Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-04-09
THE BLUNDERBUSS.
WARREN o.. April 2nd.
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ssTO SHOOT FOLLY"

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Oar Dear Friend the Chronicle We beg
thousand pardons for the stray shot that
hit you, u our last discharge. We did
not think you were within range, but the
pesky thing scatters so, 1t Is hard to tell
Just where every shot may strike. We
hope the wound is not deep, but merely
flesh wound.
The sights are not out of order. as
you imagine, nor did the piece go Off at
''halfcock, but the covey being large,
and the game so near, there may not have
been that accuracy of aim required by
the circumstances.
But really, Friend Chronicle, we can
not but smile, (now dno't consider us
laughing at your calamity" +" for we don't
mean to do that but we must smile at
your similitudes and insinuations. You
say "the Blunderbuss, though aimed at
snipe, buzzards, or vultureS, may wound
the innocent dove, unwittingly," and then
commence fluttering just as we have seen
doves flutter, not because they were really
hurt, but for fear they might be, and to
decoy the intruder away from their I'M
protected nests.
How doyou think a vulture would look,
acting the dove in such a case? Don't
YOU think he would show his talons, some
times? No insinuation.l
No fear of our perpendicular" Our
gun never "llicls," and when it does,
we dodge it.
But, to be serious, Mr.. Chronicle, you
step fairly on our ground. and with your
minnie rifle, fire a more telling shot, ltho'
it may be ''unwittingly, y at the same
game, than it is possible for the scatter
ing Rlunderbuss to do. {.
You say, ''the general l5ealh of commu-
nifty, the refined taste which 1reaLh and ed
ucation have dereIoped, influence the man
ners of all, imparting a desire to appear
cleanly and sceli-drcSsed." Now, the Blum
derbuss claimed nothing more than you
have here asserted, but, of course, took a
more blundering way of telling it. We
claimed that lCeLE-dreSsing was the fashion
in the churches, and those whose means
did not permit them to come up to the
fashion, did not attend church, as a gem
eTal thing, and thus, were excluded by
fashion.
''0nly that, and nothing more"
But the lecture you hare read us, seems
to encourage others, and the dear knows
where it will stop, now the thing is fairly
running. --..
Just see how our correspondents pitch
into us. 1t seems with editors, very much
as it is with dogs, give one a kick and get
him started, and all the little dogs in the
neighborhood will run, and bark, and
make great noise, but don't know why
nor what for. Don't understand US to be
calling any person dogs, for we amt.
There is an anonymous communication
which thewriter, emboldened by your ex-
ample, sends us. We hate poetry, we do.
For the BlaaderJussl
Dear Mr.. BlunderbuSs
You're mighty mean euss,
To try to raise fuss,
Tween OF customers and Us.
And get Us in n mus,
Like COngressmen 5r 'wuss,'
You may think by acting shrs-
You can fill your empty puss,
But you can't
And again:
lIr. Editor Il have been looking out
for you for a long time, intending TO give
you good tongue-lashing, but failing to
meet you, have concluded to write you
a piece of my mind, and I'll do it in few
words too. | think you are an imperti- |
nent puppy, or you would not talk about
ladies dresses as you have in your paper.
What business have you to meddle with !
such things, that don't concern you; tend
to your own business and let other folks /
alone. If see anything more of the |
kind. you'll not get off so easy next time. |
as sure rs my names.
JENNY FLASH.
p. $. Mind that. J. +.
o! dear, this thing of being an editor, |
is not so mighty fine after all.