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NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.
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December 21,1843. 17
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October, 1843. 28
NEW BOOKS.
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German without a Master:
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Lost* or Mislaid^
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DAVID DANNER.
February 8,1844. 24
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of James
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requested to make immediate payment, and those
having demands against the estate will present
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■'ll NAIL McMULLEN, Adm’r.
February 14,1844. Ot 26
jt&tereUantom
From the Whig Clarion.
SCENE IN COUNTY COURT, N. C.
As good luck would have it, three Ma
gistrates of the right kidney, ripe for fun,
were on the Bench, when the case of Da
vid Pitchpipe vs. William Noodle was cal
led. Counsellor G—, a notorious wag, af
ter looking over the papers in the case,
much after the fashion of a crow peeping
into a marrow bone, spoke for honest Da- j
vid and proclaimed his readiness for action.
Thedefendant in like mannerspokc through j
Counsellor S—, and declared himself “sem
per paratus” and at it they went, hammer
and tongs.
David Pitchpipe appeared in open Court,
a spectacle well calculated to upset the
gravity of any one who had half an eye for :
fun. At the announcement of “ready,” lie
hitched up his tight streaked breeches,
which were already many inches too short
at the nether extremity, i. e. if it were at all
desirable that they should have a reasona
ble companionship with his copperas socks.
Davi’s coat was an elongated swallow fork,
such as was in vogue thirty odd years ago, .
and flapped his heels at eacli slep. Its col
or was sky blue. His nose was flat and
wide, but of singular shortness, lipped with
purple, and witli a great inclination to turn
over back, just to see what his eyes were I
about. His visual organs were small, and
his month most particularly large, arid ful
ly two thirds thereof belonged to the right
“side of bis face. Complete the picture, by j
fancy ing him with a short bull neck foxy
hair, “unkempt by barn or bane”—that
portion of his person which he carried in
front, inordinately protuberant, and out of!
all proportion to those spindling shanks, on
which he was rash enough to practise lo- I
comotion ; and you will have David Pitch- !
pipe, song singer and master of music, as
he took his position en ctrricre of liisCoun- j
sel, who was employed and paid to light
his battles. Long might you have ponder
ed on this specimen of humanity, before
you could have divined nis true vocation,
lie certainly had any thing in him but poe
try. Appearances would have as faintly
have indicated that he had music concealed
in his penetralia. Ifpoetrvis wedded to
song, as we have somewhere read, he
would seem to have been gifted with nei
ther. But the fact was otherwise. He
had music in him ; and made it come out ;
and was paid for it; at least lie sought to
be thus paid in the present action. It was
an appeal from a Justice’s Judgement, gi
ven on the following account, drawn up in
the orthography of David himself:
Jesse Noodle to David Pitchpipe Esquire
deter, to instruksliun in sanunody 12 les
sons at six cents and quarter per lesson,
SOO 75
Counsellor G—, proved the “instruk
sliun” as charged, and rested his case.
Defendant’s Counsel then rose and stated
that his defence was, that his client, though
be had been silly enough to receive the
plaintiff’s instructions in Psalmody, was
not quite silly enough to pay for them ; and
for the following reasons: Ist. His client
hail received no improvement in music—
and therefore, lie would be paying for noth
ing. The law smiles upon reciprocity in
trades; and looks with an evil eye upon j
bargains in which both parties are not bene- j
lilted. 2d. That though the plaintiff might i
vainly fancy himself the Swan of Avon,
he was only a gander of Black Creek, and
was in fact and in truth, as utterly desti
tute of musical talent and taste—knew just
about as much of the divine art, as the
bald-faced poncy lie rode to Court on, and
no more. He was armed at all points with
the law of such cases, and had brought into
Court six books, doubled down with dog’s
ears, to show that if David Pitchpipe could
not sing himself, the law would not allow
him to leach others. Though he might
have done his best on the defendant, lie had
done what the law considers a “vain thing,”
from which he can reap no reward. The i
law recognises in contracts, a quid pro
quo ; and if Davie Pitchpipe did not render
his quid, he cannot demand his quo. In
short, that it was nudum pactum for want
of consideration : and the Court owed it to
his client, to themselves, and to the coun
try, to Kick the plaintifl'out of Court, and
send him to cobling shoes, or any other bu
siness that he may be supposed to know
something about.
