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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



iitttsccUantcs. 



The following- Song, selected from a composition 

 published in 1792, was sung at the dinner table at the 

 Bridgewater Exhibition and Cattle Show on Wednes- 

 day last. 



YE FARMERS, who toil and who labour to crown 

 Columbia's rich fields in the pride of renown, 

 A world is your own, and yours 'tis to stand 

 The highest and first in Freedom's fair land. 



Rise anew with each morn, ye favoured of men ; 

 Recount to your children what wonders have been ; 

 How L berty called you and how you obeyed ; 

 How you fought in her cause, and how were repaid. 



From your station on high one moment loolc down 

 Oa the myriads beneath you, that grovel around ; 

 Survey the wide world, and yourselves you will find 

 Most peaceful and happy of all human kind. 



Go, cross o'er the deep and the nations explore. 

 Where vassals are cursing the kings they adore ; 

 Whose millions are squandered for pomp and for show ; 

 Where life's little prospect is shrouded with wee ! 



Disgusted with tyrants— disgusted with slaves. 



To your own native land then return o'er the waves ; 



There blest Independence and Freedom enjoy. 



No despot shall rule or fanatic annoy. 



There lords and there vassals alike are unknown ; 

 The king and the courtier, the court and the throne ; 

 There I'eace kisses Freedom, and Man is coufest, 

 Of titles the greatest, the noblest and best. 



With this highest title see Farmers aspire 

 To Senates, the Bench and the President's Chair; 

 See them gird on the sword, teach monarchs to how. 

 Then triumphant retire, and follow the Fi.ocgii I 



ODE. 



■\Vritten for the sixth Triennial Festival of the Massa- 

 chusetts Charitable Mechanic Association — by Mr 

 Charles Spracde. 



WHEN from the sacred garden driven, 



Man fled before his Maker's wrath. 



An Angel left her place in heaven, 



And crossed the wanderer's sunless path. 



'Twas Art ! sweet Art ! new radiance broke, 



Where her light foot flew o'er the ground, 



And thus with seraph vt^ice she spoke, 



" The Curse u Blessing shall be found.'''' 



.Slie led him through the trackless wild, 



Where noontide sunbeam never blazed ; 



The thistle shrunk — the harvest smiled, 

 And nature gladdened as she gazed. 

 Earth's thousand tribes of living things, 

 At Art's command to him are given, 

 The village grows, the city springs. 

 And point their spires of faith to heaven. 



He rends the o.ik — and bids it ride, 

 To guard the shores its beauty graced ; 

 He smites the rock — upheaved in pride. 

 See lowers of strength and domes of taste. 

 Eartli's teeming caves their wealth reveal, 

 Fire bears his banner on the wave, 

 He bids the mortal poison heal. 

 And leaps triuinpant o'er tiie grave. 



He plucks the pearls that stud the deep, 

 Admiring Beauty's lap to fill ; 

 He breaks the stubborn marble's sleep, 

 And mocks his own Creator's skill. 

 With thoughts that fill his glowing soul, 

 He bids the ore illume the page. 

 And proudly scorning time's control, 

 Commerces with an unborn age. 



In fields of air he writes his nanif, 

 And treads the chambers of the sky. 

 He reads the stars, and grasps th- flame 

 That quivers round the Throne on high ! 

 In war renowned, in peace sublime. 

 He moves in greatness and in grace ; 

 His power subduing space and time, 

 Linka realm to realrn, aud race to race. 



Ji7i odd Fish. — On the approaching marriage 

 of Mr Boland, of Clapham, Mr Fish, an old 

 friend of the family, called one mornins(, a short 

 time before the iutended union took place : 

 when he was going away, the young Lady at- 

 tending him to the door, he held out his hands to 

 her, and asked her which she would have. She, a 

 little embarrassed by the question, put his hands 

 together, and playfully said she would have them 

 both. He good-n;iturediy told her, that he com- 

 mended the prudence of her choice, as there 

 was a note in each, which he meant (o present 

 her father, but also in token of his approbation 

 of her choice : the notes were four thousand 

 pounds each. Four months afterwards tliis 

 same Mr Fish dined with Mr Bill, an Apothe- 

 cary in Bridge street, in Company with Mr Al- 

 derman Smith, Jlr Blades, and two or three 

 other gentlemen. In the course of the after- 

 noon Mr Fish said, that he had a relation, a 

 most pleasing and respeclalde young woman, 

 whom he so much wished to see comfortably 

 married, that if a proper person should come 

 in his way, he would himself give her a portion 

 of five thousand pounds. " I do not know who 

 you could find more eligible, th.m llie gentle- 

 man at the head of the table," said tiie alder- 

 man, who knew there was a partiality between 

 the parties, which only prudential motives pre- 

 vented them from cultivating. " If jMr Bill can 

 obtain her consent," said Mr Fish, " he shall 

 have my money." "Sir," said Mr Bill, " you 

 make me the happiest of men." The lady's 

 health was then drank, and the evening passed 

 off with great hilarity. The next day Mr Bill 

 presented himself at the lady's house, and the 

 marriage took place soon after. Mr Fish paid 

 the portion according to his promise. 



