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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



JANUARY 15, 1S34. 



MISCELLANY. 



WINTER. 



EV T. (•. FESSENDEV 



The storm, which harasses the sky, 



Is rattling at my casement. 

 And shakes my rustic domicile 



From chimney-cap to basement. 



Although a boundless waste of snow 



The lurid landscape blanches, 

 Still frozen cataracts descend 



Like Alpine avalanches. 



Ten thousand thousand gibbering sprites 



In tides serial sailing, 

 Through everlasting wintry nights 



Are flickering and wailing. 



But still, within my humble cot, 

 Where hearts are link'd together, 



The Social Powers give golden hours, 

 And make the storm fair weather. 



Elysian fields and sun-gilt skies 



Imagination sketches, 

 Fresh flowers and fruits of Paradise 



The Fairy Fancy fetches. 



TO THE PAIR SEX. 



The following advertisement appeared in a re- 

 cent number of the Cordis!) Guardian : — t Wanted, 

 as a better half, a lady of moderate fortune, say 

 five or six hundred pounds, of small stature, gen- 

 teel proportions, neat in Iter apparel, and of mod- 

 est reserved manners, of the age of thirty, but not 

 particular to five years up or down ; blue eyes 

 would be preferred ; but not nice about tiie other 

 features, provided the countenance is pleasing. 

 She must not be a milliner, as milliners are too 

 much given to showy dress and flaunting demean- 

 or ; nor must she be a confectioner, as confection- 

 ers are too apt to assume captivating looks to 

 attract young customers ; neither must she have 

 been accustomed to a draper's shop, for the habit 

 of extolling goods above their real value, though 

 a very common practice, is very apt to bring on a 

 habit of exaggeration, and, ultimately, of lying. A 

 schoolmistress will he preferred, as she will save 

 the expense of sending to school, and herself 

 ' teach the young idea how to shoot ;' she must 

 be fond of music, for music is the very element of 

 tender souls ; if acquainted with music would be 

 preferred, but she must not make mouths when 

 she sings. She must not have affected ways in 

 eating or drinking, now put on by so many ladies, 

 particularly in sipping tea or wine, in which some 

 now imitate the goose, exalting their lips for the 

 purpose of showing their snowy necks. The per- 

 son making this inquiry is a man of a limited for- 

 tune, of the middle height, with a sallow com- 

 plexion, but not a disagreeable face, between 

 twenty and fifty years of age. Communications 

 may be left at the Cornish Guardian office, direct- 

 ed to X. Y. — No jilts need apply.' 



A CURIOSITY. 



In the Cabinet of the Western Reserve College, 

 N. Y. is an old wrougbt-iron horseman's spur, said 

 to have been found by lead miners, on the banks 

 of the Missouri, 15 feet below the surface. It is 

 nine inches long; the stein from the bow to the 

 end of the burr, 5 inches; the burr 4 3-4 inches in, 

 diameter ; the workmanship shows a high slate of 

 the arts. It has been shrewdly suggested that this 

 is the spur, which the Indian used, who as tradi- 

 tion says, rode the last of the mammoths across the 

 Big-bone-lick and was never heard of afterwards. 



From (lie Susqudiannuh (Pa.) Register. 

 WOLVES. 



There appears to be an unusual nuinberof wolves 

 in our country, and very many sheep have been 

 killed by them. Every exertion should be made 

 to destroy those animals ; and the maimer of pur- 

 suing them in the " far west" Is almost certain of 

 being successful, 



It is usual for wolves to go in gangs, generally 

 composed of the mother and all the whelps which 

 she lias brought up. It is ascertained how many 

 are in the particular gang ; and when there is a 

 good tracking snow, a party of hunters is made up 

 of twice the number of the game, who assemble 

 each with his gun and knapsack of provisions. 

 They then draw lots ; two lots being of number 1 ; 

 two of number 2, &c. and follow the gang which 

 generally is disposed to keep as much as possible 

 together, and separate only when they find them- 

 selves hard pressed. At night the hunters encamp 

 on the track, and are ready to start again in pur- 

 suit at the first dawn of day. Their object is to 

 prevent the wolves from eating. At length one 

 wolf thinking his chance of escape better alone, 

 diverges from the rest. The two hunters who 

 drew the lot number 1, take after him ; and so on 

 for every wolf that separates from the rest. Thus 

 in a few days the wolves are all tired out and des- 

 troyed. An active man can by pressing on his 

 track tire out the stoutest wolf. 



