Connecticut western news., 1879-10-08

full, still is deficient in 0 certain force. there is a want of leg-propelling power We have clergymen, lawyers, professors, clever men all, plenty of brains, but only one pair of good legsl ,-a<s.S
 We appreciate the oonsternation of the Frenchman, who, sojourning in this country, exclaimed, ."Mon Dieul So many religions, and only one saucet
 Brains are good, and come in well, as on recent fete, when our
 "Queen rose in the rosebud garden of Rirls.w had birthday, aud five original poems were feature in the enjoyment, But for every day wear and tramps over the -mountains good legs are the thing. The pair in our cottage, not only have tramped the whole region over, but have walked into our affections as well, they are surmounted by so much else that ie good good heart, good brains, good degree of spirituality, good measure of adipose, all com. bined in good preachari who is good com. pany, and all begin with B and dwell in the capitol of this good statsFI Our own and only This good Dr. B., in his strides over the country, occasionally meets with adventures, petty affairs, they have been heretofore, but q l few days ago he met with one corresponding | more to his size. He and @ fair dame aa companion, set out for a.view from . distant hill that loomed up most invitngly in the l horizon. It wasa long warm walk, but the time was begu,led. with pleasant chat and ! conundFIms intersperseds with climbing fenc- es, and the hill was reached, upon the apex of which they most desired to stand At every step forward, exclamations of delight and surprise were exchanged as the country
 opened out before them Both, ardent lovers of nature were enthused with the psoapec& that seemed to promise the best view of the
 season. Adjectives grew more profuBe as ons | ward and upward they climbed and the top was reached amid much enthusiasm and many promises to fepeat--when low nut ] tering as of distant thunder rolled toward Ithem' It was unnoticed again 1t sounded,
 this time nearer, and sstrnck their ears like
 something they had heard before, but had not needed. A quick glance around them showed a bull, with eyes on 6ses .-nostrils distended.
 head down shifting the Sarth, aud adyancsng
 toward them. The lady, knowing something
 of bull-fghts, lost no time in marching val. iantly and with good speed over and down the hill, The brave doctor spread a huge umr , brella, drew forth 8 miniature revolver, braced 1 himself-and the two, Bis faced each other,
 His bnllship paused, his intended victim did
 not, but retreated. in goSd order, under cover
 of umbrella and pistol, 4hd reached the foot of
 the hill, where the lady aSaited the close If of the bloodless gladiaaorial contest in the
 arms, of a friendly pinet They gathered force
 to continue their t'bull run" and found that
 they, like the 'sKing of France" scithom ten
 thousand men," had marched up the hill, and
 then marched down again, but-were on the
 other side, and miles from rhome
 II We shall never know what stopped thet
 bull-the doctor, the pistoL or the umbrella l-but probably being small b, and the doc
 tor g great biz capital B the former thought
 he had better ''give the whole thing up. ' The doctor has never been able to desorihe
 'that view" but the lady says 1t was
 beastlyl BRIN D'HRRRR