During this cruel liarrangue, the face of
Davie went through various colors and con
tortions, each one giving it an uglier and
ghastlier hue. He balanced himself, first
on one pedal and then on the other—then
squared up on both, and blew his nose,
across which, we are sorry to say, he jerked
one sleeve spasmodically, while the other
was drawn with equal violence across his
forehead, over which the brine was oozing
almost in streams. Convulsively seizing
his attorney by the collar, he begged him
for God’s sake not to let that Lawyer cast
him without giving him a chance. “I’ll
shew ’em what I can do.” “Do you think,”
whispered Counsellor G—, “that you can
give us a stave or two in open Court, that
will save your credit?” “Can/? Why
I’m a regular busier at singing. I can’t
do nothing else. Only give me half a
chance, and if I don’t lay out that lawyer
flat as a pancake and that rascal Bill Noo
dle too—d a!” Here Mr. G—, after
composing himself for the effort, slowly
rose from his seat, and with great gravity
begged of the Court to allow him to intro
duce some evidence of the skill of his cli
ent before the defendant went on, alleging
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) MARCH 7 , 1814.
lie had just discovered it, since closing his
case. The Counsel for defendant courtc- |
ously assented ; and Davie took his stand j
within the bar.
Counsellor 8. “Do you intend to prove ,
his aptness to leach by the Book Debt
Law ?”
Counsellor G. “Oh no : (winking atS.)
I offer him to the Court for the purpose of
proving his claim, not by his books but by
bis acts.”
Question by the Court.. “Do you think
him a competent witness in his own case,
except under the Book Debt Law ?”
Mr. G. “I do not propose to swear him,
may it please your Worships. But Jurors
may, and in some cases must decide by in
spection. 1 can refer vour Worships to j
many cases in point. Now I can’t perceive j
any difference between seeing and hearing.
In short, ! propose that the plaintiff, David j
Pitchpipe, v, hose art and skill in his chosen i
vocation, have been sadly underrated bv
nty brother S., be allowed here in Court,:
to demonstrate vocally to that Jury, his
qualifications for what lie pretends.”
The joke now burst upon the Court, and
without exactly “giving leave,” an aequi- !
escenee was presumed by the counsel for ;
Davie, who turning round to the poor fel- :
low. shivering and ready to sink, inquired \
if he was great at Old Hundred ? “There i
you hit me,” quo’ David. “Lift up your
voice to the tune of Old Hundred, before i
this Court and Jury, Mr. Pitchpipe, and go
it!” said G. Though this was a notorie
ty, which might have intimidated any son i
of Apollo of less nerve than tiie unterrified j
David rejoiced in, this undaunted Psalmo 1
Hist braced himself up to it, and after drag I
ging from the depths of his coat pocket bis j
“Village IJarmonv,” and fa—sol—la — I
ingaft-w pi eluding notes, like scattering I
drops before a shower, having at last caught
the right key note, beating time like the
stately and regular return of a windmill’s
wings, lie launched forth into one of the
most dismal lamentations, that ever fell j
upon tiie ear of mortal man. He rose and j
fell with due discretion of emphasis and
cadence, through the long stanza, until ho
came to what may be called the “lastquar
ter stretch,” when he made a desperate
plunge and came out with a triumphant
flourish, and the air of a hero. The law
yers were in a perfect roar—two of the Jus
tices were lying on the floor in spasms of
laughter, while the third, who was Chair- I
man, had kicked over his seat, and was I
holding up by the desk before him. The ;
by standers were absolutely fanatic—and
altogether, sueb a scene of uproarious
mirth was never before witnessed in a Tem
pleof Justice.
Pitchpipe stood bolt-upright, in the mid
die of the bar, without a smile or a frown.
His innocent looks only seemed to wonder
what they were laughing at. He was evi
dently satisfied with bis effort, and no doubt
thought he had won over the Jury.
When silence by repeated efforts. had
been in a measure restored, and S—,was
evidently preparing to go on with his de
fence, G—turned to Pitchpipe—“Bray,”
The poor simpleton struck up “Bray,” and
the tumult and uproar were redoubled, U
became a perfect tempest, and ceased only
from pure exhaustion, when the victims of
cracked risibles could laugh no longer.
