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E G A fi L A N D.
--"With .weetesl (fewer. enriCh'ii,
FrOin various zaritens with care."
A SClEI"CISII SONG.
orj-We give b;dow (says the New England Galaxy)
a Scottish Song, written sour• years since, by the
celebrated Allan Cunningham, a:al publi,ln-d with
his WWI , . It IS a beautiful de , cription of a Love,
based upon and confiding in the protecting power of
God, for which the Scottish poetry is so remarka
ble. nod whichis so well conveyed by its singular
idiom An air of direct and natural feeling runs thro'
it,(as it does thrmigh many of the simple pieces of
Burns,) which addresses itself at once to the feel
ings of every one,and not clothed in our loran
of speech, is at all times acknowledged a,. the true
.law4nage of the heart.
Tnov hart vow'd by thy faith. my Je,anic,
By that pretty white hand of thino,
And I,v all dm stars of h. aver,
That thou wad aye be mum;
And I have sworn by my faith.my Jeanie,
And i,v that kind heart of thine,
By all the stars snwn thick o'er heaven,
That thou shalt aye be mine.
Fool fa' the hand wad loose sic baud,
And the heart wad part sic love•
But there is nae hand can loose the band,
But the firigcr of Him above;
Though the wee wee cot maim be my hield,
Anil my clothing ("en so mean,
I should lap up rich in the find& of love,
Heaven's arinfit' at my Jean.
Thy white arm wad be a pillow to me,
Far softer than the down;
And love %rad winnow o'er IP, hi, kind wings,
And sweetly we'd sleep and suun':
Come here to me, thou lass whom I love,
Ciao,. h.•re and kneel me;
The morning' is full of the presence of God,
And I cannot pray but wi' thee.
The wind is sweet amanz the new glowers,
The wee birds sing. soft on the tree,
Our mule man sits in the bonny sunshine,
And Edythe auld bottle is he;
The held: mama beta - en when he comes home
Vi' the holy psahnodie;
And I will speak of thee when I pray,
And thou maim speak of tue.
AN AMUSING TREAT.
JAPHET,
IN =Aiwa or,A FATHER
OZ,j - CONTINITED FROM OUR LAST
The next evening I left Timothy in
charge, and repaired to her house; it was
very respectable in outward appearance, as
well as its furniture. I was nut, however,
shown up into the first floor, but into the
room below.
"Miss Judd will come directly, sir," said
a tall, meagre, puritanical looking maid,
shutting the door upon me. In a few min
utes, during which my pulse beat quick, for
I could not but expect some disclosure; whe
ther it was to be one of love or murder, 1
hardy knew which—Miss Aramathea Judd,
fir such was her Christian name, made her
appearance, and sitting down on the sofa,
requested me to take a seat by her.
"Mr. Newland," said she, "I wish to—
and I think I can—entrust you with a secret
most important to me. Why lam obliged
to do it, you will • perfectly comprehend
when you have heard my story. Tell me,
are you attached to mel"
This was a home question to a forward
lad of sixteen. I took her by the hand, and
when I looked down on it, I - felt as if I was.
I looked up into her face, and felt that I was
not. And as I now was close to her, I per.
ceived that she must have some aromatic
drug in her mouth, as it smelt strongly—
this gave me the supposition that the breath,
which drew such melodious tones, was not
equally sweet, and I felt a certain increased
degree of disgust.
"I am very grateful, Miss Judd," repli
ed I; "I hope I shall prove that I am attach
ed when you confide in inc."
"Swear, then, by all that's sacred, you
wtll not reveal what I da confide."
"By all that's sacred I will not," replied
1, kissing her haud with more fervour than
I expected from myself.
"Do me then the flivour to excuse me
one minute." She left the room, and in a
very short time, there returned,in the same
dress, in every other point the same person.
but with a young and lively face of not more,
apparently, than twenty-two or twenty-three
years old. I started as if I had seen an ap•
parition. "Yes," said she smiling, "you
now see A rumathen Judd without disguise;
and you are the first who has seen that face
for more than two years. Before I proceed
further,again I say,may I trust you—swear!"
