Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1866-12-05

source, no one was ever so pOlilS " luS
in the hole state of my existence, Yet
no woman could have-expressed the brim-
ming serenity Of sweet sensations SO hap
PLY, for any woman who had tried to ex-
press it all would have allowed a shyness
or consciousness to mingle with it that
would have destroyed all the exquisite
singleness of the loveress's 5 majestic
pleasure
The naivete Of Marjorie humor Is at
least second amongst her fascinations.-.
There is The charm in it of a child's
fresh thought boldly placed in juxtapo-
sition with the dusty old worlds used-up
ideas, and quite conscious of the contrast.
She had been taught to believe in the
digil, and writes pretty freely about
him; but he has only three positive at
tributes to her playful imagination he
invented medince, especially siDa tea
and the multiplication table, with both
of Which happy conceptions he did not
cease to torment even her; while he held
in reserve the greatest terror of all,
with which in old times he had nearly
worn out the piety Of job, boils.' I
am very glad, she says, that Satan'has
not given ne boils aud many other mis-
fortunes In the holy Bible these words
are written that the Devil goes like a
roaring lyon in search Of his pray but
the lord lets US escape from him but we
do not strive with this awful Spirit
today pronounced a word which should
never cnme out OF Iady's lips it was
that called John a Impudent B-h. 1
will tell you what think made me in so
bad humor was, got or 2 cups Of
that bad, bad sina tea to-day She is
evidently not quite sure whether Job
would have succeeded in resisting Satan
if his boils had been complicated by
multiplcation-table aud sina tea, for
she says, coniessiug how i'll she had be-
baved, 1t was the very same devil that
Job that tempted me l am sure
but he resisted Satan though he had boils
and many other misfortunes which I |
have escaped am now going to tell
you the horrible aud wretched plaege
that my multiplication gives me you can't
conceive it, the most deviiish thing is s |
times 8 uud I times it is what nature
itself can't endure. Marjorie probably |
held that Satan had iBterposed a prefer
natural intellectual difficulty in the Sand .
The I lines OF The multiplication-t n-tubie |
fJr the special trial of chidren's tempers,
and with perfectly correct intellectual in
stiuct, as well as true humor, she did |
pitch on the mostGit:cult efforts OF mem
3ry which the decimal system requires Of
For ourselves, We always held { times
the p,cli.arIy 'deyi.i,h point which
nature i,,ciI can't endure thought al
Najorie's age We could certainly never
have expressed the feeling 50 eloquent
y. Indeed, the child had, no doubt, a
keen sense Of humoT in attibuting
lines TO the agency of the same devil
gho invented boils. She thought the
uultipicaijon-tubIe, as a whole, a sort Of
eruption Of demoniac origin, h
wen though, Ike the boils, it might be
urned to some good purpose to be re-
,eulcd hereafter But Marjorie's high
~ lGdt o. tbulbI II tLt tfidiu Ou tit
hree turkeys destroyed by rats, aud the
ceilings Of their bereaved parent. The
enderness and solicitude with which she :
irst delineates the aesolate parents feel {
ugs, and then the extraordinary evidence
:hich she suddenly gives of the birds
atience and resignation, forms an ex- a
uisite combination Of childish nonsense e
18th social ircny. Only child who had t
clear sense Of the fun in supposing that
aths are a sign Of prof0undEgrief conld,
ven when solicited BY promising rhyme,
ave ventured to praise the turkey hen n
IT not swearing at her loss
Three turkeys fafr their last have breathed, II
And now this world for ever leaved, Il
Their fathers and their mothers, too;
VIII sigh and weep as well as you,
Mourning for their offspring fair, o.
Whom they did nurse with tender care; n
Indeed, the rats their bones have cTanch'd, l
Into eternity are they launch'd; a.
Their graceful forms and pretty eyes
Their fellow fowls did not despise, el
A direlul death indeed they had,
That would put any parent mad,-
But'she was more than usual calm,
She did not give q single dam }" re