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NEW ENGLAND F\R3IER. 



M I s en L L A :v I jb: s. 



BIRD SHOOTING. 



BY 'f. G. rESSE.NDEN. 



The plumy warblcre of ihe prove 



From spray to blossom roving, 

 Chant choral lyniphonics, above 



The tjuavors oriiethoven. 



These ere the I'armer't little frieiids, 



And (ovi to his anaoyers; 

 The pcily means to poivnl ends, 



As U'urm and bug destroyers. 



Bui od these prettiest of all 



The works of their Creator, 

 Are prematurely doomed lo fall 



ISy Alan, the Ucsolator ! 



Through tangled thickets Popgun steals 



To ihcir extermination j 

 Ah ! should he feel each death he deals, 



T were just retaliation '. 



iieader, it secmelh unto me, 



If you 'II excuse a pun. Sir, 

 No bluttderbitss should ever be 



Allow'd 10 use a gun, Sir. 



Lying — We liclieve thai the slight regard in 

 wliich strict triitli is liclil among mankind, is prin- 

 cipally owing lo tho lies which are told to chil- 

 dren by their parents during ihc lirst years if 

 their lives. Then is the time that permanent im- 

 pressions may he as well made as at any later pe- 

 riod. It is then, i)robahly, that what is called the 

 natural propensity of a child is unfolded. Many 

 j)ersons who have a great abhorrence to lying, 

 and whip their children if they detect them in it, 

 yet make no scruple of telling and acting to them 

 the most atrocious falsehoods. There are few 

 parents who do not do this, in a greater or less de- 

 gree, though doubtless without dreaming that they 

 are guilty of criminal deception. With many, the 

 w hole business of managing their children is a 

 jnece of mere artihee and trick. They arc cheat- 

 ed in their amusements, cheated in their food, 

 cheated in their dress. Lies are told them to in- 



duco them to do any thing that is disagreeable. 



If a child is to take physic, the mother tells him 

 she has something good for him to drink ; if reluc- 

 tant, she says she will send for the doctor to cut 

 ofThis ears, or pull his teeth, or that she will go 

 away and leave him, and a thousand things of the 

 .same kind, each of which may deceive once, and 

 answer the present purpose, hut will invariably 

 fail afterwards. I'arcnts are too apt to endeavor 

 to pacify their children by iiiaking promises th y 

 never intend to perform. If they wish, i;>r irr- 

 stanr-c, to take away somir eatable which they fear 

 will be injurious, they reconcile them by the prom- 

 iso of a ride or a walk, or something else which 

 will please them, but without any intention of 

 gratifying them. This is lying, downright lying, 

 reopli- ibiiik noiliing of breaking their proiiiises t°) 

 rhildr.n, if the performance be not perfectly eoii- 

 venicnt. Hut thuy are the last jiersons to whom 

 promises should be broken, because they caimol 

 comprehend the reason, if iheri! be one, why they 

 are broken. .Surh promises should he scriipidous- 

 ly rcdeeinnl, though at a great inconvenience, 

 nn.l even when inadvcrlently made. For the 

 child's moral liabit is of infinitely more conse- 

 'jnenre than any siieh ineonvemenco can possibly 

 !«'' to tin; jiarent — Literary Gazelle. 



Jnlv 31, 1829. 



Juilirinl Ijif^nily. — The fdlowiiig conversatluii 

 is S'iid to tiave passed between a venerable old 

 laily, and a certain presiding Jitdge, of this Stale. 

 The Judge was supported on the right and on the 

 left by his bumble associates, and the old lady was 

 called to give evidence. 



Presiilinl Judge — Take off your bonnet, madam. 



Laili/ — I would rather not, sir. 



P- J. — I desire you to put off your bonnet. 



L. — I am iiiformcil, that in public assemblies, 

 the women should cover the head ; such is the 

 custom — and of course I will not take off my 

 bonnet. 



/'• J- — ^Vhy, you arc a pretty woman ! Indeed ! 

 I think you had better come and take a seat on 

 the bench. 



L — I thank you kindly, sir — but I really think 

 there are old women enough there already. 