"I du swear" replied Land took her hand
for the book, which this time I kissed with
pleasure, over and over again. Like a
young jackass us I was, I still retained her
hand, throwing as much persuasion as I pos.
sibly could in my eyes. In fact, I did
enough to have softened the hearts of three
how - let-makers. I began to feel most dread
fulty in love, and thought of marriage, and
making my fortune, and I don't know what;
but all this was put an end to by one silo*
short sentence, delivered in a very decided
but soft voice, "Japhet, don't be:silly." -
I was crushed, and all guy hopes crushed
with toe. 1 dropped her hand, and sat like
fool.
ekV s. 'and now hear me. ,I am, as you must
have already found out, an Impostor; that
is, I am what is called a religious adventu
ress—a new term, I grant, and perhaps on
ly applicable to a very few. My aunt was
considered, by a certain sect, to be a great
prophetess, and had the gift of the unknown
tongues, which I hardly need tell you, is all
nonsense; nevertheless, there are hundreds
who believed in her, and do so now. Brought
up with iny aunt, I soon found out what
fouls and dupes may be made of mankind by
taking advantage of their credulity. She
had her religious inspirations, her trances,
and her couvulsions,and I was always behind
the scenes: she confided in me, and I may
say that I was her only confidant. You can•.
not, therelbre, wonder at my practising that
deceit to which I have been brought up from
almost ray nititney. In person I am the
exact counterpart of what my aunt was at
my ago, equally so in figure, although my
figure is now disguisod to resemble that of
a %venom of her age." I looked whoa she
said this, and perceived that by carrying the
bones of her stays up very high, she had
cont. iyed to give an appearance of Hawes.;
to a breast, which seemed to swell with in
dignation at such treatment. "I often had
dressed myself in my awe's clothes, put on
her cap and Inuit, and then the resemblance
was very striking:' My aunt fell sick and
died; but she promised the disciples that
she would reappear in them, and they be
lieved her. I did not. She was buried,
and by nerly her return was anxhaisl v ex•
peeled. It occurred to me about a week
afterwards that I might cmitri we to deceive
!twill. I dressed in my a11111 ' ,4 clothes, I
painted :col dis 4 uised my face as you have
Seen, and the deception was complete, cven
to myself, as I surveyed myself in the glass.
I boldly set off in the evening to, the taher•
nacie, which I knew they still frequent:A—
ctium into the midst of them, speaking iii
the unknown tongue, and they fell down
and worshipped me as a prophetess risen
from the dead; deceived, indeed, by my an•
pearance but still more deceived by their
own credulity. For two years I have beet'
omnipotent with them; but there is one dif
ficulty which shakes the fitith of the new
converts, and new converts I must have,
Japhet, as the old ones die, or I should out
be able to fee'my physician. It is this, by
habit I can almost throw myself into a stu
por or a convulsion, but to do that effectu
ally, to be able to carry on the deception
for so a time, unit to undergo the severe
attending such violent exertion, it is
necessary that I have recourse to stimulants
—do you understand 7"
de," replied I; "I have more than once
'thought you under the influence of them
towards the evening. I'm afraid that you
th
take more an is gum; for year health."'
"Not more than I require for what I
have to undergo to keep up the faith of my
disciples; but there aro many who waver,
some who doubt, and I find that my move
ments are watched. I cannot trust the
woman in this house. I think she is a spy
let upon me, but I cannot remove her, as
this house, and all which it contains, are
notlinine, but belong to the disciples in gen
eral. There is another woman, not fir off,
who is my rival; she culls me an impostor,
and says that hers is the true unknown
tongue, and mine is not. This will be ra
ther difficult for her to prove," continued
she, with a mocking smile, "as neither are,
or can be, understood. Beset as I am, I
require your assistance, for you must he I
aware that it is rather discreditable to a )
prophetess, who has risen from the dead, to I
be seen all day at the gin shop, vet without'
stimulants now I could not exist."