^ Advice to Young Ladies. — If you have blue 

 eyes, you need not languish. If you have tlaclc 

 eyes, you need not leer. If you have good 

 teeth, you need not laugh. If you have bad 

 ones, do not laugh less than occasion will justi- 

 fy. If you dance well, dance but seliioiii. If 

 you dance ill, dance not at all. If you sing 

 well, make no previous excuses. If you sing 

 indifferently, hesitate not a moment when ask- 

 ed ; for few people are judges of singing, bul 

 every one is sensible of a desire to please.— 

 Never touch a sore place in any one's charac- 

 ter; for be assured, whoever you are, you have 

 a sore place in your own, and a young woman 

 is a flower that may be blasted in a moment. 

 It is always in your power to make a friend by 

 smiles — what folly then to make enemies bv 

 Irowis. When you have an opportunity to 

 pruisp, do it with all your heart. When you 

 are forced to blame, do it with reluctance. If 

 you would preserve beauty, rise early, If you 

 would preserve esteem, be gentle. If you 

 would obtain power, be condescending. If vou 

 would live happy, endeavour to promote the 

 hapjiiness of others. 



The Countryman and the Beadle. — A short 

 time since one of the beadles of this town look 

 a quantity of butter away from a countryman be- 

 cause it was deficient in weight ; and meeting- 

 him a few days after in a public house, says to 

 him, "you'r the man I took twcntv pounds of 

 butler from." " No, I bea'nf," replied Hodge. 

 ■• I am sure you are," says the beadle ; '• I tell 

 ye I bean't," rejoined the countryman, " and if 

 thee lik'st, I'll lay a guinea on't ;" " Done," re- 

 plied the beadle, and the money was quickly 

 posted. " Now," said the countryman, " thou 

 didst take away twenty lumps of butler from me, 

 but if there had been twenty ^Toiino^ you'd have 

 had no right to take them ; and this,"" continued 

 he, very cooly pocketing the money, " will pay 

 for the loss of the butler." — Briiihton, Enrr. Gaz. 



Fruit and Ornamental Trees. 



FOR sale, as usual, at the 

 KEA RICK I'LACE, near 



Brighton. The Kurserits have 



S& been much enlarged. 



anu contain 



"mn- 



'M^'i'M variety of Pears,AppleE, Clienies, 

 '^ Plums, Apricots, etc. Also, thp 

 fintst Nursery of budded Peach 

 ■^J^^^sSs^lsfc Trees kiiov/n in America; con- 

 sisting ol a choice collection of about 30 of the most 

 appioved kinds in our best gardens, or seen in the mar- 

 kets ; the Peach Trees are from five to eight feet high, 

 and sold at the moderate price of 33 1-3 cents each; — 

 of good sized ornamental trees, — the flowering Horse 

 Cbesnut — flowering Catal pa— European Mountain Ash 

 — -Wcpping Willow — the Evergreen Silver !■ ir, and th'.; 

 Larch — English Walnuts and Butler Nuts, both of 

 which are justly admired for their fruit. The latter is 

 a hardy, handsome tree, and its baik valuable in dyes 

 :iii'i medicine. 



Currant bushes of the lar^-e prolific red kind, of all 

 sizes, by the dozen, hundred or thousand, on moderate 

 terras. Also the black, while, and Champaign, do — 

 red and white roses — Lilacs — F.iisUsh Grapes, &c. 

 Orders addressed toJOHNor WILLIAM K'E.NUICK, 

 ind sent to the Brighton Post-Oific;'. or to the Office 

 of Mr. Samuel Dana, Brok;r, in State-street, Boston, 

 will be duly attended to. 



N. B. Trees will be packed in clay and mats for 

 shipping, and conveyed to Boston wlien ordeitd; but 

 gentlemen at a distance should employ some ;igeat to 

 receive and pay for them. 



Bremen Geese. 



FOR sale by Thomas Williams, at Xoddle's Island, 

 near Boston, 20 large Bremen Geese, which, af 

 5 months'old, weighed from 15 to 20 lbs each. These 

 Geese were obtained by Mr. \\ dliams of Col. .laquea 

 of Charlestown, Ms. and are of the same breed, of which 

 notice is given in the New England I'armer, vol. iii. p. 

 45. in an artiole copied from a Providence paper. — 

 They are recommended in preference to all others by 

 their weight, extra qualitj' and quantity ol down, and 

 feathers (yielding double ;) they are perfectly white, 

 set much earlier, are more sure of bringing off a brood, 

 are remarkacdy hardy, and will weigh when fatted dou- 

 ble the weight of our common geese." They are like- 

 wise very prolific. Mr. Wiiliains raised, the present 

 season 28 goslings from .3 geese. The original stuck of 

 these geese was imported bv Ebenczer Rollins Esqr. of 

 Boston. ' Oct. 0. 



A light J\lan. — Wanley, in his " Wonders of 

 the Great and Little World," gravely tells us, 

 that Fhiletjs of C005, wlio was an excellent 

 critic and a very good poet in the time of Alex- 

 ander the Great, had a body so lean and so 

 light, that he used to wear leaden shoes, and 

 never walked out without a leaden weigh; 

 about hiui, lest he should be Llowt) away by Uie 

 wiud. 



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