The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-12-09
The Cecil Wing.
ELKTON, DECEMBER 8, 1868.
The " CliIlle.o

mind, devotes another CHAPTER e rhc
- Ciiqne;' in its last weeks issue. The
Clique grows more unsuhS.antial and
mythical the more it is discussed by that or
gam That " Clique ':lfljcars even less I'M
substantial than tie Ghost in Hamlet for
after repeated trials The Democ,m has failed
to make the injured public 9 see it,
| We had one important fact brought to our
knowledge last week in connection with the
history of the "Clique.'' 1t appears by that
| shetland The Democrat won't le-that
the Clique has been holding high revcl in
| The Wing oflice-in fact managing every
thing there with romantic impunity. This
announcement quite alarmed us, coming, as
it did, so unexpectedly upon us, and from
so intalible sourcc-for all know. by this
| time, that The Democrat won't lie. We
made strict inquiry of the printers whether
| they had discovered anything unusual about
| the Office, and instituted search, but no
| traces were found of the animal; the furn-
ture and fixtures of the office were all found
in their places, and everything in the same
order it was placed by the workmcn. We
have had u watch kept up in the Office since
this startling fact has been announced, but
! nothing unusual has, as yet, been discovered
The creature u:ust either be very dimnutive.
| or unsubstanial like the "bascless fabric
Of a dream" for instance.
We are determined, however, to make
N..t, l. Al
"What Is 1t ?-and have ordered number
of mousetraps to be kept set about the prem
ises. If we are successful in capturing the
varment," we propose to place it on cxhi-
bition with that other mysterious animal
whose tracks have appeared in The Democrat
on several occasions recently.
This latter animal is not so great natural
curiosity as the one according to The Demo-
crat) that haunts Tile Wing office, and is
domiciled-whcn at home-in the subter-
ranean caverns under the Court House.
The footprints which have appeared in The
Democrat every Saturday morning, for sew
aral weeks past, have been inspected by q
naturalist, who pronounces them to be made
by an ass. This discovery may be clue to
the " Clique . mystery if we adopt the theory
that some hold in regard to the matter, which
is that the " Clique" Is all gas.
Now, gas being an invisible and exceed
lngly volatile substance, escapes the eye and
is distinguished rAost readily by the olfac-
tory organs-for some such substance, es.
a.
exist as The Democrat avows it, and that
organ won't lie, as The JHy has often
proved.
But to pursue the gas theory We read in
Job that the asses snuffed up the East wind.
Now it is within the bounds of probability
that this animal, whose tracks have been
discovered in The Democrat, being of the
same species of the cattle of Uz-and that
class is noted for It's inviolability to change
may have been exercising his lungs in the
same kind of pastime, that is snuffing up
the East wind" and as the gas-house is in
an eastcrly direction from THE Democrat
office, this animal, which has been taking
such liberties with the columns of that paper
recently, may have snufied the tainted air
and straightway enchanted the proprietors
Of The Democrat with this gassy creation of
the 'Cliquc.'
This is decidedly the most probable theory
for the Clique" that we have met with,
and in lieu of the mousctraps failing to
"catch " the varmcnt" that is reported
to infest The Wing office, we will adopt this
theory as the only solution of the 9 Clique"
mystery, and cndeavor to protect our prem
Uses against lntruslc,s from this ghostly Wis
itor, the q Clique" by mailing horseshoe
over The Wing Office door. This charm has
never been known to fail against witchcraft
and all such Vaccinations of the Evil One
But we still have faith in the mousetraps
for our bumps of the marvellous are not very
largely developed, belief in the superna
tural not eXerting a very strong influence
over us, and if we are so successful as to
secure this rara ariS, we propose to have it
Gagged along with that other i'll, Favored spe
cimen of the animal kingdom, whose foot
prints have been discovered in The Demo
crat, and placed on exhibition, as kind of
offset to Barnum's wonderful Happy Family,
described in the last issue of The Democrat
One of the editors of that organ can travel
with this rare show, while the other stays
at home to fire up the machine and keep it
in operation, grinding food for the Copper
heads of Cecil. This would be rare spec
fnr n IN for cipry &C h,
Democrat. With one editor to puff the
show through The Democrat, and the other
to exhibit the g hariiinals," they might soon
rival Artemus Ward. If our mousetraps
catch this " Clique" the show speculation
will be better than an oil well to The Demo
crat, which will be unusually refreshing after
the shocking run of bad luck it has had in
politics.