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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MAY 15, 1833. 



MISCELLANY. 



INVOCATION TO MAY. 



Wriltcn in a backu-ard l^pring. 

 My dear Madam May, I am sorry to say. 



That you seem rallicr sickly and pallid, 

 As if from some hole, just under Ilie pole, 



Your ladyship lately had sallied. 



How poets will lie, (that is, all but I,) 

 When they talk of your being so charming. 



If truth may be told, you're so backward and cold 

 That I can't get along with my farming. 



I might liken your lips to rock maple cliips. 



Which winters cold drifts had lain under. 

 You have icicle toes, and fingers like those, 



And who then can love you, I wonder ? 



Then, madam, good b'ye, to Canada hie, 

 You will get there by dog-days, I take it, 



Be ofl' in a jerk, let June do jour work, 

 For a very sad matter you make it. 



THE PARROT. 



The following anecdote of Biaham's Parrot is 

 curious: — 



"Parrots, like cuckoos, form their notes deep in 

 the throat, and show great aptitude in imitating the 

 human voice. A most remarkable instance I ntet 

 with at Mr. Braham's villa at Brompton. A la- 

 dy, who had great admiration for his talents, pre- 

 sented him with a parrot, on which she had be- 

 stowed great pains in teaching it to talk. After 

 dinner, during a pause in the conversation, 1 was 

 startled by a voice from one corner of the room 

 calling out, in a strong, hearty manner, " Come 

 Braham, give us a song !" Nothing coukl exceed 

 the surprise and adtiliiation of the company. The 

 request being repoated and not answered, the 

 parroti struck up the first verse of " God save 

 the Kltig," in a clear, warbling tone, aiming at the 

 style of the singer, and sang it through. The case 

 ■with which this bird was taugh: was eqtially sur- 

 prising with the performance. The same laily 

 prepared him to accost Catalini, when dining with 

 Mr. Braham, which so alarmed Catalini, that she 

 nearly fell from her chair. Upon his corameuce- 

 ing " Rule Britannia," in a loud and intrepid tone, 

 the chantress fell on her knees before the bird, ex 

 pressing, in terms of delight, her admiration of his 

 talents. 



" This parrot has only been exceeded by Lord 

 Kelly's, who, upon being asked to sing, replied, — 

 "I never sing on a Suuday." — " Never mind that, 

 Poll, come, give us a song." — " No, excuse me, 

 I've got a cold — don't you hear how hoarse I am.'' 

 — This extraordinary creature performed the three 

 verses entire of " God save the King," words and 

 music, without hesitation, from the beginning to the 

 end." 



before very long, he felt it all alive, and struggling 

 to escape. He took it out, and it was as lifeless as 

 before. He then laid it again upon the ground and 

 retired to some distance; in about five minutes it 

 warily raised its head, looked around, and decamp- 

 ed at full speed. — jVotes of a JVaturalht. 



We find, from the register of the Society of 

 Friends or Quakers, that, as a consequence of 

 their temperance, one half of those that are born, 

 live to the age of 47 years; whereas Dr. Price tells 

 us, that of the general population of London, half 

 that are born live only 2 3-4 years ! Aiuong the 

 Quakers, one in ten arrive to 80 years of age; the 

 general population of London, only one in forty. 

 Never did a more powerful argument support the 

 practice of temperance. — Collin .McKenzie. 



PKMAI.E IV'IT. 



A CERTAIN Reverend Divine, of democratic 

 principles, happened to be united to a lady of op- 

 posite sentiments, who was frequently exercised 

 with severe turns of the heac'-ache. Not long since, 

 after a short absence, his Reverence entered a 

 rootn, where he found his amiable consort much 

 distressed with her old co-nplaint ; on which 

 he observed to her, that he tliought she liad a very 

 weak head — and asked if she was not of the same 

 opinion. " Yes, my dear, (replied she,) if the 

 common observation is just, that the himband is tlic 

 head of the wife I most certainly think I have a 

 verb weak head." 



It is V. very remarkable circumstance, that, for 

 the space of two centuries and upwards, the throne 

 of France has never been filled by the son of a King. 



THE CORN CRAKE. 



This interesting bird, which visits the north of 

 England and Scotland in summer, and keeps up in 

 the meadows the cry of crake, crake, is well known, 

 but is not easily seen. It runs with great rapidity 

 and is loth to take wing. When found, it has the 

 instinct, iu common with some other animals, and 

 especially insects, to feign death. A gentleman had 

 one brought to him by his dog. It was dead to all 

 appearance. x\s it lay on the ground, he turned its 

 over with his foot — he was convinced it was dead. 

 Standing by, however, for some time in silence, he 

 suddenly saw it open an eye. He then took it up — 

 its head fell — its legs hung loose — it appeared 

 again totally dead. He then put it in his pocket, and 



MiDt'STB.Y. 



