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Show ! THE YANKKB ALADplK. '. Aumiv began by swapping jack-knives and getting the best, ami bartering halves , of niarbUsa stud; together for whole onus. When ho grew Older, and sold berries YVhteh h picked on U,c hill' paitures, he gvtnscd tiic quart pot, to that a h trie capi-tul capi-tul was earned forward to the- next intra- sure, lip hayed hard ull suuiuht, and vu-iit to 'vvuiifig si.'h(iyl3 in wi.ijcr, and lenrni-d'tha golden rnl? uf Rt'uhmetic LaiMuionfur hiinsdf; subtraction for "1)1$ I tK'tgld.o-; nud in ail" .the games -ha held stretiy to .tlw rid-iof. L'uniiitwut .-.. "You tickle ntf, ami I'll t:r-t!u you if I can; but at till I'vunt, yuu ttvkle me." At ah iwrlyrtgo AJaddin Was considered lobe good at a bargain, which meant; that he alwuy ueet cdctl iu exchaug ug the worse for the belter; always keeping .the i blind cyu of a .horo. to the wall! when life wanted' to ifdl 'htm, nndolways looking straight nt it wheir he vvaiited to'! bny hint; ami tho approving village .shook iU head, nod said, "Let Aladdin alone v succeed." . . He grew up ,iiul "feft the villagp fur tlie world. ' " ' "He'll bo rich," said the village; with more; etithusiasm uo4 envy than any viU higo'saysofn departing, bov. "IlVll be hoWest, faUhfuf, g(.'llL,toul.', "to vAladdiii, lite whole wotld Wai lint a markvt iu which to' bny cheap and self dear. For h pi there was no beauty, no heroism,- 00 plty, no history. To hi'ai all lands and waters are alike. No Homer slugs. lor. hfm ofungtho jligeini;.liB only corses the ; wiirtl that will not blow him to Odessa. No sirens call to hitrt from the smthy' shore; lie loves the slmrp oath of a brutal boiit'h-.yaiu. i Wiih 11 l!,lile in his hand, and a quid in his mouth, he squirts about the holy places Of Jerusalem, and calculates the cost of the sepulchre. He nerntehcs his name! rtitli a jack-knife upon Egyptian obelisks, 1 by the side of the hicroglyphcd names of K-imesCifand Tutl.csK, 11 hum that shook early history with their grandeur- and the reverend echoes of the Libyan desert, that have, slept fiaco they heard the ahoiit of, Alexander's army marching to find the oracle Amnion, are nw-nkeued by the thrill whistling of Vttiikee Doodle aud Old Dan Tupker. . lie insults v Oraud J.ama, hobnobs with the Ureal Mogul, turns his back iqc VU Euqicrors, nud takes a pinch of suuff oat of the Pope'n snuff-box, He catUleah cut raw from the animal with Aby.iniaiis, chews banj? with the Arabs smokes opium with, tho Turks, und rides for a bride with tho Calmnvi Tartar. ' Then Aladdin comes home. He has turned, his. goods und his opportunities' over and over again, and they are all turned into piles of money T'.ie wise vil-, lago welcomes him, and younger pener.t-' tion?, 0 the shining exumpiu of the sui;-j ce.'.ifuf cian. "For, my deny son, just! think of ill He began with nothing, and 1 r.Ow look!" j My dear son dot-s look, und he sees' Aludditi OKiiing millions of dollaw, and of' nil ibti' doing good t.ocities, he is the chief! director: His uume is 11s good as gold. Ho has bought pictures, and books, and statues. He is housed io luxury, und lit prick hW mouth with ft stli er fork Ho' bus a home for a poet, bht be lioftsfs that1 he neve.' reads anything but the newspapers, newspa-pers, lie goes to church twice ou Sundays Sun-days nud only wAes up when the preacher re-files, and deaounccs the sinners of Sodom and those torfgh old Jews of Jerusalem. His head U lwih1 ut,d shiny with nil the itruious tlmt have hit it and glanced off. Ucvciisps baa tuods ia prayer, but forgets to opejt thent when the.' poor-box is. pusied; round acd ho goes hotna like a similurly succwJsful man. thanking God that be ts oofs other men ara; and after dinner lights eigir. tif beft.r" th 6r lo a,n easy chiir, ami tcil the cfi"il'4rcn t'o retnem- .' I ber-thst hbhesty' l the;- best policy5, and1 Ibok?lccpy..atl;'MrtV Aladtllu" throWh :- the thiek smoke ' "."! w H Ry atul by old Aladdin dies- Zhi cm- , J ventlonel.virttita are, conucd: over by. tho -1 ffi WlPrS raoi-mlng 'carriages iura .' jB cnHedontby-tlm' ttiideMtttcr's. The pa- tl pew rtgrct that they ortf Bommoriea tto ' ' iW; deplore; tho loss of tho wvercd parent, W generotw. friend, , public, spirited; citin, !' and pious jnan,4 ,Ten the prcclona'swapi K per1 orjatk-knivM, nflit.'feodel for ihir t WZ rising gctieratlous; i left.ttnder tha: iod; fc W- Th.ttars that , he .rioTcr snw tidw barfi Wt over, hlw with a soft Iu ,trd, that nulampa WtWy, .above ft,tiig's,tpmb emulate;, ana, thb fltRlj ptith wlnitsv fof whoe? breath, ii'non ' UU I16I bro?' he ras tsevcr igraiefuh Bb'w ' W-';: strews his last bed with abemonts ami ' ' violets, which Jils heel -crushed wbilo l'ufr-. And tho wen who aro. to lid .-ff r .', .rornicd upon, that ibbilel ,ati'(l -ptirsuo'' '- sliiillar success l-ardcssly asfc as they itlt , '.i '-.' their,tOtldicv-"So, old'Aladdin.js gone at 1 Hast; -will he. cut up irellW Tin) sculptor fl . carves a chenionpon. his :tOrtb4tbne,lar.d M ! -' 8ira,?a. 6lt0 their works "yo - - II ? know -thfiq 'white omoyquiot " J I Charles Lamb, with Insanity In. Ms fatuily, ' 1 itsk-yos ho reads Aladdin'4 - epitaph! .'W A1!. i Win biitiatt1'-- i! - |
