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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[The following nervous lines were received some weeks 

 since, and should have had an earlier insertion had 

 they not been mislaid, and but lately reclaimed. 

 We hope they may produce some effect in scouting 

 out of civilized society, a custom, which is nothin 

 better than a cruel, bloody and disgraceful remnant 

 ef vandalism.] — 



FOR THE NEW EXGT.AND FARMER. 



THE DUELLIST. 

 As dies a fool, the duellist dies, — 

 The laws of God and man defies ; 

 Ghastly he quits this mortal stage, 

 R,eplete with malice, guilt and rage ! 

 O Death, we leave him to thy care : 

 Such fools Columbia well may spare ; 

 As none but such will thus be slain. 

 Let men of sense no more complain.* 

 Blood-lhirsly coward beasts of prey. 

 In darkness sneak, and shun the day ; 

 So murderous Cain now skulks behind, 

 The scorn of every noble mind. K. 



*Suppose a rogue, (or once is slain. — Franklin says, — 



" A rogue hanged out of a family does it more honour 



thau ten that live in it." 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER- 

 STANZAS, 

 Oil seeing a young lady in a melancholy stale of mind 

 from some cau.se unknown to tier friends. 

 Child of melancholy, say 

 Why this sadness and dismay ? 

 Has some adverse wind assail'd thee 

 Travelling through this dreary land ? 

 Hast thou felt the shafts of envy, 

 Shot by some malignant hand ? 

 Or has slander's poisonous dart, 

 I'ierc'd thy honor to the heart ? 

 Hast thou felt its deathful blast, 

 The future cursed in the past ? 

 Tell me, child of sadness, say. 

 Dost thou court the grave's repose ? 

 Dost thou long for death to hide thee, 

 i'rom the world and all its woes ? 



Care worn mortal, stop and ponder 

 Ask thy conscience, ask with fear, 

 Is there no tribunal yonder. 

 Where thy spirit must appear ? 



W\ ! the grave can never soothe 



The storms that wreck thy wretched breast. 



Fly to God and he will give jou 



Solid joy and lasting rest. 



MORTIMER. 

 Boston, 1824. 



Singiildr Circii instance. — The followina: tx- 

 traordinary circumstance has been comninnicnl- 

 ed to us, and authenticated h^' the most respite- 

 table authority : A ferv days ag^o, at Kemhacl: 

 house the attention of tlm servants was excite <! 

 by the appearance of a common lUck, at the 

 kitchen door, qn.ickiii"' or rather screiimin»- in 

 a most unusual manner. — It was known to h;M'p 

 been hatching, and hunger was supposed to he 

 Ihe oc'-,asion of tlie chimor. Food wns accord- 

 ingly thrown cut to it hut instead of ratin;;, it 

 seized the servant ajirl hy the wprun, and pi:l;od 

 it wUh some force. The e:irl, though prnii::'i!v 

 surprised at the familiarity of the animal, siuil 

 the door and resumed her work. The poor 



dnck, however, was not to be repulsed in this 

 manner, and continued beating at the door with 

 its bill and vvinsfs, till it attracted the notice of 

 some ladies of the house. The door was re- 

 opened, when it again seized the girl with its 

 bill, and pulled her (vilh increased force. On 

 the servant going- a little way from the door, 

 the duck ceased its noise, and watidled on with 

 considerable expedition towards the park. The 

 girl followed for a short way, but havine: no 

 idea what it would be at, and ()ossessing less 

 than an ordinary share of female curiosity, was 

 returning to the house, when the duck pursued 

 her, quacking with greater violence than ever- 

 She determined to see the end of this, and fol- 

 lowed her silent companion who led the way 

 to a sunken water trough in the park, in vvhich 

 much to her astonishment, she found two duck- 

 lings apparently but a day old, in the mud, from 

 which they were vainly endeavoring to extri- 

 cate themselves. They were immediately re- 

 leased, to the apparent satisfaction of the mo- 

 ther, who in a very singular manner, had thus 

 saved the life of her ollspring. — Eng. paper. 



A Toad. — A miner employed with others in 

 sinking a uew coal pit, near Haughtonle Spring, 

 a few days ago, found a living toad in the mid- 

 dle of n solid block of stone, at the depth of 

 between 25 and 2C lathoms from the surface of 

 the earth. The reptile was brought up, and 

 four days after was killed and examined. It 

 was foimd to have nostrils but no mouth : in 

 other respects it resembled the common toad. 



