Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-06-15


called vanity, with which the devil angles
for human souls-have, am convinced,
entered into a acombination against the adj
miration of the human face divine by its
| owner.
Like Proteus, find myself changing
my shape wherever go. AT the Bunk
um House, am fat boy. At the ST.
Bobolink, a living skeleton Once was
seriously alarmed on inspecting myself for
the first time in the glass,-on an occas-
ion when | had iast taken possession of a
new boarding house,-at discovering that
one of my eyebrows was in the middle of
my forehead. had been informed by a
medical student,-since plucked. from
whom derived most of my chirllrgical
information, that, paralysis not unfre-
quently produced such effects. descend
ed in some trepidalion to the parlor.
where had an interesting interview with
my landlady. who succeeded in removing
the unpleasant impression from my mind
that I was vic tim to that unbecoming
disease.
The glass was not, however, changed,
and never looked in it and beheld that
eyebrow in the middle of my forehead,
without the disagreeable sensation that in
the end | should die Cyclops.
The glass which | placed before the
Green Bird possessed, / regret to say,
certain defects in the plane of its surface,
which rendered self-contemplation by It's
all anything but an agreeable occupation.
know no man egotist enough to-as the
novels say spend hours before such
a mirror
The Green Bril-, as soon as h. bcheld
himself in this abomina5le mirror. uttered
scream of disgust. must say, that. on
looking over his shoulder, the image
formed by him in the glass was not a
graceful one. He was bumped. one lee
was shorter than the other, and his neck
looked as if il had just been wrring by n
school-boy.
What attracted my attention most, how
ever, were certain peculartieS in the re-
u h'cted image itself 1t scarcely seemed a
re lection. Ii was semi substantial. and
stood ont from the surface of the glass i'm
sort of haifrelief, that grew more and
more positive every moment In few
seconds more, the so-called image detach-
ed Itself from the mirror, and hoped out
on the table, perft c; counterpart of the
Green Bird, only bumped, With one leg
shorter than the other, and wry neck.
1T was an ornithological caIicaiure.
| The Green Bici itself now sidled away
from lis position before the mirror, and
the Caricature Bird took his place. If
the IMAGE cast by the former WAS d;stort-
ed, 10 words can convey the deformity of
the image cast by tie latter L was a
ieathered cripple. Ii was all hump. II
stood on one long attenuatcd leg. It's
neck was tori Cous as tie Wall Of Troy.
This rickety, ornithoIoeicai image pro-
duced itself in the mirror, in precisely the
same fashion as did its predecessor, and,
after gradually growing into substance,
detached itself from the polished surface,
and came out upon. taking its position be-
fore the mirror, rice the first humpback
resigned.
What the image cast by the third bird
was like cannot attempt to portray II
was chaos of necks and humps and
feathers. The reproduction. nevertheless,
went on and -he prolific mirrorl;ept send
ing forth stream of green abortions, that
after little While were no longer recog-
nizabe as belonging to any species of ami
NAL in the earth below, or the heavens
above, or the caverns that lie under the
earth. They filed my room. SwaFms OF
limping, wall-eyed, one e-legged. green
ieathered things hustled each other on the
floor. Ny bed was alive with plumed
mass OF deformity. They filled the air
making lame efforts at flight, and blindly
falling to the iloor, where they tumblcd
about in ineytricable confusion. The
whole atmosphere seemed thick with
green feathers. Myriads of squirting
, eyes glittered before me- Quin'ilions OF
rasalytic yellow bills crookedly .gapcd at
. lie
1 ieit myself treading or. thick carle..
of soft formless life. The fiuttering OF
embryonic wings, the twittering of sickly
voices, the rustling of lus,relcss puma
ges. produced a continuous and vague
sound that filed me with horror | was
knee-deep in the creatures. From out the
distorted mirror they poured in constant
stream. like procession of Nightmares,
and the tide-mark of this sea of plumage
rose higher and higher every instant.
felt as if was about to be suffocated,-as
if ] was drowning in an ocean Of Greer
Birds. They were on my shoulders
Nesting in my hair. Grooming their
loathsome noies into my ear Filling my
pockets, and bru hing with their wa M
fuzzy breasts against my cheek grew
wild with terror, and. making one des-
perate effort, struggled through the thick
mass of life that pressed like wall around
me to the window, and, flinging it open
cried in despairing voice: Kosamond
Rosamond, Save me, Rosamond!"
J. TO BE CONTINUED.
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MI. Darwin's Hypothesis
| If, in short, in its general application,
Mr. Darwip's hynothesis is utterly IN.