shot the gentleman who had listened to this interesting, narration right
up to the crust of the earth again, and by a strange and fortunate
chance shot him up into the very hole which he had been digging, and he
discovered himself lying down at the bottom of the hole, feeling just as
if he had awakened from a dream; and to his surprise, heard distinctly
the voice of his wife crying out from the top, "Come, come, dear, you're
very late, and supper is getting quite cold!"

The name of the country of Skitzland translated into the vulgar tongue
is the planet earth, and America is one of the portions thereof. If we
were to look round in a circuit of a hundred miles, how many of the
Skitzland aristocracy should we find, think you? What a dropping off of
limbs and features there would be, if the letter of the law of Skitzland
were carried out! But it is absolutely certain that, this is in effect
the law of nature, which does not act, it is true, all in a moment; but
which slowly and truly tends to this. The Hindoo ties up an arm, for
years together, as a penance, thinking thereby he does Brahma service;
the limb with fatal sureness withers away, and rots. The prisoner in
solitary confinement has his mind and faculties bound, fettered and
tied, and by a law as fixed as that which keeps the stars in their
places, the said prisoner's mind grows weaker, feebler, less sane, day
by day. School children are confined six long hours in a close
school-room, sitting in one unvarying posture, their lungs breathing
corrupted air, no single limb moving as it ought to move, not the
faintest shadow of attention being paid to heart, lungs, digestive
organs, legs or arms, all these being bound down, and tied as it were;
and so, by the stern edict of heaven, which, when man was placed upon
earth, decreed that the faculties unused should weaken and fail, we see
around us thousands of unhealthy children whose brains are developed at
the expense of their bodies; the ultimate consequence of which will be,