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NEW ENGLAVD FARMER. 



ftttsccUanfcs. 



THE SPARTAN'S MARCH. 



[by MRS. HEMA.NS.] 

 "The Spartans used not the trumpet in thfir march 

 into battle," says Thucyilides, "because th,-y wished 

 not to excite the rage of their wairiors. Their charg- 

 ing-step was made to the ' Dorian mood of flutes and 

 foft recorders.' The valour of a Spartan was too high- 

 ly tempered to require a stunning or rousing idipulse. 

 His spirit was like the steed, too proud for the spur." 



[CA.lirBELL. 



'Twas morn upon the Grecian hills, 

 Where peasants dressed their Tines, 



Sunlight was on Cithaeron's rills, 

 Arcadia's rocks and pines. 



And brightly, through his reeds and flowers, 



Eurotas wandered by — 

 When a sound rose from Sparta's towers 



Of solemn harmony. 



Was it the hunters' choral strain 

 To the woodland-gnddess poured ? 



Did virgin hands in Pallas' fane 

 Strike the full-sounding chord .' 



But helms were glancing on the stream, 



Spears ranged in close array. 

 And shields flung back a glorious beam 



To the morn of fearful day '. 



And the mountain-echoes of the lancf 

 Swelled through the deep-blue sky. 



While to soft strains moved forth a band, 

 Of men that moved to die ! 



They marched not with the trumpet's blast, 



Nor bade the horn peal out ; 

 And the laurel groves, as on they passed, 



Rung with no battle-shout ! 



They asked no clarion's voice to fire 



Their souls with impulse high ; 

 But the Dorian reed and the Spartan lyrt 



For the sons of Liberty ! 



And still sweet flutes, their path around, 



Sent forth Eolian breath ; 

 They needed not a sterner sound,, 



To marshal them for death I 



So moved they calmly to their field. 



Thence never to return, 

 Save bearing back the Spartan shield, 



Or on it proudly borne .' 



People pretend to say, that the world grows | Gallantry. — Some time ago, a lady of the 

 wiser every day of its life, hnt fur tn^ [larl, I j Forle=cue I'amilv, who possessed grent personal 

 nm apt to think this is a small mislike. And I. charms, was walking along a narrow lane, she 

 contend I am warranted m this conclusion bylol)Spr\ed not far behind her a hawker of 

 the flirt above slated Every hard-lhinking man|par!hcn wa'c, driving an ass with two paniers 

 that has been enar iffed in the lant;ilizing business j lailen w ith his slock in trade. To give tiie an- 

 of dpvoiirin? a herring, mnsl have doubted if imal and his master room to pass, the lady sud- 

 Ihat crfo/iicc was intended to be eaten by people ! denly started aside, which so frightened the 



whose teeih. tliro«t, and digestive powers were 

 so ill calcniati d to e^erci*e themselves upon 



poor animal that he ran away, but had not pro- 

 ceeded far, when he unfortunately fell, and a 



bones, as his own. For nuself, I tikt-ays had a j great part of the crockery was broken to pie- 

 kind of glimm.-rine idea, that a herring was not ces. The lady in her turn became alarmed, 

 in his proner element when coursing about theilesl. when she came up to the man, he should 

 stumps, gulfs, and eddies of a man's throat, in- j load her with abuse, if not offer to insult her; 

 asinurh as he is a mere " pestilent congregation I but, to her surprise, when she arrived at the 

 of bones," better calculated for the muddy con- 1 spot, the mm with great good humour, gallant- 

 tents of the swill-pail, or the omniferoivs gullets I ry and wit, exclaimeil, '• Never mind, madam^ 

 [gullies] of the canine fraternity. Nevertheless; Balaam's ass was frightened by an angel." 



I ari free to own, it never entered my head that ! 1 



a herring could be reared as a regetable. jVnd li Prospects of Emigrants. — .\ letter from Cin- 

 most heartily agree with my most respected ; cinnati, Ohio, of (he 25th of Aug. says, " Any 

 progenitors, and with them recommend lo the quantity of Corn may be had at eight cents per 



Feeling. — .\ gentleman, who liked gardening, 

 was one day pruning a branch, and, byhisawk 



^ardne-s. pruned his lesr also, bf a gash from Trees thiy order will prove genuine 



TOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Mr Fessenden — In a little smoky volume at 

 the Alhenseum, published in London, 1649, en- 

 titled .'2 I'ew Descriptio7i of Virginia, I rind the 

 following interesting inlbrmation : 



" New-England is in a good Condition for Lively- 

 hood. Bat fur any iM.^tter of any great Hopes but 

 Fishing, there is not much in that Land ; For it's as 

 Scotland is to England, so much IJiflVrence, and lyes 

 upon the same Land northward as Scotland doth to 

 England : There is much Cold Frost and Snow and 

 their Land so ' arren, unless ci Herring be put into the 

 Hole that you'iiet the Come or Maize in., it will not come 

 up; and ii was great Fitlie all those People being now 

 about twenty Thousand did not seat themselves at first A debate once took place among the members 

 to the South of Virginia in a warm and rich Country of the legislature in one of the Middle Stales, 

