NEW ENGLAND FAUMER. 



July 20, iSSl 



MISCELLANY 



THE LITTLE FOOT. 



My boy, as gently on my breast. 



From iofant sport Ihou sink's! to vest. 



And on my hand I feel thee put, 



In playful dreams thy little foot, 



The thrilling touch sets every string 



Of my full heart a quivering ; 



For ah ! I think, what chart can show. 



The ways through which this foot may go ? 



Its print will be, in childhood's hours 

 Traced in the garden, round the flowers ; 

 But youth will bid it le;ip the rills- 

 Bathe in the dews of distant hills — 

 Koani o'er the vales, and venture out, 

 When liper years would pause and doubt; 

 Nor brave the pass, nor try the brink, 

 Where youth's unguarded foot may sink. 



But what when manhood tints thy cheek, 

 Will he Ihe ways this foot may seek ? 

 Is it to lightly pace the deck ? 

 To helpless, slip from off the wreck .' 

 Or wander o'er a foreign shore, 

 Returning to thy home no more, 

 Until the bosom, now thy pillow. 

 Is low and cold beneath the willoH ? 



Or is it for the battle's plain. 

 Beside the slayer and the slain ! 

 Till there its final step be taken — 

 There sleeps thine eye no more to waken 

 Is it to glory or to shame — 

 To sully or to gild thy name — 

 Is it to happiness or wo. 

 This little foot is made tOago ? 

 But whcresoe'er its lines may fajl. 

 Whether in cottacre or in hall, 

 0, may it ever shun the ground 

 Where'er His foot had not been found. 

 Who on his path below has shed 

 A living light that all may tread 

 Upon his earthly step ; and none 

 E'er dash the fool against a stone ! 



Yet if thy way is marked by fate, 



As guilty, dark aild desolate — 



If thou must float by vice and crime, 



A wreck upon the stream of time .- 



Oh ! rather than behold that day, 



I'd know this loot, in lightsome play, 



Would bound, with guiltless, infint glee, 



Upon the sod that shelters me. H. F. G. 



TEMPERATE DRINKERS, 

 Listen to a statement of what yon are iloin", 

 made by mi enlightened and benevolent physi- 

 cian. — Dr James Moultrie, Jr, of C'liarleston, S.'c, 

 in a letter to a Committee of the Columbia Teni- 

 peranoe Society, says : 



' I know of no enemy to domestic bliss, compara- 

 ble to this. Its most dangerous feature is its ap- 

 jiareiit innocence, at first. I consider tlie [leace 

 of no family to be secure so long as the use of 

 distilled spirits is the popular drJnU of acommuni- 

 ty. All arc interested in its exclusion, if not for 

 themselves, at least for those whom perhaps they 

 do not know as well ns themselves. But where 

 is tlie individual, at all given to its use, who can 

 venture to jiredict bis entire immunity from its 

 danger ! Who that lias ever been subdued by it, 

 can Irom his sad experience, recall the moment 

 ^vheu he became its slave? Who that is now 



wretched in his capacity, is half conscious of his 

 chains and his misery .' Who Iiiiows wiiere to stop .' 

 where, in his own case, the line of demarcation is 

 drawn ? or is willing to accept the opinion of anoth- 

 er .' or sure that it will be given in time, even where 

 duty of friendship uigns to its deliverance ? Were it 

 not that the moderate use of it by the temperate 

 is tolerated in society, the vice of intemperance 

 w old be unknown. The evil therefore lies with 

 .nem. They are the corrupters of the morals, and 

 the destroyers of the piosperily of ll e community. 

 The ' proximate cause' of drunkenness is lempcr- 

 anct. The instigators to intemperance are sober, 

 who, for the gratification of a minute, pay a iioinuy 

 to the vice. The tempters to the sin, are those 

 who use it in moderation. Its subsists upon the 

 temperate. Its victims are among them. They 

 cause it — they support it — they propagate it — they 

 subseribeto it privately, publicly, by compact and 

 by personal contribuiion. The remedy must there- 

 fore be applied le :he source of evil. — The efforts 

 your society, it appears to me ought to be aimed 

 at them. And lie shall truly deserve to wear the 

 civic wreath, who shall be so fiirtiiiiate as to point 

 out the means, by which the temperate in the land, 

 can be brought to a final, if not a consentaneous 

 determination to relinquish the use of it.' — Jour- 

 nal of Humanh;/. 



From Uie -Salurdiiy Evenhig Tusl. 



