Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1869-11-06
THE MAN, THE BATS AND THE
OWL.
BY c T HUGE--oH

Der wail-grievous and incessant chat
tefing, irradiated by a noisome odor.-
Mice" be fancied. impossible mice
that chartered and stank !
The man slept. 4 column Of fresh ad
vertisements invaded lis brain. Coloss-
al newspaper dream Of the wretched.-
He. was happy, In the midwatch Of the
night there was a flap upon bis pillow.
Ominous flap
Caused by az infant bat-bat classed
by Cuvier among the mammals. Too
feeble to Fly, it bad fallen and tapped.
The nan fed. Weakness of Humaui.
ty surprised by The Unseen but not In.
~odorous-the Giant escaping from the
Pigmy-Banks retreatiDg before Stone.
wall Jackson.
Another night and another bat, more
bats. The man arose and slew them
three several bats, slain by the man with
8 long handled broom, which cost 80
sous, 6 confines at EckIof's. Cheap en-.
gineery Of war-1ntellect armed inex-
pensively but o~mhipoteut in the presence
Of the Winged Evil.
: Still the ohattering continued.
The man had a cup.
The cup WAS of tin.
Near this cup a bucket OF water.
Allies ! The man smiled. Elevation
of the oppressed Soul. evinced by the
At the junction of the floor with the
w~ash-board, behold an aperture, %crevice
or crack-in a word. a sIit-effect of liz
neous contraction in time, sap expelled.
the woody fibre closing in, Nature abhor-
ing a vacuum.
Fatal slit |
The man, the cup, the bucket, the wa
ter-fortunate coadjacency of the nipple
ments and material Of strite-the Broom
discarded, the Cup 10 the ascendant, til
umph of water over Wood, and Mar su-
preme in his night-shirt oveF all. Noah
about to.inaugurate the Flood |
Deluded bats, ignorant Of the immin-
cot Delage, chattering and f~easting like
the antique sinners of Central Asia.
A splash-sudden, sharp, vengefal
abundant, nexorable-accompanied by a
sardonic chuckle from the man.
Whiz-z-z II
Bonleversement extreme The besiee
ed become the assaiiants. Parma cuts
The dikes, but the Batavians make a sally.
The broom resumed. The Individual
the Maltitude-the Man immersed
IN a cloud of bats, plying his bosom dcs-
perately in the malodorus vortex of a
whirlpool of ~exasper1ied night BIRDS
Combat terrific. Valor in a cotton gar
ment lunging agonizedly with a long
handled broom into a torrent Of Leather
Futile cottage ! Wasted pluck
Inopportune grit What's a broom to
a bushel of bats? A creese against a
Cataract kLitting-needle agains. Nj.
Dsnoument disgraceful. CATASTROPHE
most sad. Conclusion verging of the
The man evanishes--the Broom
prone upon the foor--the Bats occu.
py the Geld of battle. 10 Tlrtumphc :
AFFECT sbasemeut of humanity, parall-
eled only by the exaltation of brutality.
Admirable compensation of Nature
shocking flight and descent of Intelli. |
gence balanced and atoned for by a cor
responding ascent and poise Of instinct
in man counterpoised by stasis
the Vespertilionidae. Defeat of the
Success of the Things. Equality
indicated, Liberty achieved, Fraternity
2f forces in perspective, Behold the {
of Matter &
Days pass. The man, detected, avoids
lis room. no longer a room, but a Castle c
# the Skin winged, Donion of the Der.
naptera. But the water spIasbed madly c
n the midnight battle, does its work.c
,enetrates the nest and dislodges the :
5ats Process of Displacemeuts of the
'harmaceutists brought unintentionaIly
nto play, with glorious result. i,
The Man returns. He listens, he shifts, {
e fumbles with a small stick. No noise. r
o odor, no anything--nothing. In {.
nense satisfaction, huge qualification I :
normous and unbounded exultation of I
be Man. '
Alas |! v
How ieeting The joys of life. o
Its triumpbs how ilIusory. q
The man reioices. =
Vanity of vanities. T
Grin of M. Bonaparte 10 the morning d
{ Waterloo, chuckle of Wiugfeld Scott, a
/ Washington, Jolly 81, 1861, 70 NJ. ic
vanescent cacchinnation of Jubal Early
Cedar Creek. n
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