Nebraska advertiser., 1863-01-03

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it, but could not help II. Why, Aboas
Town need not be afraid of his cousin.
The communication Teainds me Of a
story of real life, which l wish to relate
to your readers, MI. Editor it is as fol-
lows; Once upon a time, thsred lived four
Black Birds of very .ilD dispositions
They were jealous they were cowardly,
they were ignorant. They thought Of
settling and building their nests some
where; they looked around with their
birds eyes, lowering over the world
They saw France, England, Scotland
Germany, Prussia, Russia, America, etc,
they asked of the different countries
a permit, to build their nests there, but
everywhere the answer was: No! no
unless you show your qualifications, as
being birds of honor and of probity, of
knowledge and competency for the bust
ness you wish to engage into. 1 Those
black birds, knowing and feeling they
had not the qualifications required Of
them, few farther and farther away
Finally they reached a town, in the far
west, called Brownville. There, they
alighted they built their nests withou;
ceremony and without opposition on the
mart of the good citizens un6er the caves
of every house in the place. No one in.
CURED about their qualifications and they
stuck there with great delight, and even
the inhabitants considered them to
be quite fine fellows. They grew proud
and naughty, singing merrlly loud and
fine songs, indeed. 1t ca me to pass.
however, that, in the course of human
events, a certain other bird arrived at
that place En-! they opered their eyes
as wide as owls at night they looked
at him (; they found out he wanted to
settle there, too. They looked again
and again, but they did not like him.
He was FnOt ignorant, consequently, he
was not cowardly nor Jealous. What he
did and said, he did and said openly,
publicly; he was qualified and could build
his nest wherever he pleased without
fear of being prevented to do so for want
of knowledge and probity.
The black birds, of evil dispositions,
changed their joyful tunes ahc sang out
the songs of the mocking-bird. They
tried to make it appear that he was what
they were and even less but they did
not sing openly, boldly and publicly; they
would sing only in the dark they
would whisper under the caves of every
roof and TO the ears of every person -
"He is a bad bird have nothing toldo
with him! he'll hurt you Drive him
away away with him !" The lone bird
found it out and heard it. He fearlessly
and boldly came out against them and
made them known such as they we're
He proved their ~wickedness, and their
imposition upon the people, in revealing
their hidden mechinationsCtheir igno-
rance, their ilI-disp o%sitions, both by the
falsehoods they sang out and the deeds
they performed. r .I3aT "is,
After this, some Of the citizens did
dare to ask the Black Birds, Gent.
Black Birds what can you say about the
Lone Birds lay A Nothing. sir,
nothing at all.n Then, whatca can you do ?
A. o"Well," pretty chiriped one of them,
II have learned the blacksmith trade a
few years ago, and now, I think, I can do
more than that; Lean buy drugs at Let's
and administer them, too" Another one
wa rbled out : "Well! Gents, / was once
a clerk in a drug store, ard now, can't I
sing out the praises of the Medical sci
ence and distribute drugs, too f" The
third answered with some. grufness :
I"Don't you think that l once kept an
apothecary shop? Who can, better than
1, apportion to mankind the benefits Of
medical stuffs?" The fourth, like a
grimalkin said that he hhad learned sew
eral trades and can follow the one be
p~leases: he did not care which, and, like
the others, did not pretend to be a ply
stefan, anyhow. He did not Care what
he followed"
One of them constantly sang OUT
"Diphtheria Diphtheria Diphtheria !"
Another: "Liver-diseases Liver-dis-
eases ! Liver diseases, only p The third
mo cure for NeuraIgy for Neuralgy
for Neuralgy! For every thing else,
Morphine /! Morphine! MOrFnine!''-
The fourth and the oldest: mo Ovarian
Tumor has ever been cured No Ovarian
Tumor can be cured f" The Lone Bird
says it is all false
There they were, and thus they sang.
when I left and l believe they are still
there. I have not heard of them for a.
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