At an examination of the senior class, in a Col- 

 lege, a young man construed the following line in 

 Horace, " Exegi monumentuin a;re perennius," 

 (which is in English, "I bave finished a monu- 

 ment more lasting than brass) thus : " / have eaten 

 a momunenl harder Ihan brass." One of the Trus- 

 tees immediately replied, " Well, sir, I think you 

 had better sit down and digest it." 



An interesting work has lately been published 

 in London, called "The Journal of a Naturalist." 

 It is written in a very beautiful style, calculated 

 to iileasc as well as instruct the reader. The fol- 

 lowing short jiassage will serve as a specimen of 

 the author's style and manner. 

 ■ '' Flowers in all ages, have been made the rep- 

 resentatives of innocence and purity. We deco- 

 rate the bride, and strew her path with flowers i 

 ne present the undcfiled blossoms as a similitude 

 of her beauty and unlaiiitcd mind; trusting that 

 her destiny through life will be like theirs, grate- 

 ful and pleasing to all. We scatter them over the 

 coffin, the bier, and tbfc earth, when we consign 

 our mortal blossoms to the dust, as emblems o 

 transient joy, fading pleasures, withered hopes ; 

 yet rest in sure and certain trust, that each in due 

 season will be renewed again. All the writers of 

 antiquity make mention of their u.ses and applica- 

 tion in heathen and pagan ceremonies, whether of 

 the temple, the banquet, or the tomb — the rites, 

 the pleasures, or the sorrows, of man." 



Begging reduced lo a. si/slem The fiillowing 



facts have been ascertained in London : 



That beggars make great profits by changing 

 their clothes two or three limes a day, and receiv- 

 ing money which was intended for others ; that a 

 blind man with a dog has collected thirl;/ shillings 

 a (lay ; and others from three shillings to seven, 

 eight, and even more, per day. Tliere are two 

 houses in St Giles's, which are frequented by 

 more than two biuidred beggars ! There they 

 have their clubs ; and when they meet lliCy drink 

 and leed well, read the papers, and talk politics. 

 Nobody dares intrude except be is a beggar, or 

 inlroduced by one ; the singularity of the specta- 

 cle would otherwise draw numbers around them, 

 which would hurt the trade. Their average daily 

 collections amount to from three to five shillings 

 |icr day ; two shillings and sixpence of which it is 

 supposed they each spend at night, besides six- 

 pence for a bed. A negro beggar retired some 

 time ago to the West Indies, with a fortune of 

 1,500 pounds. Beggars say ihcy go through forty 



streets a day, ami that it is a poor street ihatd( 

 not yield two jitnce ; and that it is a bad d 

 which does not yield eight shillings, and more, 

 Beggars make great use of children in praeiigi 

 upon ihe feelings of the humane. Children i 

 sent out with orders not to return without a c< 

 tain sum. One man will collect three, four, 

 five from different parents, paying each tix|>ee 

 or nincpcnce a day. Some children have be 

 regularly let out for two and sixpence daily : 

 shockingly deformed child is worth more thun fc 

 shillings a day. An old woman in London k> p 

 night school for the purpose of instructing cl 

 dren in the street language. — Picture of London 



Imposters — A foreigner, who pretends that 

 has been robbed by pirates, has been solieii 

 charity in Worcester county. He is an impost 

 Almost all of those who are begging abrn 

 country are vile cheats, imposing on the ere. lid 

 of the public. Their stories are feigned, and th 

 papers forged. 



Catholic Mummery. — We perceive by the f 'linrl 

 ton papers, that on the 4ili of July the "novel a 

 sublime" ceremony oi iltssing a military slanJa 

 was perfoiined in the llomaii Catholic Calhed 

 in that city, by the Bishop in full pontifical <lie 

 wearing bis mitre and carrying his crozier. 

 had hoped that stiidi mummery would be cunrin 

 to countries less enlightened than this, belie\iiig 

 we do, that our horses, asses, standards, tea k> 

 tics, &:e. aro well enough without being blessed 

 the priests.— .V. 1'. Jour, of Com. 



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