"And how can I assist you?"
"By sending rne, as inedicine, that which
I dare no longer procure in any other way,
and keeping the secret which I have im•
macs]."
"I will do both with pleasure; but yet,"
said I,"is it not a pity,a thousan&Oities,that
one 30 young—and, if you will allow me to
add, so lovely, should give herself up ardent
spirits? %V hy," continued I,talung her small
white hand, "why should you carry on the
deception; why sacrifice your health, and.l
may sav,your happiness—" What more
I might have said I know not, probably it
'night have been an oiler of marriage, but
she cut me short.
" Why does every body .sacrifice their
health, their happiness, their all, but for am
bition and the love of power? It is true, as
long as this little beauty lasts, I might be
courted as a woman, but never should I be
worshipped as—l may say— a god. No,
no—there is something too delightful in
that adoration, something too pleabent in
witnessing a crowd of fools stare, and those
three times my age falling down and kissing
the hem of my Lral•mont. This is, indeed,
adoration! the delight arising from it is so
t eat, that all other passions are crushed
by it—it absorbs all other feelings, and has
closed uty heart oven against love, Japhel.
I could not, I would not debase mvsalt, sink
sa ktv in my own estimation, as to allow so
paltry a passion to have-dominion over me;
and, indeed, noi . v that I am so wedded to
stimulants,even if I were no longer a pro
phetess, it never could."
"But is not intoxication 'one f the most
debasing of all habits?"
"I grant you, in itself; but,with Inc and in
my situation it is different. l I fall to rise
again, an - 1 114, , 1ter. I cannot he what lam
without I stimulate—l cannot stimulate
withimtstitaulants, therefor at t e es but a means
to a treat mid glorious ambition."
1 had mo..e conversation with her before
I lettobut nothing appeared to move her
resolution, and I left her, lamenting, in the
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first place, that she had adjured love, be
cause, notwithstanding the orris root, which
sho kept in her mouth to take away the
smell of the spirits, I found -myself - very
much taken with such beauty of person;
combined with so much vigour of mind;
and in the second, that one so young should
carry on a systein of deceit and self destruc
tion. When I rose to go away, she put
five guineas in my hand, to enable me to
purchase what she required. „Add to this
one small fitvotir," said I, "Aramathett—
allow me a kiss."
"A kiss," replied she, with scorn; "no,
Japhet, look upon me, for it is the last time
you will behold my youth; look upon me as
a sepulchre, fair without, but unsavory and
rotteneess within. Let me do a greater
kindness, let me awaken your dormant en
ergies, and plant that ambition in your soul,
which may lead to all that is great aml
good--a better path, and more worthy of a
man than the one which I have partly cho
sen, and partly destiny has decided for me.
Look upoa me as your friend; although,
perhaps, you truly say, no friend unto my
self. Farewell—remember t hat to-100110%v
you will send the medicine which I require."
I left her, and returned home: it was Imo.
I went to bed, and disclosed as much
to Timothy us I could safely venture to
I fell th s t asleep, but her figure and her
• ; :eice haunted Llre. in my
.drecans. At O m:
time she appeared before ine in her painted
enameled face, and than the mask fell off,
and I fi!ll at her feet to worship her extreme
beauty; then her beauty would vanisl', and
Slln Would a ppear un image of loathseatie•
ness and (kronen y, and I felt sun; }ea led
with the atmosehere impregnated with the
smell of hillier. I would wake mid com
pose myself again, glad to he rid of the
horrid dream; but ea= would she appear,
with a hydra's tail, like Sin, in Milton's Par
adise Lost, wind herselfroned me, her beau-
Will face gradually changing into that of a
skeleton. I cried out with motor, and a
woke to sleep no more, and effectually cured
by my dream of the penchant which I felt
towards Miss Anunathea Judd.