The case was closed without further proof.
Counsellor S—gave it up, and paid Davie
75 cents out of his own pocket, and made
his client pay all such costs as the Sheriff;
and Clerk could not remit. G—returned j
his forty shilling honorarium; and tiiat was i
the close of one of the richest scenes of frol- I
ic and farce that it was ever our good for.
tune to enjoy.
It was a great day for David Pitchpipe.
He departed from that Court-House in tri
umph.—His musical talents having now a
legal sanction, it was unto him as a diplo
ma ever thereafter.—He wandered for ma
ny years hither and yon, laboring in his vo
cation ofPsalmody teacher, in many of the
vast dominions of Rip Van Winkle. He
became enthusiastic in his calling, and ma
ny a time and oft of a stilly night, hath his
voice been heard in the solitary wilds of
North Carolina, like that of a Pelican in
the wilderness as the lone and peripatetic
trudged on from school to school with his
village harmony in his right pocket, and a
clean shirt and spotted cotton pocket hand
kerchief in the left.
David Pitchpipcs’ peculiarities of execu
tion cannot here be minutely discussed.
Suffice it to say, that our vocal hero had a
passion for galloping Fugues. It was his
pride to have the four parts brought into ac
tion in military order—First the heavy
bass moved onward imitating the big guns
of artillery; next came the Tenor, like a
corps of Grenadiers; —then the Treble
wheeled in with the brilliant execution of
light infantry; and at last came rushing by
the Counter, with the dashing spirit of cav
alry; and then all mingled together in bat
tle array, and by this united effort, they
carried themselves triumphantly through
each vanquished stanza, bringing all the
skirmishers at the close together, at a dead
halt, each in his proper position, and all
standing, ready for renewed action. —The
lookerson would wonder how it could be
possible for them come out of the melee
together. Not so the musical general.
He had previously carefully surveyed his
ground, and drilled his forces, and from a
seeming inextricable confusion, his psal
modical skill enabled him to evolve the
most harmonious and beautiful results.
David Pitchpipe inveighed bitterly a
gainst the savage custom adopted in some
churches, of the preacher dictating line by
! line, and waiting for each to he separately
j sung. He denominated it song-slaughter,
j Cutting up the following couplet ofSten
j hold and Hopkins in this barbarous way,
■ was worse, it was murder in the first de
gree:
“The lord will come, and be will not
“Keep silence, but speak out.”
Sing eaclt line separately, and see bow it
works, says Davie. He therefore exhoitcd
all congregations into which he migrated to j
abolish the practice and make him their
chorister, (which is mere a corrollary
thereto,) to pay him for it.
But the musical wanderings of David
Pitchpipe are over. Ho hath taken unto
himself a wife, on the bank of the gently
flowing Tossnot, in the great county of
Edgcomb; and already three young Pitch
pipes are climbing his knee, and catching
liis quavers, each of whom is a chip of the
old block. His old penchant for songs and |
sixpennies, still clings to him; and the last!
we heard of him, was an attempt on his
part to convert a Debating Society on Toss
not, into a Singing School. Each and sin
gular of the members was invited to sub
scribe 75 cents per quarter for his indoctri- !
nations. As an inducement thereto, lie i
proposed to throw in gratis, anew political j
and patriotic song, lately composed by
himself, beginning
“Hail Columbia happy land,”
Mis musical performances, aided bv strict
economy, have enabled Mm to purchase a
- tract of land and two negroes. In
const qni'iiee be is begining to assume the j
confident air and lofty gait of a man of
wealth and influence. It is even whisper- j
ed that hr has serious thoughts of canvass, j
ing the district for Congress. Should lie ;
succeed in bis aspirations, lie may be of j
great use in taming the wild beasts of Ep- ;
phesus that now infest the House, by lift- i
ting up the voice of song, in the midst of:
their uproars. Orpheus charmed the !
beasts into gentleness; why not David j
Pitchpipe? The harp of vorc was power
ful in calming the wild tumultullous pas- j
sions. Could not Old Hundred, thrown oft’
by the tuneful Davie, at the top of his voice,
in that modern bear garden, the House of
Representatives, effect a ‘consumation so
devoutly to be wished?’
