NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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Savings' Bank? Don't you think she, and all 

 that has any thing to do with her in futer, would 

 a heen a sight hotter off in the long run?" 



"By no means, Aunt Judy ; why, the cost of an 

 education is the last thing one ought to think of, 

 but I will talk to you of this another time, for I 

 fear Miss Holt is getting impatient to hear the end 

 of our talk." 



"Oh no, I was just thinking I would ask if the 

 young lady was not blessed with common sense?" 



"Oh yes, I never heerd any body say but what 

 she is bright enough ; when she was a very little 

 girl I used to think she was proper bright, but I 

 can tell you all I've got agin her is this, since she 

 has got her education, I can't help minding that 

 she appears proud in the meeting-house, and when 

 she walks along in the road, and she ain't near so 

 free to take hold and help her mother, and if any 

 body knocks at the 'fore door,' off will come her 

 calico apron, and I could tell more sich things if I 

 was a mind to, but mind ye, it wan't so before 

 they sent her away." 



"Perhaps these things are all true, Aunt Judy, 

 but depend upon it, that as Susan has a good 

 heart, and good sense, these notions which you 

 rightly call foolish, will be of short continuance, 

 and you will yet say that Susan is a better woman, 

 a better neighbor, and a more valuable member of 

 society, than she could have been with little or no 

 advantages of education." 



At this moment little Emma Green reaching up, 

 whispered, "Mother, the great girls said at school j 

 to-day, that Susan Grey was going to be married 

 to John Wright." This was spoken loud enough 

 for Aunt Judy to hear, who exclaimed, "Mercy on 

 me ! mercy on him, I mean ! Wall, I know 'twill 

 be the undoing of him ! I can't think but he has 

 lost his senses. Now I see 'twas well his dear 

 mother was taken away from the evil to come." 

 At the same time rolling up her work without 

 knitting into the middle of her needle, a thing 

 which under any ordinary emotion she would nev- 

 er have done. 



"It would be difficult to determine," said Mrs. 

 Green, after her sudden departure, "which is 

 greater, Aunt Judy's surprise, or her desire to 

 communicate the news, and witness the surprise 

 of all she will see before reaching home. Natural- 

 ly kind and benevolent in her feelings, she is in- 

 terested in the affairs of others. Aunt to all in 

 general, and no one in particular, she cares equal- 

 ly for the good of all, but her love of gossip has 

 already grown to a passion ; slow as she is in her 

 motions, yet like the magnetic telegraph, if there 

 is any news to be communicated, it is done quick- 



ly." 



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"I've been in to see John Wright's wife," said 

 Aunt Judy, as she stopped before Mrs. Green's 

 sitting-room window, two years after the above 

 conversation. "You know I always make a pint 

 of g'»ing to see every body — I should a gone as 

 soon as they were married, if I had not had the 

 rheumatism so bad." 



"Did she catch off her calico apron?" 

 "Law no, I did not go in to the 'front door,' I 

 like to go through the kitchen and look round a 

 bit ; but she had some pretty grand looking compa- 

 ny come whilst I was there, from N . Su- 

 san did n't seem a mite put out, but would make 

 me stop to tea ; her supper was proper nice, 



and I looked round considerable, while she was 

 getting tea ready, and every tiling was neat as 

 wax. I did not think of setting down to the table 

 witli the rest of the company, but she would'nt 

 take no, for an answer. I thought I would try 

 her once, so I says right at the table, 'your butter 

 is beautiful, Miss Wright, did you make it your- 

 self?' You see I thought she would be kinder 

 ashamed to own it before them smart folks. — 

 ' Oh yes, Miss Beman, I have no girl, and I do all 

 my work,' she said. 'Most I'm afeard of Mrs. 

 Green, is that she will work too hard." 



"I sec you have changed your mind, Aunt Ju- 

 dy." 



"0, wall, I don't know but it is partly owing to 

 her 'making out' so well marrying, but she is a 

 beautiful woman, not a mite proud ; but I must go, 

 for I see my cow is waiting at the bars." d. 



Brentwood, 1852. 



Remarks. — Capital. We thank you, madam. 

 Our new Kossuth i* off and we present our best 

 bow. We trust "xVunt Judy" will consider her- 

 self demolished, and that all her nephews, nieces, 

 and "cronies o' that ilk," will surrender at dis- 

 cretion. But there are a great many "Aunt Ju- 

 dy's" still left. Ignorance and prejudice are fast 

 anchored among us. In different districts they 

 take their peculiar form and shut out the rays of 

 truth which ought constantly to stream in upon 

 the mind, about as effectually as the roof does the 

 rays of the sun. There is no stopping-place for 

 those who are willing to labor ; line upon line and 

 precept upon precept are as necessary now as 

 though the words had never been uttered before. 

 Pray let fly another arrow from your quiver, mad- 

 am; it will pierce a head of prejudice somewhere, 

 and the monster will have one the less to be 

 broken. 



For the gratification of our correspondent, we 

 will say, that her "Farmer's Wife," published 

 some weeks since, has visited various parts of the 

 Union, and often comes back to us in delectable 

 company, looking as youthful and happy as when 

 first it left its mother's home. 



For the New England Farmer. 



VEGETABLE POISONS. 



Mr. Editor : — I saw in your last number what 

 was said to be good for vegetable poisons. But I 

 think I have a remedy far before buckwheat flour 

 and vitriol, or the wild Salandine, and the scratch- 

 ing thrown in, which is as follows: — Take the 

 leaves of what is called Plantain leaf; pound them 

 fine in a mortar, then put them in a cloth and 

 press it hard until the juice is all out. Drink from 

 half to two-thirds of a tumblerful of it at a time, 

 which should be taken on an empty stomach in 

 the morning ; and the same on going to bed would 

 hasten a cure more rapidly. It is not necessary 

 to put anything on the outside, for the Plantain 

 being taken inwardly, not only kills the poison, 

 but it drives it out of the blood, and purities the 

 whole system. Applying remedies to the surface 

 may kill the poison, but at the same time you may 