The next day I sent Timothy to purchase
sonic highly rectified white brandy, which
I colothld with a blue tincture, and added
to it a solidi proportion of the essence it
cinnamon, to disguise the smell; a dozen
large vials, carefully tied up and sealed,
were depatched to her abode. She now
seldom calied, unles:f it Nt a. 4 oat iy ia tits
morning; I yrettle repeated visits to her house
to receive money, but no li,oger to make
love. One day I requested permission to
be present at their meeting, and to this she
gave immediate consent; indeed we were
on the most intonate terms, and when she
perceived Mitt I no knitter attempted to
play the fool, I was permitted to remain for
hours with her in conversation. She had,
as she toad me she intended, re-enameled 1
and painted her face, hut knowing what
beauty was concealed underneath, I no long
er felt any disgust.
Timothy was very much pleased at his
share of this arrangement, as lie seldom
brought her the medicine without pocket
ing halfa crown. For two months all went
on well, but Timothy had such curiosity
to attend one of these meetings, that lw
himself asked Miss Judd's permission—it
was granted; he went theme with me, wit
nessed the scene of folly, duplicity, and
credulity, and without my having, any idea
of what he intended, he formed a project in
his &Wl' head by which to expose it; his
lova of ftin overcoming all motives arising
from interest and prudence..
We had seine . difficulty to obtain per
mission for both of us to go out, but Mr.
Cophagus contented, as we had not had a
holiday. for the whole period we had boon
in his service. He staid at home, and we
went to drink tea with Miss Judd, by alt.
pointment, as we asserted. But Timothy
was determined to go a second time to the
meeting, that he might put his projects into
execution. I again applied to Mr. Copha.
gus, littlo thinking that I was taking a step
which would put an end to all die presenta•
' tion guineas which I received, in return for
my supplying Miss Judd with the means of
deceiving her disciples.
"Out again," said Mr. Cophagus, "when
—um—why—no, no."
I replied that we had free admissions pro.
sented to us for one of the minor theatres,
s and that we had never been to a theatre in
our lives.
"Theatre—music—all fir nothing—good
—what's the play?"
"Mock Doctor, sir, and another."
"Mock Doctor—cut up profeesion—um
--bud--very funny, and so on. Go."
And so we went.
Timothy had not taken his basket of medi
nine on that day, as I thought, and he Put it
on his arm; but the rogue had deliveced it
before, still lie carried his basket
elides wore all collected when we arrived,
and on °lir entering the drawing room, on
the first floor, we found Miss Judd in her low
pulpit, Lot a little the worse for liquor, but,
nevertheless, all the better able to act her
part. I took my place, as I generally did
when I. went there, behind the pulpit, where
I perceived that a store of vials full of my
medicine wore deposited, in case she should
require thcm,A circumstance which did not
escapo the mtschief:loving Timothy. Miss
Judd, had just commenced her shrieks—
"Ullima! Ullima! protocol parbilii chron
ton—Ullima! Ullima!-•them, bat Halo light."
Two old fools, with spectacles, were taking
down the words which escaped froth her,
lips on large books, already titled with her
former jmipirations,.ofwhiyh they supposed
that one day they were to receive the key.
Another dose from one of my bottles, which
stood beside on the pulpit, and she again
commenced her violent gestures and strange
I jargon—crying out, " Phere is more light—
Whited Unified Yes, there sure is light—
is light;" and then overcome with her vio
lence and frantic gesticulations, she fell
down, as they supposed, in a trance, in which
she asserted she was permitted to view the
leansions of the blessed. .1 received her in
to my arms, and laid her on the floor of the
room, and uow helfa dozen old women, who
considered that they also had been favored,
with the tongues, commenced a simultane
ous howl, enough to frighten away the evil
spirit. At last they threw themselves down
on the floor in apparent convulsions. Tinto.
thy ran to them, and pouring down their
throats vial after vial, the contents of which
e.ey sucked in greedily, soon made them
more outrageous, while the other disciples
teetted on each side of the room, on two long
Ihrms, cried out, "A visitation, a visitation!
