The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-07-20

we are so very happy what matter2
'And l won prince among men,
she answers tenderly "and would d,
it over again
Wants to be a Bird.
An Iowa girl poet sends us
poem, the first line of which is a
follows:
AZ would were u bird"
That settled her hash. No bird.
need apply. What in the wild,
world a decent looking, healthy CIR
wants to be bird for, is more thar
we can imagine. Granting that al
Iowa girl poet is as handsome as &
statue, how like thunder she would
look as bird, sitting on a rail fence
on one leg, scratching her feathers
with one claw, or hopping dowr
under gooseberry bush scratching
for anglewOrms with her bare toe
nails. If the girl poet should FIND
an angleworm she would run away
and scream. But maybe it is not
that kind of bird she wants to be-
There is no kind of bird that can
have as much fun as a girl. AS q
girl she can go to all the places oi
amusement, dance and flirt and get
mashed, but as a bird, with nothing
on but feathers, she would catch
cold. Imagine a girl poet flying
around in the trees, hopping from
limb to limb. She would have the
whole town watching her and max
ing remarks. Think how a girl
poet would feel if she was a bird,
and should be moulting. She would
watch every feather that dropped
of, and wonder how long the feath-
ers were going. to hold out. And
then if the girl poet was bird she
would have to set, if she was that
kind of poet, or bird, and the
setting would commence just when
there was the most going on in
society, and she would have to stay
right by regardless, and after the
poet bird got off the nest she would
look sick and it would take her six
weeks to recruit up so as to make q
decent appearance in bird society.
If a girl poet desires to be bird in
order to get out Of any of the duties
of life, so as to have high old time
chirruping around stealing cherries,
and singing the livelong day, she
makes mistake. Birds may seem
to be free from care, and to have a
soft thing, but they have a heap of
trouble. There is the same jealousy
and back biting among birds that
there is among human beings, and
a good-looking, well dressed bird,
who has any style about her, and is
a trifle independent and jolly, will
find that she will get her feathers
rumpled, and be called names, and
she will wish some boy with bean
snapper would fire a load of beans
right through her. Our Iowa poet
does not say what kind of bird
she would like to be, but we can't
think of any kind of bird that
would be as good as girl. OF
course she wouldn't want to be a
canary bird, or a mocking bird in a
cage and have to sing for hemp
seed and mocking- bird food and
look out for cats. She would prob
ably want to be wild, out door, go
as-you-please sort of bird. Well,
there is none of that kind that are
perfectly safe, and who always have
a good time. -four girl poet bird
was a duck or a wild goose, she
would be flying along some day
when there would be a puff OF
smoke under her, and she would
feel as though she had hot box,
and would go off and sit on a musk
rat house all night picking No. G
shot out of her dark meat, or the
second joint or elsewhere, as the
ease might be. There wouldn't be
much fun in that. If she was q
pigeon she would be caught in q
trap and have her neck wrung
And what ever kind of bird oul
poet might be, she would have tC
scratch gravel for a living, and eat
worms. The outlook would not be
first class. The only bird she could
be, and be a success, would be s
hen, and have a rooster to scratch
for her, and then there would b.
the drawback of having to share
the worms her own darling rooster
might find with a whole flock o
hens. { If our Iowa girl poet hal
got fair job in her business, anC
can't catch on to a fellow once in .
while, and does not want the earth
she should cease repining, let thi
bird scheme go, and be contentet
as a girl. A girl can discount al
the birds in the woods, and be il
no danger of being shot by boy
with sings [Peck's Sun.
The people along the Bricl
Church line of road should not slee
on their oars now. They are ex
pected and will shortly be solicite'
to increase their subscriptions o
stock to the turnpike, but the
ought not to wait to be called upor
They know the soliciting committe
and can subscribe stock at any tim
without waiting to be invited. Th
| committee should also be active
| Gentlemen, you should lose no OF
portunity to agitate it. A DANCE
turks just at this juncture and ha
killed more than one venture of th
kind. The obtaining a charter an
the organization of the compan
has the appearance of an accomplish
ment of the object and men natul
ally fall back and relax their effort
thinking that now the thing is a
sursd and there is no necessity f
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