The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-04-10
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Last Saturday morning Montpelier
daj q dfst class sensation, completely
eaIlpiaE the small pox scare and
throwing that all-ensrassing topic com
p'etely go ths shade Capt Clark, eur
worthy postmaster, was walking up
Main street 90 a sanity frame Of mind,
me3itatug ou the beauties Of Spring
time a83 with a soul trimming over
with good viii toward all men, when,
60 use bis own quaint and iujmitable
confession to bis pastor, ~ met mine
adversary and ! smote him hip and
thigh That adversary CHANGED 10 be
brother Atkins, who had just stepped
out Of spjnuoy's market where he had
ordered bountiful fish diet for the
promotion Of sufficient brain power to
enable him to minister To the literary
iclcCtati6n Of the 1rgus readers and to
more effectively go for Capt Clark 10
another column Of personal criticism in
this week paper But for once the
editor found his dietetic arrangements
should haYe had reference to the cult.
walton Of Drawn and muscle rather than
the finer tissues iu the Uranium. The
postmaster politely tapped the editor
on the shoulder, aud with a smile that
was child-liko and bland, inquired why
he had so grossly maligned him in his
paper The editor courteously retort-
ed that it was none Of the postmaster's
business the paper was his own,
aud hc should use its columns as he
pleased. Ihereupou the postmaster
rose to explain and his language was
plain, that the editor was no gentle
man, and ought to be kicked out Of de-
cent society. The editor spiritedly
objected to such an estimate of his
character being thus publicly express
sed, and hurled at the postmaster cpl
thcts more pointed and personal than
courteous and complimentary. The
postmaster, warming up to his subject,
emphatically asserted that the public
street, filled with passers-by was quite
as proper place for personalities as
the columns Of newspaper and scath-
ingly denounced the editor as a malig.
ner and a coward. The editor, briStl-
ing all over with fight and fury, wGxed
exceedingly wroth, and invited his ac-
cuser to dry up" or he would catch
"particular fits" The postmaster's
temper had now risen to fever heat, and
unmihdml Of the prophecies of free
fight, he insultingly spit full in his ad-
versary's face Just as the editor with
the fist that holds the pen that sways
the world was essaying scientific
pass at the officials cheek. Greek had
met Greek, and now came the tug Of
war. Repelling the proiiered love-
pat, we regret to say the postmaster
struck from the shoulder right and left
pecling the editorial nose, putting the
editorial eye in mourning, raising that
categorical scab, we lately read about
on that handsome editorial phiz. Could
gross indiginity further 60? Had all
the milk Of human kindness curded in
mems veins Else why should the edi-
tors hand wander nervously upward as
! If to tweak the official nose, or the
postmaster's bony fingers so ardently
essay to raise the editorial scalp. Now
feet began to play--ah, it was "A sorry
feat to behold when all feet, come from
what direction they might, tended to
the same extremity
At length, both combatants went to
the walk, and the loving tenderness of
the postmaster was under and over and
about the editor. In fact the editor
was top Of the heap" resting serene
/ Iy in the official lap, with the official
/ legs wound about him, the official fng-
ers twincd devotedly in his back hair
aud tightly pressing the editorial head
to the official breast To complete the
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