llosaennli to on high—Husain - all to the
prophetess!" This blasphemy continued a
hem hall an hour, when A rauritheit rose, as
ir recovered from her trance, but the liquor
hid bad its effect; her gait was treinhling,
and she required Inv support to eain the put
pit. She had just ohta Med her position, and,
holding on by both hands was about to ad.
dress the meeting, when Timothli, who bad
purchased about two score of sparrows, and
had them concealed in his basket,opened the
lid and -let them all fly; they immediately
flew to the lights, which they extinguished,
add all was in dart rues , ” To the howling of
the, drunken old women was now added the
cries of alarm. Timothy jumped on the ta
ble, and with a piece of phosphorus, which
hu had in a small vial of water all ready,
tr./irked out on his own clothes and person,
rib idler rib, bone after bone; until he appear.
ed by degrees, to their astonished eyes, to
form himself into a fiery skeleton. Then
came shrieks of horror and dismay; the up
roar was astounding. "Beelzebel Alred
diii!—Ulliu n! vaunt Ashteroth!
—Avaunt Ullimal my Ullimal—Prophet
ess, where Rid you?" Lip they all rose at
Iree, fur fear had hitherto held them to their
seats—up they all rose, like two coveys of
birds, tiheseape from the evil one, who, they
i imagined, had entered into their tabernacle;
but Timothy had walked behind the forms,
end haviog procured about two dozen small
',e.tiiblets, had silently and unperceived, fixed
(iteee man and ..oman by their clothes to
Qtl'.) kag forms en wluch they had been seat
so that when they all got up the forms
;:dliered to and connected them all together,
and the fall of one or two brought down all
the rest, sprawling, kicking, and shrieking,
on the floor, in their horror and dismay.--
It wsit parelemoirium—and Timothy, on
the table, flaming in phosphorus hooked like
Satan, when he culled the thllen angels from
the fiery gulf. For myself, aware of whet
would take place, I drew the now ale;o , !
sensible thrin of Aramathea , t!.,
pulpit, and contrived to
carry I►er down stairs. .1
►ng one or two yells to it :;
and dismay, sJ)raug from
lowed me. Just as we fh.
lor•door, t he polico burst in al 01
stairs, Lind ve • took that oppor:,an:l
cape, carrytnif r' 'the insensible Artoo.t;.:.:.
between us. Notwithstanding :
sit ion, on the part of the crow.:
outside, wo contrived to get cli' ;';
at last gained the house of '
"Ha!" cried he, opening 11,, (' hat's
all thisl—young woman— :cc—much
hurt, and so 00'
"Not vary much hurt, i h--ere," re
plied I, "but very time) !;., , .:d,"l.ts we
carried her into the r aril laid
her on the sofa.
Air. Cophagus
he fell her pulse—
he smelt her
prescribe—bad r,;hu)--quite drunk•—git
.
—um—cemp',llnd 4ual so on." Ili. then
went to thc., boor . afl•-..1 a watchman, trder
ed Misy ,?Ipid 1 , , .ti, taken to the watelitouse,
(i
where sh , ! ::.: :. , ,dted up with n il her lisci
pies, wh , ;.n , i nc ceded her. Vel dar not
make any i. : , j , .. , e.tions. The next day was
inforincj. I•) r , ,-port of the exposure Which
had tukrri :1..! , ,p0, and never oiler that hard
any n Arnmathea Judd.
I t!' 1 imothy very much tier hie tin.
guar !1. - h.tvior, but he de:l:tided hi n.self,
by that it was his duly to untimilt
hyr : nefarious, and that there could
be derived from money bestowed,
;peen on us, foi such a peruhinus
I could not deny dm truth of
11:.• ~ ,,o uvations, and when I reflected, 1
.kal at the SLIMS I had received end
,;..!.!•ed away; we continued to tile in
, ;P:.t test harmony, and 1 found (two.