Man must have occujiation or be miserable. 

 Toil is the price of sleep and appetits, — oi"heallli 

 and enjoyment. The very necessity which over- 

 comes our n.aturcl sloth is a blessing. The whole 

 world does not contain a briar or a thorn which di- 

 vine mercy could have spared. We are happier 

 with the sterility, which we can overcome with 

 industry, than we could have been with spontane- 

 ous plenty and unboimded profusion. The body 

 and the mind are improved by the toil that fatigues 

 them. The toil is a thousand times rewarded by 

 the pleasure which it bestows. Its enjoyments are 

 peculiar. No wealth can procure them, no indo- 

 lence can taste them. They flow only from the 

 exertions which they repay. 



A liAZY MAJJT. 



We meet with nothing in our travels that we so 

 much despise as a lazy man — unless it be a drun- 

 ken one. We rarely see one, however, without 

 the other; and the two in one make up the very 

 essence of an object of disgust ! 



It is impossible to separate idleness and vice. 

 They are like the substances and the shadow. \Vc 

 sometimes think a wholesome remedy might lie 

 formed for lazy people, and are surely surprised 

 that our law-makers do not carve out one. 



We were coming down town to-day and over- 

 took a fellow with broad shoulders and bandy logs, 

 wearing a five-year old patched coat, ragged pan- 

 taloons, a pair of bull's hide shoes, and no stock- 

 ings. His elbows were out, and there was a split 

 in his back. His trowsers were not even two thirds 

 long enough, which exposed his ancles and part 

 of his legs which were of divers colors. One hand 

 in his trowsers pocket ; if indeed they had any 



pocket — and with the other he was blowing and 

 wiping his nose. His hat, we had forgot to say, 

 was as limber as if it were drunk, and was held up 

 on one side by a loop made of a tow string. The 

 man was not above thirty. 



Now here was a fellow strong enough to work — 

 young enough to work — and not too old lo make 

 a comfortable living, going down the strein with- 

 out one particle of comfort either in his head or 

 his heart. He was the picture of idleness, and 

 personification of misery. 



Would it not be humane to take up such a fel- 

 low and make him work? His health would be im- 

 proved by it — his comforts ministered to — his body 

 improved, and his soul made better — and what 

 would prove another blessing, he would he re- 

 moved from the observation of those who cannot 

 feel otherwise than distress, at the sight of such an 

 example of human degradation. To the honor of 

 our city such examples are comparatively rare. — 

 PhU<iili:tpttia Paprr. 



TO put out on lease for one or more years, one hundred lull 

 blood ,>a.xony and iNlerino Ewes, and two full blood I'ucks, in 

 flocksof lirty Kwcs ant! one Buck. Fifty of (lie Ewes have suck- 

 ing lambs of last winter and this spring, Ihc other Ewes yet lo 

 ycap. or only yoarliuofs and not expected to bring lambs this 

 season, the tlocks to be leased to diflerent persons, and if they 

 live at some distiince from each other it will be preferable — in 

 sha(w\ size, Oneness and evenness of fleece' they are superior 

 shei-p — are now ar.d have alwavs beefi healthy and in good 

 con,liiion — the lessee lo receive tor imiform care, attention, and 

 mainiiining them, a pari of the wool shorn yearly, and a pan 

 of tJie progeny as may be agreed. Setllemeul to be made yearly. 

 For lerms and particulars inquire of the Printer of this paper 

 previous lo 'irst of Jlay next, and it is renucstcd that no person 

 will make applicr.tion' wiio does not believe that to succeed 

 with sheep, care and aUention is ab.solutely necessary, and will 

 act up lo ills belief, aud lo the letter and sjiirit of any contracl 

 he may make. aji 10 



YEttOW LOCUST. 



"HIS day rcc.-ived at the New England Seed Store, 504 

 North Market Street, from Cincinnati, 100 pounds of Seed of 

 tho genuine Yellow Locust (Robinia^pseudoacacia) — all raised 

 the past year in the State of Indiana, where the beauty and 

 suporioritv o'' these trees have attracted general attention. 



IMav 1 



A PINE NEW SaUASH 



FORsalc.at the ?,ew England Seed Store, Nos. 51, & 52, 

 North Market Street. 



A few seeds of ilie Early Lemon Squash, from the western 

 part o.''lhis Slate, which is considered one of the finest vaiieties 

 of summer Squasli cultivated, being a week earlier than the 

 Scollop or AN'arted Squashes, and of much superior flavor, 

 drier, and somewhat resembling llie Canada Squash in taste; 

 producing abundanOy till killed by frosi. Price 12^ cents per 

 paper. 



May I 



THE NEW ENGL.AND FARMER 



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