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THE GENESEE FAEifER. 



|oitnf( |coj|(r's faije. 



KINDNESS. 



OVr the flowery meadow, 



Through the wicliot gate, 

 Conies our darlini; liissie, 



C'h.irrnine lillle Kad-; 

 Eyes ns Uright as ji'w.ls— 



Shining is her hair— 

 Rosy c ifks an<t dimples— 



Fairest of the fair. 



To see her is lo love her; 



^ The lillle lanihkins wait 



'la greet their smiling Katy, 

 To meet her iit the eatu. 



The liitle idayful kitten- 

 She runs to meet her there, 



And all domestie creaturi'S 

 ller kindly blessings share. 



Oh, the power of kindness! 



So iienile, lovins, meek, 

 It is indeed a Iwiigiiaffe 



Kven the duiid) oarTspeak; 

 The deaf can niiderstand it, 



It she<l8 a clie(?ring ray ; 

 Then li't lis strive lo.makeit 



Our guide from day lo day. 



ANECDOTES OF BIKDS. 

 There is much more intellect in birds than people sup- 

 pose. An instance of that occurred in a slate quarry be- 

 longing to a friend, from whom I have the narrative. A 

 thru.sb, not aware of the expansive properties of gun- 

 powder, thought proper to build her nest on d ridge of 

 the quarrj, in the very center of which they were" con- 

 stantly blasting the rock. At first she was very much 

 discomposed by the fragments flying in all directions, 

 but she would not quit her chosen locality. She soon 

 observed that a bell rang whenever a train was about to 

 be fired, and that, at the notice, the workmen retired to 

 safe positions. In a few days, when she heard the bell, 

 she quitted her exposed situation, and flew down to where 

 the workmen sheltered themselves, dropping close to 

 their feet. There she would remain until the explosion 

 had taken place, and then she returned to her nest. The 

 workmen observed this, and narrated it to their employ- 

 ers, and it was also told to visitors who came to view the 

 quarry. The visitors naturally expressed a wish to wit- 

 ness so curious a specimen of intellect ; but as the rock 

 could not always be ready to be blasted when visitors 

 caine, the bell was rung instead, and for a few times 

 answered the same purpose. The thrush flew down close 

 to where they stood; but she perceived that slie was 

 trifled with, and it interfered with her process of incu 

 bation ; the consequence was, that afterward, when the 

 bell was rung, she would peep over the ledge, to ascer- 

 tain if the workmen did retreat, and if they did not she 

 would remain where she was, probably saving to herself, 

 " No, no, gentlemen ; I am not to be roused oflT my eggs 

 for your amusement." 



Some birds have a great deal of humor in thero, par- 

 ticularly the raven. One that belonged to me was the 

 moat mischievous and amusing creature I ever met with. 

 He would get into the flower-garden, go to the beds where 

 the gardener had sowed a great variety of seeds, with 

 sticks put in the ground with labels, and then he would i 

 amuse himself with pulling up every stick, and laying! 



them in heaps of ten or twelve on the path. This ui 

 to irritate the old gardener very much, who would dr 

 him away. The raven knew thU he ought not to do 

 or he would not have done it. He would soon return 

 his mischief, and when the gardener again chased hi 

 (the old man could not walk very fast,) the raven wov 

 just keep clear of the rake or hoe in his hand, danci 

 back before him, and singing as pl-ain as a man cou 

 "Tol de rol de rol ! tol de rul de roll" with all kinds 

 mimicking gestures. The bird is alive now, and cc 

 tinues the same meritorious practice whenever he can fi; 

 an opportunity.— J/a;7-ya«. 



"CAN'T DO IT, Sm." 



SoMB poor families lived near a large wood-wharf, 

 one of the- cabins was a man who, when he was sob« 

 took pretty good care of his family; but the grog-sh, 

 would get his earnings, and then they suflTered. In co 

 sequence of a drunken frolic he fell sick. The cold ere 

 into his cabin, and but one stick was left in his celU 

 One night he called his eldest boy, John, to the bedsid 

 and whispered something in his ear. 

 "Can't do it, sir," said John aloud. 

 "Can't; why not?" asked his father, angrily, 

 "Because I learned at the Sabbath-school, ' Thou sha 

 not steal,' " answered John. 

 "And did you not learn 'Mind your parents,' too?" 

 " Yes, sir," answered the boy. 

 "Well, then, mind and do what I tell you." 

 The boy did not know how to argue with his father, f< 

 his father wanted him to go in the night and steal son 

 sticks from the wood-wharf; so John said to his father 

 "I can pray to night for some wood; it's better tha 

 stealing, I know." 



And when he crept up into the loft where his stra' 

 bed was, he did go to God with his prayers. He praye 

 the Lord's Prayer, which his Sabbath-school teacher ha 

 taught him, only he put something in about the woo( 

 for he knew God could give wood as well as "dail 

 bread." 



The next noon, when he came home from school, wha 

 do you think he caught sight of the first thing after b 

 turned the corner? Half a cord of wood before th 

 door— ^M door. Yes, there it was. His mother told bin 

 the overseers of the poor sent it, but he did not knov 

 who they were. He believed that it was God; and so i 

 was. 



WnT are two girls giggling like the wings of si 

 chicken? Because they have got a merry thought be 

 tween them. 



Why is a child with a cold in its head like a winter's 

 night ? Because it blows it snows (it blows its nose.) 



Wnr is a man who keeps thp toll at a bridge like a 

 Jew? Because he keeps the pass-over. 



Why is a parasite like a pair of spectacles? Because 

 he magnifies small things. 



Why is a tedious story-teller like the Thames Tunnel? 

 Btfcaune he is a great bore. 



Always invisible, yet never out of sight? Letter S 

 (in risible.) 



