Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-30

Greenwich pensioner minus a leg and an
arm and who seemed to retain scarcely
sufficient strength in his remaining fin to
support a huge tankard of Charrington's
xxx; the wooden leg cooked in the air
as though it were playing at see-saw
with the body, which looked prepared to
sway backwards and forwards upon the
hip joint of the mutilated member, and
the countenance strikingly characteristic
of the happy insouciance of a votary of
Bacchus. Representations were there,
likewise, without number, of v%enturous
son of st. Hubert who, mounted on mo-
dern Pegasi we're flying across what to a
Dutchman would appear to be a tolerable
delineation of the Zuyder Zee, but which
the explanatory letter-press underneath
satisfactorily proved to be nothing more
than the W~hissendine Brook or the New
River. Some of the companions of these
choice spirits, less fortunate than their
competitors for fame, might be discerned
emerging from a dip over head and ears
in the "world of waters" but still most
miraculously sitting their horses with
unexampled grace and forcing them to
swim ''for the bare life; while others
again might be distinguished inclosed Gin
a plate representing the future career of
these worthless toward the goal of their
aspirations) coming neck and crop over
a hedge, bank, two bitches, and their
heads doubled completely under their
bodies, throwing a somerset that
would excite the envy of old Joe Girl
maldi's ghost, while their riders are TAX
ing a flying leap, headforemost, into a
deep chalk or gravel pit. To make
amends, however, for the narrowing
sights here exhibited to the spectator,
another marvellously executed plate oc-
cupied the next couple of square feet of
the wall, wherein all apprehension of the
ultimate fate of the gallant steeds and
their riders is fully relieved by their all
happily appearing making full sail for
the winning post, which is in view with
out any intervening impeachment, and
(which is worthy of observatory exhib-
iting no trace of their mishaps by flood
and field, but, on the contrary, looking
as clean and fresh as at the moment of
starting.
Nor were there lacking those splendid
illustrations of Mr.. Osbaldeston perform
ing his two hundred-mile match against
time, in which the extraordinary rate of
travelling has so far altered the features
of the squire as to give him anything but
a gentlemanlike appearance, and the
wonderful performance of the celebrated
American trotter Tom Thumb, who
seems so disguised with the soil of his
ancestors that he scorns to touch it. while
Indignation at being exported from his
native country swells out his neck till it
has far exceeded the dimensions of his
body-a trick of producing a double OF
to have acquired Ia Widow Barnaby,
An inquisitive inspector of the remain
ing pictures which decorated the dor.
mitory of Mr.. Jonathan Ginger would
uOuDtlCso HOt IldNC DdsSCu ONtl lllC Ntll-
known prints of the understanding Billy
of Westminster Pitt n%otoriety; of sew
eral of the sturdy pugilistic champions
of England the Norfolk phenomenon ;
some prime portraits of a few chairmen
of some noted free-and-easy clubs; and
we blush to say it-three or four very
alluring representations of females,
whose loose scale of morality has handed
their names and persons down to poster.
ity in a manner far more durable thar
the strictest adherence to virtue coulG
have secured to them. Among these fig,
ures, conspicuously, is ga portraiture OF
the celebrated Nell Gwynne," IN which
the lady was depicted in a rakish sort Of
undress, and leering most Significantly
from behind a huge pile of oranges a
..'his most sacred majesty of blessed mem
ory." whose mouth appeared to water a
the luscious heap presented to his admir-
ing gaze. The room was hot and close
and the strong-mixed efluvium of physi,
and Geneva which ~pervaded it, would
doubtless under other circumstances hav,
driven from it those whose sense of smell
had not been impaired by disease or &,
long habit of enduring similar odors bu'
at present the scent was inhaled unheed
ed by the occupants of the apartment
whose feelings of anxiety precluded thu
chance of too-delicate discrimination o
so trifling an inconvenience.
The doctor had not long taken hi
leave, after recommending his patient t,
settle any mundane concerns which nigh
disturb his last hours; and, in accord
ance with this last intimation, Mr.. iona
than Ginger had caused his family to b,
assembled around his bed and had like
wise desired the attendance of his fore
man and factotum, Bill SPAWN $50 nick
named from a slight lameness in one knee
in order that he might bear witness t.
the yaledictOry ~admOnitiOns which N