The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-09-16
Ohset atoms of en- and Things.
Bl OUR GEORGE.

Ohset atoms of Men and Things.
By OUR GEORGE.
And now the farmer shapenS his SrYthc,
@0es into his field and cuts down his wheat and
oats, though every time he swings His >eythe
ii goes against his grain.
" Have You caught any fish, bub:" asked a
gentleman OF Il small urchin that was fishing
of one of our Wharyes. ~ cssur, good eel ;"
said he. exhibiting one about eighteen inc hes
long.
There are one hundred and tWcnly-cighi feet
in Il cord of wood, but we know of several PEG
pie whom we don't think would chord if they
had 4 hundred and fifty feet.
The Frost family had reunon here Friday
night
The F'dyc is cast as the man said when he
threw Il bottle of it out of the window nj Il eat.
SKINKS. 1t is about this season of the year
that the people in this vicinity become aware
that they are the poS>esSor OF 4 nose. Now
most every one has Il nose, but some have
never had occasion to use it. and therefore
such persons do not know how TO appreciate
such feature. But let him run it into an
atmosphere highly scented by our native per-
tuners, and he quickly learns why nose is
lacked onto his face. The skunk is the only
essence pc,.iler that ever Travelled through this
state during the war without paving 4 license
We never heard OF Il revenue collector attempt
ing to collect a tax from one of them They
don't drive Il cart, but travel round on foot and
sell by samples. Each one represents his own
house; they keep up the grade of their goods
to the standard, and they never appear to be
any adulterated. Next to an elephant or Il
plate Of boarding house butter, a skunk is the
strongest thing in the worli--that is, when he
makes up his mind 10 be strong. There is not
Il more quiet thing in existence than Il skunk.
II goes right along about its business, and COM
mandS more respect that Il millionaire. Prob
ably no person that ever transacted any bust
ness with one of them would think of meeting
one again without showing it proper rcspectby
stopping, no matter in how much of Il hurry he
may be, and waiting till the skunk goes by.
And on the other hand no animal is we'll
aware of the position he holds i'll society and
the respect he commands as a skunk. lie is
no rcSpector Of persons, and never read 4 book
on poiteness. He will take the inside Of the
walk as readily from 4 lady as from gentle
man, and he never was seen 10 hurry, or TO
turn ont Of his track. for the best dressed man
in America. They are remarkable for their
good LOOKS and neat appearance, and are -
modest and ditlident that they seldom appear
on the streets in the day time, but take the
evenings for their strolls. They usually dress
IN a suit made of black and white striped ma
teria, ana walk along with Il thoughtful, down
cast air. They have "A picked nose on one end
and a bushY tail on the other, and are set mp
from the ground on four short legs, like a milk
ing stool or any other animal. In the country
they live in the woods in holes, but the city
residents take up their abode in drains and
under stables. They furnish their residence
with leaves in the fall of the year. and they do
not leave their bed and board without a Just
| cause. They usually marry young and have
twins or triplets, and It's 'like father like son."
each generation being more like the preceding
one if such Il thing is possible. They are ey-
| trcmeIY fond Of eggs, and will have them at
about Thank S@ivng time, when they were
worth three cents each We merely mention
this little fact to show how little regard they
appear to have for money. Probably il Il skunk
could have his choice, to be President or have
All the eggs he could eat, lie would hold up
both hands in favor of the eggs, but alas, they
do not always have their choice. When they
can't get eggs, they will eat anything else they
can get, if they can gel it, "Where ignorance
is bliss, It's folly to be wise" but where igno-
rance is skunk, it's Il good thing to know it.
A man never runs over skunk, or eats a
spoonful of Worcestershire sauce, but once in
Il lifetime, unless by accident. He is usually Il
young man, and is going after his girl TO take
her to Il ball. He is all dressed up in his best
clothes. and he feels as good as n newly filed
saw 1t is Il little dark, and he goes along at Il
quick pace, when suddenly he secs black and
white cat just ahead of him. With the natural
and never-to -be-controled impulse of true
American, he draws back his left propeller to
kick the eat, when the cat gives her tail flirt
and the air is filled with some unseen power,
that takes away his breath and knocks him
down as suddenly as though the tail of comet
had hit him, and with his first breath he gasps
out-"Oh, Lord, that cat was skunk whew ~
And rs he inhales the odor, he thinks that each
| nostril is as large as the end of a locomotive
smoke stack, and that some one is pouring the
perfume into them out of a wash tub He
struggles to his feet. He can't see ANYTHING
but that smell. He forgets his girl and the
ball, and only wishes that a bolt of lightning
would tear off his nose. He goes home and
| does not dare to enter the house. He raps at
| the window and asks Mother, what shall
doT' And she replies-''Do anything. whew!
| bury YOURSELF only don't come into the house"
And he commences to disrobe, feeling as mean
as if he had been born in Patagonia. His
mother throws out his old clothes, and he
creeps into them, and comes into the house
and goes to bed, and the result is that he has
lost suit of clothes, the ball, and his girl, who
has waited for him till she got mad, and went
to bed crying, and no amount of explanation
ON his part can ever make matters right with
her But to offset his loss he has learned this /:
that although ga rolling stone may gather no
moss" vet it is not safe to kick at cat in the
night, till you are sure it is cat. Before we
turn I'D the end of this SKETCH let us state that
| sure way to destroy skunks is to prick small