 ^here the.r Industry would have produced Sugar In-L„ ,y ,,„,y ,„ „,g,^. .^ould set to dispose of the 

 dice, Giuger, Cotton, and the like Commodities." l • l ■• .l " nv r . i ■ 



business before them. Jftree wc(fo was at last 



It thus appears that the use to which our determined on. " Why in the nntne of wonder" 

 Jimca wortiiy progenitors put herring, was to inqnired a wag, at the bar, "do they not set 

 plant them " in the Hole with the Corne." — [/our weeks., like other geese !" 



present respectable generation of herring-catch- 

 ers to unite farming with their present employ- 

 ment, and hereafter deposit their herring in the 

 " bowels of the harmless earth," instead of the 

 "bowels" of their more unfortunate customers. 

 1 wish it to be distinctly understood thai I most 

 strenuously and decidedly recommend that for 

 the future "the n°rring be put in the Hole 

 with the Corne or Maize." X. 



■3 Goose is very generally accounted an ex 

 ceedingly stupid creature, and the proverbial 



bushel [in the ear], delivered in town as soon 

 as it is fit to cut, say 2 or 3 weeks, as it is for- 

 ward, and the crop more abundint than was ev- 

 er known." W a. a delightful prospect is thus 

 held out for emjnrratii'n ! Strange that all our 

 farmers do not leave these "cold . lij barren 

 hill=." and migrate to the west, where "four 

 times as mu' h corn can be raised with the same 

 lal'or, as can be raised here." and where too it 

 is sold six times as cheap 1 Four bushels of corn 

 will buy our. paper. The publisher of a small 

 paper, at the West, about the size of a sheet of 



expression, "as stupid as a goose," is frequent- !l"''"''"P'''»'^'.^ '^''^ert'sed that 16 bushels of 

 v used to denote the extreme of stupidity.— j^vc or corn, or 8 bushels of wheat, would pay 

 That every ffoose is not extremely stupid, how- 1 1'^"- his paper one year. Give us old New-Eng- 

 >ver, the 'following occurrence, "which lately ''""I .vet ; where, if grain is to be the " circulat- 



ing mediimi" between farmers and mechanics, 

 we shall not be obliged to load an ox team to 

 Vermont Spectator. 



Th 



e 



took place on a farm at the bead of ibis conn 



tsv, will testify. A haughty dun<rhill cock took 



a 'particular antipathy to a fine goose, the guar- ' V'^y ^ ''^^ '^°"="" '^^^^ 



dian of a numerous brood, and, accordingly, 



ivherever and whenever they mot, the cock im- ' '"'^'^ ■' ""«— -^ lUnt^y, seeing a new imported 



mediately set upon his antagonist. The goose, i ''''hman. passing the gales of the king's Dock, 



who had little chance with the nimble and i ^' Liverpool, cried out, " Arrah, Pat, what's 



sharp heels of his opponent, and who had ac- 1 '.''^ clock by your red stockings?" "Just strik- 



cordingly suffered severely in various rencent-j "'S O'^^' *^"1 ^^'''^J' at the same time flooring 



res, got so exasperated aga-inst his assailant, that | "^^ ''""''-^ "'•'h his shilalab. 



one day, during a severe combat, he grasped 



the neck of his foe with his bill, and dragged 



him along by main force, and plunging him into 



an adjoining pond, kept his heail, in spite of j ^Js 



every effort, under w.iler, and where the cock ' *^-^- 



would have been drowned, had not a servant, 



who had witnessed the proceeding, rescued the 



humbled foe. From that day forward Ihe goose 



received no further trouble from his enemy. 



.J^'*S5<^-^ 



FRUIT TREES, &c. 



JAMES BLOODGOOD & CO. 

 have lor sale at their ]S"ursery 

 at Flushing, on Long Island, near 

 New York, 

 Fruit and Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs & Plants, 

 of the most approved sorts. 



The Proprietors of this Nursery attend personally to 

 the inoculation and engrafting ot' all their Kruit I'rees^ 

 and purchasers may rely with confidence, that the 



which the blood ran abundantly. The gardener 

 looking on, raised his eyes, and in a melancholy 

 tone exclaimed, " O, sir ! what a pity to spoil 

 so fine a stocking !" 



Orders left with Mr Zededee Cook, jr. No. 44 State 

 Street, Boston, will be transmitted to us, and receive 

 our prompt and particular attention. Catalogues will 

 be delivered, and any information imparted respecting 

 the condition, fcc. ^c. that mny be required, on appli- 

 cation to him. Si pt. 4. 



TERMS OF THE FARMER. 



Q:^ Published every Saturday, at Three rcLi.ii Ri 

 per annum, payable at the end of the year— Int tl cse 

 who pay within si.rli/ days from the time ol' Ful->rril ii:g 

 Will be enlitlrd to a di duction ol Kiktv Cents. 



0::5=rostagi; must be paid on all letters to the Editor 

 or Publisher. 



