent on bread, beef and poa
toes.
The day will come when liberty, such
IS mortals have never yet known, viii be
Jlissfully realized in the eternal sphere,
here "where the hen scratches, there she
expects to find bug" So mote it be.