Litchfield enquirer., 1864-07-28
One Fool makes Many.

We were recently passing along one of our town roads which runs between hill. pasture on one side and s~ampy pasture on the other, when the following scene was enacted
 A fat, burly bull calf, about three months old, was enjoying the fat of the land on the hill top. He was tied, indeed, by rope but tte rope was long one and was fastened to the trunk of an urlb:ageous apple-tree, giving him full swing under the shade, with plenty to eat and no family cares on his mind. It would be difficult to imagine a calf better off, But the fool was not satisfied. He could not be con- tent and mind his own business. He must needs begin to ba a-h ! and, as everybody knows, the bal of a calf, like the tsAiu of John Chinaman means about twenty different things, which COWS. calves and Chinamen understand, but which are not intelligible to the uninitiat- ed.
 Of course we, being uninitiated in calflom, cannot state precisely what the bull calf meant but we know that seven or eight noliensive, quiet COWS were demurely and patiently grazing in the field on the opposite of the road when the fool commenced his bleating, and that therefore, one and another of the COWS began to prick up ears, tails and hind legs each fancy ing that the busbrat (of whose existence they were all, till then, unoonscious) was hers, each responding in the various articulatons of mo- nh (which, again, is akin to Jah and tshin) each capering with heads down and legs and tails up, and each making for supposed prac- ticable breach in the stone fence that enclosed them. Such another hubbub was never before heard, excepting when some other fcol of calf took it into his head, in the manner, to make fools of drove of COWS and all for nothing, for this very calf, as we afterward asoertained was brought here from an adjoining county and had neither relationship nor acquaintance ship with one of these eame tnroarious COWS. In other words, one fool makes many.
 We are frequently reminded of this incident and this aphorsm when some of the exquisite touches of modern refinement come up iu social colloguy For example.
 Corporal so and so in the retreat from Bull Run was wounded in tue linab. A1r. Spriggins, while walking across the street, fell and broke his lin,b Mrs. Fast has the rheumatism in her limb, and her sister bruised her right limb in stepping from carriage.
 Now, 6ah, n,oo, and tshia have this obvious advantage over lins6; that whereas they, re. spectively. mean many things, limb means but one thing-althoug indeed, one part of it is a calf: but we humbly and respectfully suggest that the ladies and gentlemen of the present day, who, in our little anecdote, one represent ed by the seven COWS, do not allow themselves to be thrown into a scarlet fever of refinement by great bull. on the hill, but do on the contrary, what good sense and real refnemen prompt, namely, call hand hand, a foot ( foot, and leg leg. The prevailing custom of substituting "limb" for leg is just one O those Hibernicisms that creates the very evi it seeks to avoid: the affected effort to be su- perlatively delicate is, in reality, the yer, extreme of indelicacy.
 Cannot people of common sense see trutl
 80 palpable as this?