ANECDOTES OF A MONKEY. 



Many pranks have been recorded as being the work 

 of that most inimitable imitator, the monkey- It has 

 been my desire to add a few anecdotes to those upon re- 

 cord. The following were related to me by a gentleman 

 from St Domingo, who was the owner of the animal of 

 which I am about to speak. 



Jl few of tlie fcuts of Jacho—a favorite Monkey. 



The cook was one day very busy picking chickens and 

 preparing them for roasting. Jacko, seated on the win- 

 dow of the kitchen, paid particular attention to all of 

 these operations. No further notice was taken of him 

 till ne.\t morning, when he was found diligently rolling 

 in the ashes four small ducks, which he had picked and 

 skewered, secundum artem. 



His principal amusement was to sot dogs to fightin<'. 

 Sometimes, whilst walking on the roof of the house, he 

 would perceive a strange dog on the plantation. He 

 would immediately give a shrill cry, with which the doirs 

 of the house were so well acquainted, as immediately to 

 flock around him. The whole gong, with Jacko at tiieir 

 head, then sallied out to encounter and drive away the 

 intruder. So soon as the combat was engaged, Jacko 

 would run to some small hillock, some fence, or some low 

 tree, and there testify his joy by a laughter and chat- 

 tering, interrupted only from time to time, to hiss the 

 doirs on. 



Having once, while accompanying his master on a visit, 

 seen a gentleman's son take his lesson in writing, Jacko, 

 the moment ho reached his home, flew to the ink-pot, 

 daubed his paws well with the liquid it contained, and 

 proceeded to draw his pot-hooks and ladles on a white 

 bed quilt, which unfortunately was near him. 



He was often seen in the garden, digging up plants, 

 and again burying them root upwards. 



.Some masons were busy repairing the ceiling of the ', 

 apartment in which Jacko with his mistress usually pas- 

 sed the night. Jacko eyed their work with signs of great 

 pleasure, and immediately running to the milk house, he 

 paddled up the butter and cream cheeso together, and 

 then plastered the wall with this mixture, for several 

 feet. ^ j 



The exploit in which he showed the mrst instinct was 

 in fishing. He w^as several times seen occupied in this 

 employment — his method was this:— He placed a small 

 basket in the water near the edge of the brook. After 

 making it fast by piling stones behind it, he would go 

 about ten yards above the basket ; there getting into the 

 water and agitating it very violently, he would suddenly 

 leave this occupation ; then running to the basket would 

 smartly throw it upon the grass to a distance from the 

 water. In this manner he never failed to obtain numbers 

 of the small fry which were driven into the basket by his 

 agitation of the water. C. G. 



I Valuable and Cheap Land — for Sale. 

 I The subscriber oilers for sjle, 1-1,000 acres of choice 

 j Land, situated in the town of Pinckney, county of Lewi* 

 and slate of New York. Some of the land is improved 

 and under cultivation. The country is remarkably heal- ' 

 thy, being entirely free from the fever and ague and from 

 the common bilious fevers which often afliicl the towns 

 upon Lake Ontario, this town being 13 miles east of tho ' 

 lake. The soil is principally a sandy loam, much of it 

 coveiei: with rich black mould. The timber is chiefly 

 Sugar Maple, Black Ash, Butternut, Beech, Elm, &c. 

 The land yields first rate crops of Grass, Rye, Oats, Bar- 

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 and Corn may be grown. To those wishing to obtain su- 

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 The produce of pasturage and hay from an acre of this 

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 tVoni the same quantity of land in any other of the Black 

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 there being out few lots which have not dui able running 

 streams upon them. The land is well adapted to Orchard- 

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 Stock of all kinds may be disposed of with the least possi- 

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 purchasing at the very doors of the farmers, and paying 

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 to five years' credit for payment, in annual instalments, 

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 Perk, Grain or Grass Seed, lor which products ho will 

 allow the highest cash prices. The title lo the land M 

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 purchasers. Pei-sons desirous of purchasing will please 

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 of Jeiferson.Stateof New York, or to D.win C.i.N field, 

 Esq. on the lowu. JAMES H. HENDERSON. 

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Tills astonishing fleet horse was raised in Montreal, is 

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 around the trotting course. Long Island, in 2 minutes, 34 

 seconds, and was offered publicly to match against any 

 horse that could be produced. It is considered unneces- 

 sary lo say more, as his qualifications are too well known 

 to he doubled. 



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