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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



AUGUST 16, 1^37. 



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(From the Lady's Book.) , 

 THE SEASON OF FLOWERS. 



BV MRS HARRISON SJUTH. 



Glad Earlh a verdant altar rears, 



Where spring and all lier train appears ; 



Iler balmy airs— lier sunny hours— 



Her freshening dews— her od'rous flowers ; 



Thence, fragrant exiialations rise, 



Like holy incense, to the skies. 



The early birds in choral lay, 



By love attuned, their homage pay, 



Soft winds harmoniously unite 



To breathe forlh accents of delight; 



While streamlets bursting winter b chain. 



Seek their far way, o'er mead and plain, 



Murmuring, as they glide along, 



A cheerful and melodious song. 



Shall things material thus proclaim 

 The wise Creator's gracious aim ; 

 And njan be mute — nor fervent raise 

 His voice in gratitude and praise .' 

 Oh, shall not human bosoms swell, 

 With raptures, language cannot tell ; 

 In sympathetic ardor glow, 

 With all above, and all below. 

 And in this gladsome season vie, 

 'With water, air and earth and sky .' 



Say, shall not intellectunl powers 

 A purer incense wait, than flowers .' 

 And pour forth tones of ho!iei*love 

 Than warbling soog.-ters of the grove ? 

 Shall lowing herds and bleating flocks. 

 Echoes from the hills and rocks, 

 Flowing streams and gushing fountains. 

 Winds among the woods and mountains, 

 Make music of a sweeter kind. 

 Than the rich melodies of mind .' 



Forbid it every nobler power 



That constitutes the itnmortal dower, 



Which to mortals has been given 



For liighest purposes, by heaven. 



L>et ardent souls, on wing sublime. 



Soar far beyond the bounds of time, 



With universal nature join 



In hymning goodness so divine, 



Lenvuig created things behind, 



To ,i<Jore the uncreated mind I 



of weeks the careful .slieplierfls Ijave been as inucli 

 exposed as Iiis Majesty's mail guards, when the 

 country is hlockaded, feedin;; weak ewes, [licking 

 up deserted lambs, whicli they carry to their mas- 

 ters' 01- to their own houses, where they are nur- 

 sed as carefully as orphan children, who are rear- 

 ed from necessity on the pan and spoon. 'J'lie 

 slow hound noti<'ed what was going forward, and, 

 though fou. teen months have elapsed, since she 

 suckled pup.s, strange to s.\v,inilk returned to her 

 in such quantities, that she ha.s already been the 

 means of succoring and saving more than sixty 

 wooly nurslings, tliat tnight otherwise have per- 

 ished. Niglit and day she may be seen lying on 

 sheep skins before the kitclien fire, with half a 

 dozen land^s around her, distinguisliing the weak 

 from such as are somewhat stronger, and devo- 

 ting to them the most assiduous attention. Re- 

 peatedly when some of the invalids have got a 

 little round, they have been re-conveyed to the 

 hill side, with the view of mothering them ; near- 

 ly as often the bitch, when left free, has not only 

 sought out and distinguished lier former nurslings, 

 but carried them home again with the greatest 

 care, although the distance is not more than a 

 mile. After the servants have retired to rest, Mr 

 M'Craken, while reading in the parlor, sometimes 

 lifts his candle, anil visits the kitchen, to see how 

 his woolly family, with their hairy inirse, are get- 

 ting along. 'J he lambs, when they see the light, 

 are ))ainfully aflected, bleat piteously, and run 

 about the floor ; but their guardian soon puts ev- 

 erything to rights, by poking them gently with 

 her nose, back to their former position. Al- 

 though a more remarkable circumstance, has rare- 

 ly, if ever, fallen under onr notice, and although 

 some may affect incredulity, there are lots of wit- 

 nesses, whose testitnony proves it to be true to the 

 letter. — Dumfries Cou. 



ing, dividing, subdividing and mapping out ' the 

 morals' of America, to'adopt her own favorite 

 jaigon, not as they appear to her or any other 

 chance speculator, but as they ought to figm-e ac- 

 cording to the principles which she imbibed be- 

 fore her visit, and the crude medittition of which 

 probably amused her outward voyage. There is 

 something infinitely ludicrous in the vanity and 

 presuniption w'ah which this la<ly squares the cir- 

 cle of .American morals, and dis-overs the longi- 

 tude of the imjiending civilization of a new world. 



