calling to the foreman far on
high,--

Suddenly there was a tremendous run in the front office.

A maddened cow,--an infuriate, delirious, over-driven
animal,--breaking loose from the cow-herdly creature who had her
in charge,--careered wildly past the _Ledger_ building.

One would have thought that the straw paper on which that sheet
was then printed might have tempted her to repose.

It didn't.

Past FORNEY'S paper:--he was proprietor of the _Pennsylvanian_ in
those days. Those days!--when he was Warwick, the king-maker, and
carried Pennsylvania for Old Buck. Bitter were the changes in
aftertimes, and bitterly did Forney give fits where he had before
bestowed benefits. On went the cow.

Right smack into the office of the evening paper, then engineered
by ALEXANDER CUMMINGS, now held by GIBSON PEACOCK.

Rush! went the cow. Right into the next door--turn to the left,
oh, infuriate--charge into the newsboys! By Santa Maria, little
DUCKEY is down--ha! Saint Joseph! the beast gains the front
office--she faceth streetwards--she jaculates herself
outwards--she is gone.

By the door stood a Philadelphia punster.

The cow switched him with her tail; he heeded it not. His soul
felt the morning gleam of a revelation,--the flash of a Boehmic
Aurora,--

Far, far above the world, oh dreamer!--in the pure land of
Pun-light, where the silent Calembergs rise in the sunset sea.

And he spake,--

'_I see you have_ A COW LET OUT _there, and a_ BULL LET IN HERE!'

This is going through a great deal to get at a pun, says some
over-heated and perspiring disciple.

Well--and why not?

Have you never heard of the clergyman who preached an entire
sermon on the slave-trade, and gave a detailed account of its
head-quarters, the kingdom of Abomi?

And why?

Merely that he might ring it into them bitterly, fiercely, with
this conclusion:

'My hearers, let us pray that this Abomi-Nation may be rooted out
from the face of the earth.'

That was so. _Consummatum est_.

No wonder we hear so much of the sufferings and sorrows of the Third
Estate--which is the editorial.

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'Wine is _sometimes_ wine, but not very often in these days:' what it
very often is not when labelled 'Heidsick' and 'Rheims.' 'But then the
_cork_ proves i