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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



MAY ao, 1833. 



MISCELLANY. 



THE PETITION OF THE LUIUGS. 



Dear ladies ! Iiear our sad complaint, 



And pity our distress ! 

 Too long we've born our silent grief, 



''Tis time to seek redress. 



In cruel fetters bound, we plead — 



Uh, hear our (eeble cry ! 

 Your corsets vile oppress us so, 



We scarce can bear a sigh. 



■Tis in our cells the blood and air 



Indulge their warm embrace ; 

 But scarcely have they room to meet. 



While you so tightly lace. 



Our neighbors too are sorely pressed, 



And grievously complain j 

 We're forced to bear each other's woes, 



And sympathise in pain. 



The heart you know, or ought to know, 



Is pumping night and day. 

 To force the purple stream of life. 



Throughout its circling way. 



The stomach and the liver loo, 



Deserve not such abusej 

 With ceaseless care ihey aaalyze. 



And fit your food for use. 



Oh, could you see our crippled slate. 



Our languid movements view. 

 You surely would not grieve us thus. 



As thoughtlessly you do. 



And why is all this rude attempt. 



Your symmetry to ciiange ? 

 Can you correct your Maker's work, 

 Or better plans ai'range ? 



The loveliest form that beauty wears. 



Is woman fair in yoiuli ; 

 Her perfect shape taste may idorn, 

 But not amend its truth. 



Dear ladies we entreat you then. 



By all that's just in taste. 

 As you value life and health, 

 Give freedom to the waist ! 



ROMANTIC. 



' I RECOLLECT a pretty incideut, which may not 

 be uninteresting to tlie reader. A wild young 

 fellow married a lovely girl, and having been long 

 addicted to habits of dissipation, even the sincere 

 attachment which he entertained towards his wife 

 could not entirely disentangle him from its snares. 

 His occasional irregular hours, would have given 

 any but one of so pure and sweet a disposition, 

 every reason to suspect that she did not hold that 

 place in his attections which was her right ; but 

 this reflection scarcely ever intruded upon her 

 spirits. The husband was far from being cruel, 

 and really loved her, but his disposition was weak 

 and his companions eloquent, and he seemed to 

 grow worse rather than better in his habits. It 

 happened once that he was called out of town, 

 and in his haste left behind him a letter, in which, 

 to please an unprincipled friend, he had spoken 

 of his wife in terms of carelessness, if not of deri- 

 sion, and dilated freely upon his general course 

 of life. Imagine the anxiety and suspense of the 

 startled profligate, when he found himself borne 

 by a rapid steam-boat upon a journey which must 

 necessarily be of several days duration, yet re- 

 membered distinctly tliat the fatal letter was left 

 exposed and unsealed upon his wife's table. He 



recollected too, with a pang, that he had wantonly, 

 in answer to her inqtiiries, boasted that it contain- 

 ed a profoiuid secret, which he would not have 

 revealed for the world. He paced the deck in an 

 agony of disappointinentand shame. He pictured 

 her opening the letter, tm-nlng pale with horror 

 and indignation — perhaps fainting with anguish — 

 alarming the servants — flying to her father — re- 

 nouncing him forever. As soon as possible he 

 returned, but with a sinking heart, to his dwelling, 

 bracing himself up to meet the fury of an enraged 

 and wretched woman. He opened the door softly. 

 She was bending over her table busily writing. 

 A placid smile sealed her mouth with a perfect 

 beauty, and spread over her glowing features the 

 mild expression of peace and joy ; and even as 

 she wrote, the fragment of a sweet ballad fell 

 from her lips in a low music, that flows only from 

 a heart entirely at rest. The husband stole noise- 

 lessly around, and read as her pen traced her 

 gentle thoughts. 



' Your letter is lying by me. The very, vci-y 

 letter, containing the ' inofound secret.' Now 

 could I]umisli you for yotir carelessness; but, my 

 dearest Charles, how could I look you in the face 

 on your return, after having basely violated your 

 trust in my integrity, and meanly sought to grati- 

 fy a silly curiosity at the expense of honesty, del- 

 icacy, and confidence. No. The letter is un- 

 opened, and lest you should feel uneasy, I enclose 

 it to you, with the sincere love of your aflection- 

 ate wife,' &c. 



'What an angel! uttered the conscience-stricken 

 husband.' 



' She started up with a cry of pleasure — and as 

 Charles met the light of her clear, unshrinking 

 eyes, he was humbleil that he should have suspect- 

 ed, her and deeply struck with repentance at his 

 own conduct, lie thenceforth severed all ties that 

 drew liim abroad ; and if the pure and happy be- 

 ing whose influence had thus allured him to the 

 path of right had perused all his subsequent letters 

 she would have iuund nothing concerning herself, 

 save bursts of the sincerest admiration and the 

 warmest love.' 



