Tru liberta is the possession ov our own rights and due respek for the
rights ov uthers. False liberta iz a desire tew possess uther's rights
and no respek for our own.
Tru wisdum iz a plenta ov experiense, observashun and reflekshun. False
wisdom iz a plenta ov ignorance, arogance and impudence.
LVII.
NARRATIF.
"Wunce as I was travling thru tioga keounty, a peddlin, selebrated
pills," I was akosted by a individual whose dress indikated, that he
was in the kolporter bisness. We met, and stopped smoltaneously, as
it war; we looked into each others phases, sarching as it war, for
a linamont, a oasus, that we nu, or had hearn tell of, but the trak
pedlar, and pill pedlar, had evidently met for the first time on
arth. The dela that was thus instituted, giv me a margin for a clus
communion with the kolporturs feturs, and stile of habiliment, and tru
to natur, tuk the chance--he was about 59 years old, was very lite in
the karkass, and wore his close very much as a methodis dus, and had
one of them kountenances that Moses was celebrated for. I felt at the
first site, that he wud do tu ti to. He komensed as follers:--"Wafarin
man, monament of sparin mersa, du yu feel as tho yu had enny intrest
in yurself, hev yu ever been tried by the fire that takes awa the
spiritoal dross, and had yur soal a flutterin agin the ribbid prisin
bars of yur body, like a kaged song bird of heavin? If yu haint, read
and peroose this trak; the ile that it kontains, will permoate thru the
resesses of yur hart, like the quicksilver of luv, and lukrubrate the
loose roaling stuns, that ly in yur jordanick pathwa." As he cum to a
stop, he bent on tu me one of those meller looks, that a tom kat gives
tu the mouse, as it lays pantin afore him, with a skin full of broken
bones, and a reachin around, he pulled from his sadle bags, a trak of
four pages, and give it tu me, with (if I ma be aloud the expresshun)
a angelik tenderness, and as he did so, he karlessly tuk a look at my
hoss, who stood quietly in the harness, a restin wun of his hine fete.
I thanked him, and sed I wud peroose the trak, an hoped to find the
ile, and silver, he spoak of. Not tu be bete in generosity, I opened
the lid of mi waggin, and selekted a box of pills, with a full kount,
and arisin from mi sete, I kommenced as follers, "respected kolportur,
allou me tu disiprookate, by plasin at yur disposal a full kount box,
of the selebrated antydiluvion pills, begot by Josh Billings (late of
this tioga keounty,) who now stans befoor yu. These pills are friendla
tu the innards of enny man, are holy made of rootes, are as saif tu
take as a fotograph, and at the same time, are as thoro as a sarch
warrant, there ar 26 ov them in a box, an tha sel, with a ful size fax
similer of the author on the lid ov the box. He tuk the antydiluvions,
and summed up as follers, "docter Billings, the perfeshun which you hav
chose, is wone ov the most anshient as wel as wone of the most humain,
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