"The consequence of this dogmatical arrogance 

 is merely this: — throughout ftliss Alartinenu's 3 

 cumhcrotis vojutnes, her facts and her inferences 

 invariably contradict each other. But this is not 

 surprising, for she found her facts on her arrival, 

 and .she brought hei inferences with her ready 

 made. We do not doubt the accuracy of her ■ 

 facts, for they always tell against her conclusions ; 

 we doubt not, thcrefiire, she may be depended 

 upon." 



A htte French writer says, that in Great Hrit- 

 ain, the animal power is eleven times greater than 

 the manual power, whilst in Fnmce it is only four 

 times greater ; hence, French laborers receive 

 fro'ii animals, only one third of the labor yielded ' 

 them in Britain. Gretit Britain constjtries three 

 times as much meat, milk and cheese, as France. 

 The number of liorses is ingeniously calculated 

 for the following countries : — In Great Britain, 

 100 ; in Switzerland, 140 ; in Prussia, 95 ; in 

 Sweden, 145 ; in Hanover, 194 ; and in France, 

 79. 



ANOTH.'^.K WONDSR. 



Startling as the follow in^; facts may a|ipear, the 

 reailer may rely on their pertv'-et authenticity: 



The farm ufAirdre,. parish ok'' Ki.'kbeau, which 



contains almost every variety of soil, incluiling a 



acctivii of the giant Crifiel, has been for some 



time in the natmul possession of the proprietor, 



H. A. Oswald, Ksq., of Auchincrui ve. Since a 



■^riner tenant emigrated, \irdre has been skilful- 



','■ ,„.<uaged by our friend, Mr M'Crdvcn, who, 



,- oti'er besti.d, has a favorite female slow 



hound, which wasgifte.l by MrMurry of Brough- 



on to tUe late Rhhard Oswald, Esq. of Cavens. 



..■l.'o present, as the reader know.-, has been a 



,„ost disiistrous lambing season, and, although 



Kirkbcaii is a mil.l coast parish, even there the 



loss of Stock has been very great. For a number 



Miss Martineau. — The London Times, in an 

 able cri7i?we upon ftliss Martineau's "Society in 

 America," has the following, among other pointed 

 remarks: — 



" Miss Martineau, forsooth, is a very great sage, 

 and seems to have been far more intent on com- 

 municating to her English her own impracticable 

 schemes for what she esteems the amelioration of 

 her species, and the emanciptition of her sex, to 

 favoring them with a lively and accurate id(!a of 

 the life and country of their American neighbor.s. 

 The parade of what is called philosophy, in this 

 book, is indeed one of the most preposterous and 

 burlesque exhibitions that we have met with. 

 * * # * * 



"Amidst the ruins of Balbec and of Antioch, 

 Vohmy was not so magisterial and dogmatictil, as 

 this lady in the streets of Now York and New 

 Orleans. She dcnibts nothing, she decides u))on 

 everything. She explains how everything occur- 

 red, and announces how everything must happen. 

 With no learning — as we suspect with very limi- 

 ted readings — with no experience of liumun na- 

 ture, d(-rivod either from books or men, armed 

 only with the absurd notions of an arbitrary 

 scheme of verbiage, which she styles phihiscqihy, 

 and which appo;u-s to be a crude inixturi! of ){en- 

 thamism, politit^al economy, and sans culolte mo- 

 rality, she flurries over the vast regions of the U. 

 States, in half the time that V«hiey spent in Da- 

 mascus and .\leppo, analyzing, resolving, delin- 



What would a fine lady say to see such a meal 

 as the following, laid before her at six o'clock in 

 the morning.' It is a tavern bill from a landlord 

 in the good city of Chester : 



" Breakfast and provisions for Sir Godfrey Wal- 

 ton, the good lady Walton, and their fair daugh- 

 ter Gabriel ; three pounds of saved salmon, two 

 pounds of boiled mutton ami onions, three slices 

 of ])ork, six red herrings, six pounds of leavened 

 bread, one choppin of meat, five choppins of 

 strong beer." — Manners and Custo7ns of the loth 

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