&IA more in the sight of Mr. Copha ;u s.
this affair of' Miss Judd, I adhored
1! to my business, and profiting by4tho
'0 given me by that young person,,iin
rapidly in my profession, as weM as
tat litiewiedge; but my thoughtJas
;; re upon one subject—my parentt;re
t icintiwing over it. My Mir
, ri me at last so painful, tho u
urbe to feuding to drive them away,
•ribing, to a good circulating lihro s 'y i
doin without a book in my hand.,—
time I had been malty two years
with 'Mr. Cophugus, when an ad.
• Jecurred which 1 must atteinpt to
Ivith all the dignity with which it
1,3 invested.
t world of ambition, competition, ,
v. Nation rivals nation, and flies
.ntting the throats oru few thou.
The dis.
!lc par-
re,,cxdmiro hor;
A her eyelds--
"A !;.'' said he, 'can't
fix their claws, turned their eyes to the
scene below. Two 'political antagonists
Mopped their noiey arguments. Two bust.
men wised to ring their bells; and two little
urchins eating cherries from the crowns of
a4hast with fear.
each violence, that they each rebounded
many paces; but like. stalwart knights, each
kept his basket and his feet. A few seconds
to recover breath; ono withering, fiery look
from Timothy, returned by his antagonist,
one ;lash of the mmory in each to tell them
that they each had the la on their •idll, and
sands on each side till one finds that it has
the worst of it. Man rivals man, and hence
I detraction, duels, and individual death. We
man rivals woman, and hence loss of reputa
tion, and position in high, and loss of hair,
and fighting with protons in low life. Are
Iwe then to be surprised that this universal
passion, undeterred by the smell of drugs
and poisonous compounds, should enter into
apothecaries' shops? Certainly not. Let
me proceed. But two streets—two very
short streets from our own—was 'situated
the single-fronted shop of Mr. Ebenezer
Pleggit. Thank heaven, it was only single
fronted; there, at least, wo bad the ascen. 1
dancy over them. Upon other points, our
advantages were more equally bulanced.—,
Mr. Pleggit had two large coloured bottles,
in his windows more than we had; but then
we had two horses, and he had only one.
f -le tied over the corks of his bottles with
r6d , coloured paper; we covered up the lips
of our vials with true blue. It certainly was
the ea: e—for though an enemy, I'll do him
justice- 7 0m after Mr. Brookes had left us,
Mr. Pleggit had two shopmen, and Mr. Co.
plunges only one; but then that one was Mr.
Japhet Newland; bosides, ono of his assist
nuts had only one oye,and the other squinted
horribly, so if we measured by eyes ; I think
the advantage MN actually on our side; and
as flu as ormunent went, most decidedly; for
who would not prefer putting on his chimney
piece one handsome, elegant vase, than two
damaged, ill looking pieces of crockery?—
Mr. Pleggit had certainly a gilt mortar and
pestle over his door, which Mr. Cophagus
had omitted when he furnished his shop; but
then the mortar had a great crack down the
middle, and the pestle had lost its knob.—
And let me ask those who have been accus
tomed to handle it, what is a pestle without
a knob?
On the whole, I think, with the advantage
of having two fronts, like Janus, we certain
ly had the best of the comparison; but I
shall leave the impartial to decide. All I
can say is, that the feuds of the rival houses
were most bitter—the hate intense—the
mutual scorn unmeasureable. Did Mr. Ebe
nezer Pleggit meet Mr. Phineas Cophagus
in the street, the former immediately began
to spit as if he had swallowed some of his
own vile adulterated drugs; and in rejoinder,
Mr. Copliagus immediately raised the cane
from his nose high above his forehead in so
threatening an an itude, LtS almost to warrant
the other swearing the peace against him,
muttering, "Ugly puppy' --= knows nothing—
um—patients die—and so on." It may be
well supposed that this spirit of enmity ex
tended through the lower branches of the
rival houses—the assistants and I were at
the deadly feud; and this feud was even
more deadly between the boys who carried
out the medicines, and whose baskets might,
in some measure, have been looked upon as
th , 'ival ensigns of the parties, they them.