ANIMAL M AGNETlSM. —prevision.
[Sceptical as we are on this subject, wo j
have no hesitation in printing, without 1
comment, the following case; which pro
ceeds from a gentleman well known lo us
for habits of careful observation and for
scrupulous veracity. We admit it as a re
cord of a singular fact, whatever may be
tiie explanation of which it is suscepti- \
bio] —London Spectator.
Claphatn, New Park, 18th Jan. 1844
-Dear Sir, —Puzzled by the conflicting;
statements put forward on ail sides regard
ing Animal Magnetism, I resolved, a year
or two back, to seek by personal experi
ment a solution which I had in vain en
deavored to ai rive at from the opinions of
others. The result convinced me, not on- j
ly that animal Magnetism, is a truth, but;
th-ht it is one, which, although productive of!
danger in the hands of inexperienced per- j
sons, may be turned to the happiest ac- |
count as a remedy for inanv human ills.
Have you courage to give insertion to!
the following case? It is so singular that
1 can hardly expect any one to receive it
without considerable hesitation; and yet, as
I am to pledge myself to the strict accuracy
of its details, and to the respectability of
station and high moral worth of the parties
to whom it refers, I feel desirous that it
should be widely known.
On Monday the 25th Deo’r., I magne
tized Mrs. H —, a married lady, twenty
eight years of age. She had been magne
tized at intervals during the preceding
year, altogether about six times. Upon
each occasion she had manifested some de
gree oflucidity; and in the only instance
when the experiment was tried, she had
answered readily to the action of my hand
upon the various phrenological organs.
On the present occasion I magnetized her
solely for the improvement of her health,
as she was suffering from weakness and a
pain in the breast, the results of a confine
ment eight weeks back. In other respects
her health was good.
In less than two minutes from the com
mencement of the magnetizing process, she
passed into a state of somnambulism. I
then addressed her; “How do you feel? ’
She made no answer. I repeated the ques
tion two or three times, without success;
but in a few moments she exclaimed, with
an expression of great anguish—“Oh, pret
ty well: but I shall soon be dreadfully ill.”
“When shall you be ill? now, while you
are being magnetized” —“No, in two days
time.”
“At what hour?” —“Three in the after
noon.”
“Can nothing be done to avert it?’
“Nothing.”
“What will it result from? an accident
or natural causes: —“Natural causes.”
“Can you tell me any thing that should
be done? Will magnetism afford you ser
vice?”—”Ycs: it cannot avert the attack,
but it may do much good. It will be a spas
modic attack, and after a little while it will
extend to the heart. The heart will not be
originally affected ; but the violence of the
suffering will cause it to be affected sympa
thetically, and there will then be danger.
Magnetism may remove this.”
“And will it not remove the other suffer
ings?” “No.” Then, after a pause, she
! added: “itcannot remove them entirely; but
I think it may mitigate them.”
“At what time after the attack should I
commence the magnetic passes?” In a- .
bout half an hour.”
“How long will the attack last?” From !
an hour to an hour and a quarter. It will i
be dreadfully severe; but it will not prove j
fatal. 1 shall have more of them. 1 will j
have much suffering to undergo.”
CT t?
“When will the next attack take place?” j
I cannot see.”
“What description of passes should I!
make on Wednesday, in order to relieve j
the heart?”—“Commence just under the -
heart, and make long passes to the feet.” \
“During what time am 1 to continue !
them?’ ‘About five minutes. You may
also make long passes across my back, if;
possible.’
‘How long will it be before you cease to j
suffer front these attacks?”
‘About eight months.”
“Will magnetism benefit you during
that time?’ ‘Materially.’
She still manifested much apprehen
sion and anguish. “Come,” I said, ‘You
must not be sad. lam sure that you can
bear pain with patience; and, as it will all
end well, you must not give way to des
pondency.’
‘Ahl’she exclaimed, ‘I think of mychil-j
dren, and my husband; 1 know what he j
will feel.”
