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THE perplexity of the Captain, in the late
transaction on account of his servant, may serve to
put those in mind who travel with a waiter, not to
go much about at the election seasons, but avoid
them as you would the equinoxes. It might not be
amiss, if, for this reason the times of electing members
for the several bodies were put down in the almanac,
that a man might be safe in his excursions,
and not have an understrapper picked up when he
could not well spare him.

I mean this as no burlesque on the present generation;
for mankind in all ages have had the same
propensity to magnify what was small, and elevate
the low. We do not find that the Egyptians, though
there were lions in the kingdom of Lybia, not far
distant, ever made a god of one of them. They rather
chose the cow kind, the stork, and the crocodile,
or the musk-rat, or mire-snipe, or other inferior
animal, for an object of deification. The Romans,
and the Greeks also, often worshipped small matters.
Indeed we do not find amongst any nation, that the
elephant, or rhinoceros, or elk, or unicorn, have been
made tutelar divinities. As,

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Cannons shoot the higher pitches,
The lower you put down their breeches.