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able purchaser. We are sorry to make this latter sup 

 position, but the truth is that a large majority of all 

 the farmers in the East do not feel settled for life. 

 They purpose, if they can ever sell their farms to good ad 

 vantage, to look up a new home ; and this feeling of un 

 rest is the bane of all permanent improvement and orna 

 ment on the farm. We heartily wish our farming popu 

 lation, at least the middle-aged portion of them, could feel 

 settled. They would then plant orchards and ornamental 

 trees, and make their homes attractive. Let the good 

 work be commenced this month. 



No. 3. TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ. 



This gentleman of the old school, whose name has re 

 peatedly appeared in our pages, has elicited so much in 

 terest, that we give a brief sketch of his career, to satisfy 

 the public curiosity. He now holds the office of Justice 

 of the Peace, though he was so late in arriving at this 

 honor, that everybody calls him Tim Bunker, just as they 

 used to. He himself blushes at the title, and perhaps feels 

 insulted if any of his old neighbors call him anything 

 else. It is said, however, that his wife, in speaking of the 

 husband of her youth to third persons, does sometimes 

 give him the honors, but she is very careful never to call 

 him Esq. Bunker in his presence. 



He was bom and bred in Connecticut, and is a product 

 of her soil and institutions so unique, that it were impossible 

 for Tim Bunker to have grown up anywhere else. He 

 would have been quite another man. He lives in Hooker- 

 town, in the first ecclesiastical society, and all his ances- 