I now ceased speaking for a minute or ;
two: afterwards I said, ‘you must tell me
i! you desire to say any thing more, or if
you would rather sloop!’ ‘I think you
bad better awaken me.’
I demagnetized her accordingly. She
awoke instantly, and (as on all former oc
casions) totally unconscious of having ut
terred a single word. She said, however,
that she was not so much refreshed as usual,
and that her head felt as ifshe had been
engaged in the most intense thought. To j
relieve this. 1 magnetized her fir a !
few minutes; and when she was again a
wakened, she stated herself perfectly re
stored. I then took my leave, previously
agreeing with Mr. H that no intima- j
tion should be given to his wife of what had
passed
On the following day, I saw Mr. II——;
when he stated, that during the preceding
evening his wife had enjoyed excellent spir.
its, and that she still continued in a satis
factory state. On the Wednesday morning
he told me that lie had left her in apparent
ly good health, excepting that she seemed
in a state ofdepression which almost caused
him to apprehend that Iter predilection
would bo verified. She was herself, how
ever, free from any anticipation of evil.
In the afternoon, I proceeded to her house,
intending to reach it about half-past three,
which according to her predilection would
be half an hour after the commencement of
the attack, the time at which she had sta
ted tiiat magnetism should be resorted to. —
Having, however, little expectation that
my services would be required, (since 1
was inclined to regard her forebodings
merely as the result of a momentary sad
ness,) I did not pay any particular atten
tion to punctuality, and it was twenty-two
minutes to four when I arrived.
I found her extended upon a sofa, in the
severest agony. Her pain drew from her
repeated cries, and 1 learned that she had
been seized with a violent spasmodic affec
tion.
I immediately commenced making the
passes below the heart, which she had di
rected during her somnambulism on the
preceding Monday.
“Does that give you relief?”—“Oh yes;
it greatly relieves the heart.”
I then raised her to a sitting posture, and
commenced the passes across the back.
“Olt llhatgivesstill more relief—it takes
it entirely away from the left side; but the
general pain remains the same.”
She sank, apparently still suffering most
severely from attacks of pain in the epi
gastic region, whiclt seemed to threaten suf
focation. She began, however, after 1 had
made a few passes, to experience some
short intervals of ease. During one of
them 1 asked, “At what time were you at
tacked ?”—“Half an hour or three-quar
ters of an hour before you came ; nearer
three-quarters of an hour.’
“Was it sudden ?”—“Quite. I was in
the passage, and was obliged to call on one
of the servants to help me lo his room It
seemed to suspend animation. In about
twenty minutes, or more, it attacked my ;
heart; the blood seemed to fill my head,!
and I was much alarmed. It continued j
till you came ; my sufferings were dread- i
ful ; but now the pains seem no longer to 1
affect the heart.”
She still confined to experience parox- !
ysms, which l was only able partially to •
relieve. At intervals she exclaimed, ‘Oh, j
how fortunate you happened to call ! I feel
as if you had saved me.”
She complained of fulness of the head, 1
and directed me to make two or three pas
ses over her forehead ; which gave her in
stant relief. At length, at about six or
seven minutes past four, the pains seemed
rdpidty to subside. She fell into a calm
sleep, her countenance assuming an ex
pression of perfect composure; and from
this to about twenty minutes past four, she
awakened in good spirits, and, although
greatly exhausted, perfectly free from pain.
She continued to dwell upon the “fortu
nate” circumstance of my having called;
and I left her in the full belief that the
visit had been an accidental one.
Since the above occasion, she lias been
magnetized several times ; and she now
predicts with rigid accuracy the sjate of
HI. J. KAPFEL, 1“ r inter.
! her health for several consecutive days.—
I On the 7tli of this month, she announced a
j slight attack to occur at eleven o'clock on
I tho morning of the 11th, w hich would not
! extend to the heart, and another severe at
tack at three r. M. on the 15th, in which
that organ would again bo compromised. —
On both occasions the prediction was fulfil
led even in its minute particulars.
1 may mention, in conclusion, that until
the attack above described, she bad never
experienced any indisposition in which the
heart was supposed to bo in the slightest
degree affected.
I am, dear sir, verv faithfully vours.
S.