Temples excavated out of Granite. — Capt- See- 

 ly has published an account of a magnificent 

 Temple in Elora, East Indies, which was hewn 

 not of the solid rock. It is 100 feet high, and 

 145 feet long l>y 62 broad, having well formed 

 door ways, windows, stair cases in its upper 

 floor, large rooms divided by pillars, and figure 

 -i^Mileries, with compartments containing figures 

 of Hindoo mythology. Old Col. Mem. 



our, pronounced the word full, the master told 

 him it should be spoken without the li, as thus, 

 onour : "Very well, Sir," replied the lad, " I 

 will remember for the future." "Aye," said 

 the master, " always drop the h." The next 

 morning the master's tea, with a hot muffin, had 

 been brought to his desk, but the duties of his 

 avocation made him wait until it wns cold ; w hen 

 speaking to the same boy, he tol3 him to lake 

 the muffin to the fire and heat it : " Yes, Sir," 

 replied the scholar, and taking it to the fire, ale 

 it. Presently the master calls for his muffin ; 

 " I have eat it, as you bid me," said the hoy : 

 " Eat it, you scoundrel ? 1 bid you take it to the 

 fire and heat it." " But, Sir," answered the 

 lad, "yesterday you told me always to drop 

 Hie /i." 



The late Dr. Brown courted a lady several 

 years unsuccessfully; during which time, it had 

 been his constant custom to drink the lady's 

 health before that of any other: but beii\g ob- 

 served cue evening to omit it, a gentleman wisii- 

 ing to remind him of it, said, " Poctoi', come, 

 diink your usual toast." The Doctor .'eplied, 

 " I have toasted her lor several 3 ears, and can't 

 make her brown; so I'll toast her no longer. 



Neutrality is not permitted to a good ciiizen. 

 Indifference about political party is not modera- 

 tion, but either an insensibility to the public 

 wellare, or a selfish desire of getting favour 

 with both sides at the expense of the honest. 



()::5= Subscribers to the Farmer, are informed 

 that they can liave their volumes bound on reasona- 

 ble terms bji ho'cing them at this OJficc. 



Six persons died lately in England, in conse- 

 rjiience of drinking cider drawn from a barrel, 

 \"hcre some adders had died, and were under- 

 going decomposition. 



ANF.CDOTES. 



A schoolmaster, (worthy brother of Ilicro- 

 cles) taught his boy.^, whenever they heard him 

 sneeze, to rise up with solemnity, cross their 

 hands on their bosom?, and ejaculate "God pre- 

 serve our venerable tutor!" One day he took 

 them out for a walk ; and the weather being 

 hot, it was propored they should drink at a well. 

 The well was deep, so the master made them 

 join their turbans together for a rope, and di-- 

 fcending to the bottom, handed them up their 

 driidi, oi.e after the other. The refreshment 

 over, he bade them draw him out again, and had 

 nearly reached Ihe top, when the coldness ol 

 the well making him sneeze, the whole posse 

 in=lantly let go the rope, threw themselves in- 

 to their accustomed atlitudc,and exclaimed with 

 fervor, "God preserve our venerable tutor !" 

 who broke his leg in consequeoce of their pie- 

 y and iiis precision. 



A schoolmaster hearirg one of his scholars 

 read, the boy, when he came to the word Hon- 



LA.NUS FOR trALL IM rE.NNSYLV ANl A. 



THE subscriber olfi rs l^r sale in sniall lots to actual 

 settlers, or in larger tracts to oth< rs, the following 

 lands in the State of l'enn«ylvania, belonging to the 

 I state of the late Wm. Bingham, viz: tieo hvhdred 

 andjifty thousand acres in the counties of Lr.idford 

 and Tioga, at from lliree dollars, to luo dollars fifty 

 f(7i/s pir acre, according to sitnatinn ; and _Are Aun- 

 drtd lliousund acres in the counties of Potter, McKc an, 

 Vriiango, Armstrong, .lefftrson and Lycoming, .it tiro 

 rfc/(ars per acre. The terms are ten yiars fcr pay- 

 ments, thrte of them without interest. The land is 

 gentrally of a good quality, well watered, intersected 

 I'v important roads, and in a healthy situation. For 

 further particulars application may be made to agents 

 m the dilfcrent counties, or to 



ROBERT H. ROSE, 

 July 24. Silver Lake, Pennsylvania. 



A.NTED iNo. 51. of the Ist Vol. of the N. E. 

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 prices. 



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