—;•,•..s occupying the dangerous and honour-
L! ', ;q)st of standard bearer. Timothy,
•:itllo ,, ih the kindest-hearted fellow in the
e ‘l, W 39 as good a hater as Dr. Johnson
irt,. , :uin'ersild have wished to meet with; ma
wiwn ha; basket was not so well
he would fill up With empty
buNied below, rather than the credit of the
house should be suspected, and his deficien
cies create a smile of scorn in the mouth of
his red.baircd antagonist, when they hap.
pened to meet going their rounds. As yet,
no actual collisam had taken place between
either the principals or the subordinates •el
the hostile frictions; but it was fated that this
state of quiescence should no lohger remain.
Homer has sung the battles of gods, demi-
gods, and heroes; Mitten the strife of angels.
swift has been great in his Battle of the
Books; but I am not aware that the battle of
the vials has as yet been sung; and it re-
quires a greator genius than was to be found
in those who portrayed the conflicts ofheroes,
demigods, gods, angels, or books, to do ad
equate justice to the mortal strife which
took place between the lotions, potions,
draughts, pills, and embrocationS. 1 must
tell the story as well as I cati, leaving it as
an outline for a future epic.
Burning with all the hate which infuriated
the breasts of the two houses of Capulet and
Montague, hate each day increasing from
years of "biting thumbs" at each other, and
yet no excuse presenting itself for an affray,
Timothy Oldmixon—for on such an occa•
ion it would be a sin to omit his whole de•
signation—Timothy Oldrnixon, I say, burn
ing with boo and eager with hasteourning
a corner or the street with his basket well
filled with medicines banging on his left arm,
encountered equally eager in his haste, and
equally burning in Ins hate, the red•haired
Mercury of Mr. Ebenezer Pleggit. Great
was the concussion of the oppos►ng baskets,
dire was the crash of many of the vials,and
dreadful was the mingled odour of the a
bominations which escaped, and poured
through the wicker interstices.. Two ladies
flow Billingsgate, who wore near, indulging
their rhetorical powers, stopped short. Two
torn cats, who wore on an adjacent roof, just
fixing their eyes of enetnity, and about to
heir hats, lost si4ht of their fruit,,and stood
They met, and met wan
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"Take that !" Was roared by "Timothy,
planting a well-directed blow with his dexter
and dexterous band upon the sinister and
sinisterous eye. of his opponent. "Take
that 1" continued he, as his adversary,reeled
back; "take that, and ho d—d to you, for
running against a gentleman."
Ho of the rubicund hair had retreated, be.;
cause so violent was the blow he could not
help so doing, and we all must yield to fate.
But it was not from fear. Seizing a vile
potation that was labelled "To be taken im'
mediately,P and hurling it with denioniacal
force right on the chops of the couragevits
Timothy, "Take that l" cried he with - a
rancorous yell. The missile , well direefiAl
as the spears of Homer's heroes, cater; fi.M
Il i upon the bridge of Timothy's nose, rier.i
! fragile gloss shivering, inflice,d "
WI/I/rids upon his phy siognonr, and at th 3-• :.
same time pouted fiirth a de;
coloured balsam, to bee/ pain
unutterable. Timothy. irq.: to la
ment the agony of 1..!t. • . :;)llowed the
example of his re . hastily eriz...
trig a similar • . . . ;Areer
simis, threw it ‘vith i;"(co that it Rl)i!t ,
between the eyes upt , onent. Thus,
with these dreadfill did they com
mence the mortal et rife.
The lovers of g; or.:r. or at least of
fair play, gathered the combatants,
forming an almost is ;:able ring, yet of
readm i t di filens i ;:void the missiles.
