The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-18
TWO "COMPOSITTONS."
BY WALKER THE YOUNGER.
Chap. I-On Endustry.
etc.


With what singular persistency OF purpose
does that dimnutive and laborious creature. the
Bee, turn to account every minute of sunshine
The construc ion OF her cell is marvel of insect
architecture; and if you were to attempt to
spread wax with the same neatness and regu-
larity, you would no doubt fail in the most gno-
minious manner. At least, | know / should; for
/ was only the other day sealing letter, when
/ burned my fingers dreadtully. | am aware
that bee's-wax is not sealing-waX: but still if
had used bce's-waX to fasten my envelope, |
dare say / should have made just as bad mess
of it, or worse. Then again, look how the
bee labors TO store those OctagOnal chambers
with the saccharine food she is all the day
gathering from roses, tulips candy-tuft, pelar-
goniums, pansics, pinls, hoIyhOcks, fuchsias,
heliotropes, marigolds, dahlas, begonias,
lupines, lilies, daffydowndillics, and, in
short, every opening flower | can't help think
ing that if the whole of ones time was passed in
books or work, orcyen healthy athletic pastimes,
such, for example. as hop-scotch dominoes,
tossing the caber, llnurr and spell, coddams,
cricket. FOUNDERS, peg-top, prisoners base,
noughts-and-crosscs Aunt Sally, cribbage, nine
pins, Indian clubs hy-the-gartor, boxing, bal
anciug tobacco-pipes on the tip of ones nose,
sllimming halipence at cats or attic-windows,
turning catherine-wheels in the road, or putting
the stone, we might hapy give as good an
account of every day our little friend the
Bee could do, if so required. (Sinee the fore
going was committed to manuscript, have met
with similar ideas in verse, by a DR.. Whats-his-
name. / do not, however, think it necessary or
desirable TO cancel my own original reflections
on a subject which, after all, is quite open to
| anybody.)
Chap. Hon Blowing Your Brains Out.
] would put the question 10 any sensible man,
whether he does or does not consider it nobler
in the mind to suffer many Inconvenience, to
which slings and arrows are mere ilea-bltes in
comparisOn-and especially / might indicate
blighted affections, the procrastination OF your
family solicitor when there is property TO be
distributed, in which you have share, losses of
the Derby. tightness Of the money market, the
impertinence of the fellow who keeps on calling
for the Queens taxes, and, generally, the spurns
that patient merit is obliged TO put up with from
all kinds of cads and humbugs, and stuck-up
little beasts who give themselves no end of airs,
and try to ride rough-shod over everybody who
has not had the same luck that they have-than
to terminate ones existence by an act of .felO
de ser Well, you know, the fact is that nobody
! would be fool enough to 20 on day after day
! standing this sort of thing, if it wasn't for a
! deuced strong objection to becoming body,
| and being sat upon by dozen tradesmen, some
| of whom, perhaps, have been confoundedly rude
| to one in ones life, when one has not happened
TO be able TO pay ones bills the moment one
has been called upon in sudden and peremp-
tory, not TO say insoent manner to do So
There's the rub! On consideration, most people
will rather bear the ills they have, than do any
thing desperate to get rid of them. q have
! but this moment met with passage in shock
ing tragedy, by the well-known Shakespeare
that bears decided family likeness to my phi
losophic proposition. 1t will scarcely be ex-
pectod that should eXpuuge the foregoing OBJ
seryations because OF their likeness to'what was
written at a distant perioc OF English literature }