We have heard it mentioned of one of our west- 

 ern woodmen, who had several of his sheep killed 

 by a very large wolf, which had also done some 

 mischief among his neighbors' flocks, that he de- 

 clared he would have the wolf's scalp before he 

 was a week older ; and havi;,» prepared a knapsack 

 with a week's provisions, he started on the animal's 

 track. He followed it steadily, up hill and down 

 dale, through windfalls and thickets, and across 

 swamps and marshes. For three days the animal 

 kept about his old haunt, travelling over the town- 

 ship and into the neighboring ones, and then back 

 again, turning on his steps and seeking the thick- 

 ets from which he was first started ; but nothing 

 could check his indefatigable pursuer. 



Wherever the wolf went, the hunter was on his 

 trail, and kept so nearly up with him, that he found 

 little time to lay down in the day, and at night he 

 was too tired to look out for a sheep. When night 

 fell his pursuer made a fire, and spreading a few 

 bushes under him slept till morning; at first dawn 

 he was again on pursuit. On the third day, the 

 wolf finding no rest near home, started off, across 

 the country, away to the south. But this would 

 not do ; wherever he laid down, during the day, 

 he was soon roused by his pursuer. In the course 

 of this long chase, the hunter in crossing roads, 

 and passing through farms, was frequently hailed 

 by persons whom he saw, with. " Why, stranger, 

 what are you after .-" His reply was, " I am af- 

 ter a wolf's scalp, and I guess I'll get it before I 

 sleep in a house ; but I hav'nt time to talk now." 

 On the morning of the fifth day, he said to the only 

 person whom he saw, " I'll have the tarnal varmint 

 before night, I know ; " and he was as good as his 

 word ; for in the afternoon the wolf exhausted by 

 famine and fatigue, and unable to crawl any further, 

 submitted to his fate, and the hunter put the long 

 sought for scalp into his knapsack. He then went 

 to the nearest house, where he found himself just 

 fifty miles, in the nearest way he could go, from 

 his home. 



SI.VUliL.AR CIRCUMSTANCE. 



In the course of last summer, a strange circum- 

 stance happened to a shepherd, in the service of a 

 fanner at Lochearnside, Perthshire. Having one 

 morning, made bis usual round to inspect his flock 

 lie laid himself down in a sleeping posture to ease 

 bis weary limbs. Whilst lying in this position, 

 with his eyes shut, lie was surprised to feel some-' 

 thing alight on his thigh, and opening his eyes, 

 saw, to his no small astonishment, a carrion crow 

 walking along his body towards -his head, fully de- 

 termined, as he conceived, to peck out and feast on 

 his eyes. Our shepherd, more cautious than gen- 

 tle, moved his hand so slowly forward that he 

 succeeded in catching the crow by the foot, and 

 instantly killed it against a stone which happened 

 to be near him. — Stirling paper. 



NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST, 



JUST published and fpr sale by GEO. . BARRETT, Nos.- 

 31 & 52 North Market Street, The New American Ok 



ciiARiiisT, or a treatise on the cultivation and management o 

 JFruits, Grapes, ( Ornamental Shrubs, and Flowers, adapted lo 

 cultivation in the United States. 



This is recommended to the public as a treatise well worthv 

 a place in every farmer's library, containing- an account ot ili'e. 

 most valuable varieties of fruit, and the remedies for the mala- 

 dies to which fruit trees arc subject from noxious insects and 

 other causes. Also the varieties of Grapes with their Diodes 

 of culture, &c. Price $1 ,-d. JA'J. 



AMERICAN HEARTH RUGS. 



JUST received at 414 Washington street, a fresh supplv of 

 Hearth Hags, from the Tantl'ville Factory, manufactured ex- 

 pressly for the subscriber — they are superior in beauty and fab- 

 ric to any imported. E. S BREWER. 



N. B. E. S. B. will receive orders to manufacture Rugs to 

 match any carpet. isecptjl nov23 



CASH STORE. 



THE subscriber offers for sale a large stock of English and 

 American Goods at reduced prices, aiming' which aro 

 Bales Black Bombazetle of good quality, at 1^2 l cts. per yard, 

 fireen " " " " ' ; •' '* 



'• Blue and Brown Camblels of good quality, at 1-A cents. 

 " Scold. Plaids, " " " ■• 



•'' English, Sup. .Sc fine 6-4 Merino from 3s. to 8s. per yard. 

 " French " " '.' " " $1 to $"2 " 



In addition to the above, the subscriber offers a more exten- 

 sive slock of Woollen, Linen and Cotton Goods, than can be 

 had at any other Store in the City, at prices proportionably 

 low to those above named. 



E. S. BREWER, 41 1 Washington Street. 



SEED OF THE TRUE COCKSPUR THORN. 



Being the same as the Hedge of J. Prince, Esq., Jamaica 

 Plain, as yet perfectly free from all insects, and an elegant 

 Hedge — la years old. One dollar per quart. n'-lt 



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