"Go it, red-head!" ' - .zo/ white apron. , "
resounded on eve:, , Draughts now
tact draughts it, isjage through the
eireumambient • '!at exploded like shells .
over a besie:z-k • • Boloties were fired
with the preci.4 ,e.:n shot, pill.boXes
were thrown w it,. that they heist
like grape am. cam, , 1 , .) acids and
kulies hissed, as they nt-.e.ralL-e•I c; , ch otb
, OA. power, with all the ve:Jant
snakes. "Bravo! white apron!"
for ever!" resounded on every .sitle. (41.0.
conflict continued with unabated vigeur.--;
The ammunition was fast expending on both
sides, when Mr. Ebenezer Pleggit, hearing
the noise, and perhaps smelling his own
drugs, was so unfortunately rash, and so un
wisely foolhardy, as to break through the
filtered ring,advaticinifront behind with up
filled cane to fell the redoubtable Timothy,
when a mixture of his own, hurled by his
own red-haired champion, caiktht him in.
his open mouth, breaking agai.i.st i.. 3 enly-e •
two remaining front teeth, extracting them
as the discharged liquid rundown hie threa,
and turning him us sick as a dog. Hifel' :
was taken away on a shutter, and it was
some days before he was again to be sect
in his shopthzpen3ing those medicines whic:l,
on this fatal occasion, he would but too glad
ly have dispensed with.
Reader, have you not elsewhere read
the mortal ft - ay between knights, when the
mere has been beaten off, the shield lost,
and the sword shivered, how they have re
sorted Co closer and more deadly strife with
their daggers raised on high? Thus it was
with Timothy: his means had failed, and •
disilaining any (singer to wage a distant
combat, he closed vigorously,with his pant
ing enemy, overthrow him in the.first strug-
gle, seizing from his basket the only wea
pons which remained, one single Yial,'and
one single box of pills. As ho sat upon his
prostrate foe, first be forced tho box of pills
into his gasping mouth, and then, with the
lower end of the vial he drove it down his
throat, as a gunner rams home the wad and
and shot into a thirty•tw'o pound carronado.
Choked with the box, the fallen knight held
up his hands for quarter; but Timothy con
tinued until the end of the vial, breaking out
the top and bottom of the pasteboard recep
tacle, forty-and•eight of anti•hiliuus pills
rolled in haste down red head's throat:--7,
Timothy seized his basket, and amid the
shoutsof triumph walked away. His fallen-
crested adversary coughed up the remnants
of the pasteboard, once more breathed find
was led disconsolate to the neighboring pump;
while Timothy regained our shop with hts
blushing honors thick upon him.
But I must drop the vein heroical. Mr.
Cophagus, who was at home when Timothy
returned, was at first very much inclined to
be wroth at the loss of so much medicine;
but when he heard the story ; end the finale,
he was se pleased at Tim's double victory
over Mr. Pleggit and his messenger, that he
actually put his hand in his pocket, and pull-
ed out halla•erown:
Mr. Pleggit, on the contrary, was any
biog. but pleased; be went to a lawyer, and
commenced an action for assault and batte•
ry, and all the neighborhoqd did nothing 414
talk about the affray which had taken plate,
arid the action at law which it was said would
tette place in the enguing term.
But with the exception of this fracas,
which ended in the action not bolding good,
whereby the animueity was increased, I
have little to recount during the remainder
of the time I eerved under Mr. Cophagus.
I had been more than three years with him
whim my confinement became insupporta.
ble. 1 had hut one idea, which performed
an everlasting cycle in my brain. Who
was my fillher? And I should have abet).
Boned the profession to search the world in
the hope of finding my progenitor, had it
not boon that I was without the ineantt.—!.
Latterly I had hoarded up 4111 could collect;
hot the sum was semi', much too small tor
the proposed expedition. I became avian= ,rt
oholy, indifferent to the business, and slo:(
verily in toy appearance, when a ci ircum
stance occurred which put an end to 'my
further dispensing medicine., and teft aiois
feu agora.
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