[B2] "Flib's Note Book," Spirit of the Times, Jan. 8, 1842

FLIB'S NOTE BOOK.—In a recent discussion on Iowa eloquence, our Flib produced the following, as a specimen of what is usually said in those diggins in case of an assault and battery upon a child. "How bewtiful," said the lawyer, "it is to see an infant child a-growing up into the full blown individual.—All the symparthies of its little chickabiddy soul a-buddin' forth into a-a-full grown rooster of feelin' as I might say. Now, gentlemen of the Jury, when we take all this into consideration-when we concatenate the internal combinations of the human frame, into a general congulated conglomeration of consistencies, can we, aye, can we hesitate to pronounce that darned Yankee schoolmaster over yonder, both individually and collectively, guilty of spanking the widder Snobbses bewtiful offspring, Jackey Snobbs, almost to death, and bringin' him to the werge of despair, and all that, as might say."