Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — SHORT SAWS WITH LONG TEETH. [ARTICLE]

SHORT SAWS WITH LONG TEETH.

“I love j ou for yourself alone,” as the blackbird said when he swallowed the gooseberry. This is the commonplace expression of false friends, who, while they mare the utmost use of us even to abuse, profess the most unbounded admiration of and regard for US. ~ ~ ~:~ “That’s neither here nor there/’ as the grow said when an egg fell out of her nest. How many of us have to lament the spoiled life, the wasted opportunity for good, the lost time, the possibility that was in our life and went out of it, the wrectolthisimage God made! “I’ll never do that again,” as the monkey said when he fell train the top of the mango tree and broke his back in the fall. • There are many people who take credit to themselves for abstention from evil when they are not able to commit the evil they renounce. The sick man says “I tear myself away from the world;” the poor map, “I deny myself the luxuries of life;” the old man, “I abstain from the follies of youth; the blind man, “I take no pleasure in riotous living;” the deaf man, “I make it a point of never listening to the whispers of scandal.” “Oh, you swindler, you have a stone inside you!” as the wasp said when be ate into the plum. Few people are more virtuously indignant than the cheat when he finds himself outwitted. “This is a thing that ought not to be permitted,” as the fox said when he found the henroost enrnty. The assumption of virtue is common to mankind, but none assume it so loudly as those who have the least right to it. By such people any. shortcoming on the part of others is made a subject of complaint. “You’ve got a bee in your bonnet,” as the hive said when the old lady came to look at the honey. _______ While it is adherent weakness of human nature to love and find fault without reason, in none is that weakness so fully developed as in those who are the most guilty of “little sins.”