'Mean!' 'Mean!' be writ o'er him!
Wrath! canst thou de"--
Here screams of laughter, and a scampering in the entry, and the
turkey's leg tumbling into my room, ended the trick and their
cantillation. I was wishing to hear, in the next stanza, the idea that
as the tendons of the claw were worked by a foreign power, so slavery at
the South owes its activity to Northern influence. Perhaps it is due to
myself to say that the word scampering, a few lines above, has no
revengeful reference, in its first syllable, to the author of the trick.
The cause of humanity, I find, has a tendency to make one cautious and
charitable in his use of words.
They have anti-slavery meetings in the village, now and then, which I
attend. All the talent of the place, and the truly good, are there. One
evening, when the excitement rose high, a tall, awkward young man
mounted the stage, and said that he wanted to offer one resolution as a
cap-sheaf. You will infer, dear Aunty, that he was an agriculturist. He
lifted his paper high up in one hand, while his other hand was extended
in the other direction, and so was his foot under that hand. He looked
like Booetes, on the map of the heavens, which we used to take with us,
you know, in studying the comet.
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