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ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 597

in etiquette—but not in reality. ‘‘Montague’s men are al-
ways thrust from the wall, and their women to the wall.’’
Can we believe that the white watch made the black watch
turn out, merely for the sake of a warm hammock! If that
be so, I ean only say, ‘‘deticate pleasures to susceptible
minds!’*

But that is not the argument. The woman herself says,
that there were no young ones that time, because they fit all
the time. If they fit what more is wantedt One of the coun-
sel asked whether many races of animals were not propagated
in strife, and he instanced cats; but he might have taken a
atill nobler instance, that of the Sabine women, who seuffled
with the Roman men, yet bore them children, All history,
sacred and profane, is full of children begotten in violence.
There are countries where 4 scratched nose is a sign of vic-
tory rather than defeat; and where a woman who surrenders
her favors without resistance, is like a general who sur-
renders a strong place without a shot. Say then that one
seuffled like Boreas, the other like Zephyr—still it eomes to
the same thing; for Zephyr, mild as he was, got Flora with
child, and Boreas with his Orythia could no more, except
that he got twing with wings on them, The terms in which
Ovid makes Flora give her evidence, are so applicable to the
case of our Luey, when she speaks of her black lover, that I
am tempted, aa well for that, as to show I have not forgotten
my Latin, to repeat them.

Vor srat, Zephyrus me conspecit, abibam
Insequitur, fugio, fortior ile fuit,

‘What is there then but the love of the marvelous that
should induce us to depart from the ordinary laws of na-
ture to come at the conclusion, that this child belongs to a
black, rather than to a white man? There was no difference
but in the manner; and in such matters every man will have
his way,

Dick can neatly dance a jig;
But Tom is best at Borees,

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