Prophecies. —ln a letter dated 2-lth No
vember 1774, Horace Walpole, complain
ing to lii.s friends, of the wretched condition
of letters in England says:
“Don’t tell me I am grown old and pee
vish and supercilous: name the geniuses of
1774, and 1 submit. The next Augustan
Ago will dawn on the other side of the At
luntic. There will be a Thucydides at Bos
ton, a Zenophon at New York, and in time,
a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton in Peru.
At last, some curious traveller from Li
ilia will visit England, anil give a descrip
tion of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the edi
fices ofßalbec and Palmyra.”
Now, without exactly equalling Present
to Thucydides (the greatest of historians)
or Irving to Zenophon, (one of the most n
greeable,) it is certainly not a little re
markable that Walpole should have thus
prophetically placed the Greek writers to
whom the genius of the two best of this
country most approaches.
Another curious glimpse into the future,
much more remarkable than any of Bishop
Berkley’s visions about us, is found in
another of Walpole’s letters, dated May 6,
1770:
“Cut there is another scene opcnid of
a very different aspect. You have seen
tiie accounts from Boston. The tocsin
scents to be sounded to America. I have
many visions about that country, and fan
cy twenty empires and republics forming
upon vast scales over all that continent,
which is growing too mighty to be kept in
subjection to halfa dozen exhausted nations
in Europe. As the latter sinks, and the
others rise, they who live between the eras
will be a sort of Noahs, witnesses to the
period ofthe Old World and origin of the
New. 1 entertain myself with the idea of
a future Senate in Carolina and Virginia,
where their patriots will harangue on ihc
austere and incorruptible virtue of the an
cient English; will tell their auditors of our
disinterestedness and scorn of bribes and
pensions, and make us blush in our graves
at their ridiculous panegyrics. Who
knows but even our Indian usurpations and
villanies may become topics of praise- to
American schoolboys? As I believe our
virtues are extremely like those ofour pred
ecessors, the Romans, so ! am sure our lux
ury and extravagance arc too.”
Curious Grave Stone. —At Groton, Cur:
ncctieut, the following inscription is found
on a grave stone:
“On the 20th of October. 1781, four
thousand English fell upon this town with
fire and sword. Seven hundred Arn ri
cans defended the fort for a whole day; but
in the evening about 4 o’clock, it was ta
ken. The commander declined delivering
up his sword to an Englishman, w ho imme
diately stabbed him. All bis comrades
were put to the sword. A line of powder
was laid from the magazine of the fort to be
lighted to blow the fort up in tiie air.
William Hotinan, who lay not far distant,
wounded by three stabs of a bayonet in bis
body, beheld it and said to one of his
wounded friends who was still also alive—
‘We will endeavor to craw l to this line; we
will completely wet the powder with our
blood—thus will we, with the life that re
mains in us, save the fort and Ihe maga
zine, and perhaps a few ofour comrades,
who are only wounded.’ He alone had
strength to accomplish this nolde design.
In his thirtieth year lie died on the powder
which he overflowed with his blood. His
friends and seven of his w ounded compan
ions, by that means, had their lives pre
served.”
After this simple narrative are the fol
| lowing words in large characters:
“HERE RESTS WIJ.LIAM HOTMAN.
i Leap year in earnest I —There were six
j teen marriages solemnized on the ‘23d ult.,
1 by one clergyman, in the town of Burling
! ton, Vermont. This is beginning leap year
| in earnest.
A REMARKABLE CHILD.
I The Rockville (Md.) Journal, several days a
go gave an account of a remarkable child with
whiskers. The Journal of Friday last, after sta
ting that its truth had been questioned, says :
“ Although we have not seen this wonderful
prodigy we can vouch for the truth ot our state
ment, from the facts we have gathered from re
spectable gentlemen who have seen it, as well
as the attending physician. Instead of exag
geration in the description given us, we fell far
short of real truth. The child, which is now
four weeks old, healthy and likely to live, has
not only whiskers on both sides of its face, near
ly meeting under the chin, and as long and as
thick as any dandy would be proud of having,
but its forehead, back, shoulders and breast, are
completely coated with hair as thick as lambs’
wool. As remarkable as this may seem the facts
are as we have stated them. Tiie clsld to ic be
christened E=a”
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