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The Grand Bellows-Blower.
THE GRAND BELLOWS-BLOWER .
THE Grand Officers' dinner mess , as a club , was some years since rather an agreeable meeting . Bros . Meyrick , Prescott , M'Uillivray , Ramsbottom , and many excellent hearted Brethren have since fallen beneath the grim tyrant , and their places have been supplied by successors to the club certainly , but , alas ! the mantle is still suspended—it hath not as yet descended . A Grand Officer , possessed of much good humour and high reputation in his professionwas onceat a meeting of the messthe
, , , subject of a little raillery . The subject was the unmusical notes of the organ . " Why don ' t you give us a good lively tune on entering Grand Lodge ? " enquired a member of the Grand Organist . " A lively tune , indeed ! I ' m for a serious one , " saicl a second , as he energetically compressed a melting peach between the tongue and palate ; ( observe , it was September , when that delicacy was in its prime ) . A third , who held the " magnum" * to the liht before he filled his lassobserved that
g g , " whether lively or serious , it would be all the same , for the organ hacl no wind . " Some other ventured a joke , and all laughed . " Laugh on , " said the Grand Organist ; " until I can appoint a - Grand Bellowsblower , ' you never can have ' organic music' in perfection , " Such an officer , and with so euphonious a title , has never been appointed , and hence we presume the reason that the organ is neither flat , sharp , nor Smart , —in fact , it wants its " Grand Bellows-blower . "
Collectanea.
COLLECTANEA .
THE FLOWER AND THE LEAP . — " Under the sunny sky of the East , in a perfumed garden , a shrub spread its green branches , laden with flowers , which gently disported themselves in the evening ancl morning breeze . A young flower , scarcely blown , sprang out , wooingly , to the warm air . Happy in the possession of life , it played with the dew-drop , dilated its cup , and proudly raised itself on its thorny stalk . As the leaves which encircled it prevented it from abandoning itself to every
jerk of its coquetry , it chided them by saying , " Your continual neighbourhood annoys me ; your entwinings fatigue me ; and I long for the moment when I shall be free ancl alone . " " Young insolent ! our cares constrain thee , and our solicitude bears heavily on thee , " said one of the oldest leaves of the shrub . " This is so like youth ; ungrateful from ignorance , you rebel against those who protect yon , and murmur against guards , the importance of which you do not comprehend . Fool that thou art
, what would become of thee if we did not shelter thee against the fire of an eastern sun ?—if we did not guard thee against the wind which comes in blasts from the desert?—if we did not defend thee from the attacks of insects , and if we did not conceal thee from the eyes of those who would only touch to destroy thee ? " The young flower , insensible to this lesson , only made more ardent wishes for its liberty . Alas ! its premature desires were only too soon gratified . Towards evening the gardener came , ancl stripped it of all its leaves , for the com-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Grand Bellows-Blower.
THE GRAND BELLOWS-BLOWER .
THE Grand Officers' dinner mess , as a club , was some years since rather an agreeable meeting . Bros . Meyrick , Prescott , M'Uillivray , Ramsbottom , and many excellent hearted Brethren have since fallen beneath the grim tyrant , and their places have been supplied by successors to the club certainly , but , alas ! the mantle is still suspended—it hath not as yet descended . A Grand Officer , possessed of much good humour and high reputation in his professionwas onceat a meeting of the messthe
, , , subject of a little raillery . The subject was the unmusical notes of the organ . " Why don ' t you give us a good lively tune on entering Grand Lodge ? " enquired a member of the Grand Organist . " A lively tune , indeed ! I ' m for a serious one , " saicl a second , as he energetically compressed a melting peach between the tongue and palate ; ( observe , it was September , when that delicacy was in its prime ) . A third , who held the " magnum" * to the liht before he filled his lassobserved that
g g , " whether lively or serious , it would be all the same , for the organ hacl no wind . " Some other ventured a joke , and all laughed . " Laugh on , " said the Grand Organist ; " until I can appoint a - Grand Bellowsblower , ' you never can have ' organic music' in perfection , " Such an officer , and with so euphonious a title , has never been appointed , and hence we presume the reason that the organ is neither flat , sharp , nor Smart , —in fact , it wants its " Grand Bellows-blower . "
Collectanea.
COLLECTANEA .
THE FLOWER AND THE LEAP . — " Under the sunny sky of the East , in a perfumed garden , a shrub spread its green branches , laden with flowers , which gently disported themselves in the evening ancl morning breeze . A young flower , scarcely blown , sprang out , wooingly , to the warm air . Happy in the possession of life , it played with the dew-drop , dilated its cup , and proudly raised itself on its thorny stalk . As the leaves which encircled it prevented it from abandoning itself to every
jerk of its coquetry , it chided them by saying , " Your continual neighbourhood annoys me ; your entwinings fatigue me ; and I long for the moment when I shall be free ancl alone . " " Young insolent ! our cares constrain thee , and our solicitude bears heavily on thee , " said one of the oldest leaves of the shrub . " This is so like youth ; ungrateful from ignorance , you rebel against those who protect yon , and murmur against guards , the importance of which you do not comprehend . Fool that thou art
, what would become of thee if we did not shelter thee against the fire of an eastern sun ?—if we did not guard thee against the wind which comes in blasts from the desert?—if we did not defend thee from the attacks of insects , and if we did not conceal thee from the eyes of those who would only touch to destroy thee ? " The young flower , insensible to this lesson , only made more ardent wishes for its liberty . Alas ! its premature desires were only too soon gratified . Towards evening the gardener came , ancl stripped it of all its leaves , for the com-