FoNTENELLE lived to be nearly one hundred 

 years old. A lady, of nearly equal age, said to 

 him one day, in a large comjiany. Monsieur, you 

 and I stay here so long, that I have a notion death 

 has forgotten us 1 Speak as softly as you can. 

 Madam, replied Fontenelle, 'lest you remind him 

 of us.' 



Pause before you follow Example. A mule, 

 laden with salt and an ass laden with wool went 

 over the brook together. By chance the mule's 

 pack became wetted, and the salt melted, and his 

 burden became lighter. After they had passed, 

 the mule told his good fortune to the ass, who, 

 thinking to speed as well wetted his pack at the 

 next water, but his load became the heavier, and 

 he broke down under it. ' That which helps one 

 man may hinder another. 



Intercourse tvith Philadelphia — So rapid is the 

 traveling between the two cities that a gentleman 

 breakf istiug in Philadelphia arrives at the usual 

 hour of dining in the city of New York — 3 

 o'clock. We notice gentlemen, says the Daily 

 .Advertiser, transacting buisncss on change at 

 the usual hours, who left Philadelphia the same 

 morning. — JV. 1". Daily Adv. 



We have met in recent reading — we believe in 

 that excellent work, Taylor's ' llecordsof my life.' 

 — with a retort made uj)on an inflated lord, by a 

 distinguished man, who had risen to eminence by 

 his own exertion, with whom he chanced to be 

 dining. The lord piqued at the attention which 

 he excited, said to him, ' Sir, I knew your Hither: 

 be was a iii/f/ier.' ' Well, sir,'was the reply which 

 was deigned to the lord : ' I ktiew your father. 

 And the only diffi;rence between my father and 

 yours, is this. He itV/erf Jiis calves, and yours it 

 seems, brought them up!' 



AVERY'S TRI.-VI,. 



RUSSELL, ODIURNE & Co. of this citv, have in press a 

 Report of Avery's Trial, which will be published as early 

 as possible after the verdict is rendered. The r>i[)oriL-r is a 

 gentleman of the Boston Bar, who has no ini. n i. . iih. r p. i- 



sonal or political, to bias him, in the case, and \M in ; , i 



-b an ample pledge that the Report will be full. . ' . .- 



partial. The Report will include the argumcuii aj;d |jl. jdm,;, 

 of counsel, and charge to the Jury, and be accompanied with a 

 map. Orders from the country dealers and others will be 

 liromplly attended to on liberal terms. 



QCPEdilors of papers who may give publicity to the above, 

 will have a copy sent them immedialciy after publication, by 

 sending a copy of their paper to tlie puhfi^hers. m'ii 



A FINE NEW SQUASH 



FOR sale at the New England S^d Store, i\os, 51, & 5?, 

 North Market Street, 



A lew seeds of the Early Lemon S^|ua^h, liom the western 

 pan ol this State, which is'con^idc red oar- ol ilietincsi varieties 

 of suninn-r Squash cultivated, being a ucek earlier than the 

 f?coil«p or Waned Squashes, and ot' nuich superior flavor, 

 •Jrier. and somewhat resembling the Canada Squash in taste ; 

 producing abundantly till killed by frosi. Price 12A cents per 

 ^apcr. May 1 



ESSEX PRIZE POTATOES. 



A few bushels of the laujous Essex Prize Potatoes for sale at 

 Ihe .New England Seed Store, No, SI ^ a'2, North Maiket 



FOR SALE, 



THAT valuable comitnj s>-i.it and farm fomierly owned by 

 K. IL Derby and J, Crowntnshield, Esqrs,, and lately by Col. 

 Kndicott, situated in Danvers, within two niiles of Salem and 

 (iflcen of Boston, The buildings are in good repair, spacious 

 and elegant, and convenient for a genteel family, and also for a 

 farmer's, viih barns, stables, &c,, attached, 'i'here is an ex- 

 cellent garden, containing a great variety of choice fruils, 

 shrui^s and Sowers and a tasteful summer house. The farm is 

 in a high stale of cultivation, well watered and enclosed — it 

 produces lar^e crops of hay, grain, and vegetables, besides ap- 

 ples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums, quinces and cherries j 

 there is a mrsery of^ young fruit trees, and a plantation of 

 aXX) White Mulberries, 'n\e place has many advantages, and 

 is the most dtsirable country retreat in the vicinity. The build- 

 ing and garifen, with from 10 to 100 acri^s of land, as the pur- 

 chaser may dioose, are offered on liberal and accommottating 

 terms, Appy at this office, or lo AMOS KING. 



Danvers, larch 27, 1833. 



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