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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BY T. G. FESSENDEW. 



" Ji soft answer tvrneth away •wrathP 

 A gentle answer will assuage 



The ruthless vehemence of ire, 

 But petulance opposed to rage 



Is adding fuel to the fire. 



He who is cautious, calm and cool, 

 When made the subject of attack, 



May smile defiance on the fool. 

 Whose anger puts him on the rack. 



If injury you must repel. 



Hard words are not of any use. 



The greatest energy as well 



Is shown without, as with abuse. 



If one should offer you offence, 



By being angry with the elf. 

 Instead of gaining recompense 



You are but punishing yourself. 



But gentle answers will assuage 

 The headlong vehemence of ire. 



While petulance opposed to rage. 

 Adds tenfold fuel to the fire. 



MISCELLANY. 



FOR THE NEW ENGAND FARMER. 



Capricious and affected nicety shows the want 

 of good breeding as well as good sense ; and 

 those are generally most pleasing, who are most 

 easily pleased. 



Importance of Health. — No pains, expense, 

 self-denial or restraint to which we subject our 

 selves for the sake of health is loo much. — 

 Whether if requires us to relinquish lucrative 

 situations, to abstain from favorite indulgences, 

 to control intemperate passions, or undergo fe 

 dious regimens ; whatever difficulties it lays 

 us under, a man who pursues his hajipiness ra- 

 tionally and resolutely will be content to sut 

 mit to. 



Indolence. — To act is far easier than to suffer 

 yet we every day see the progress of life re- 

 tarded by mere repugnance to motion ; and find 

 multitudes repining at the want of those con 

 veniences, or necessaries, which nothing but 

 mere indolence prevents their enjoying. The 

 rewards of industry are within their reach, but 

 the demon of idleness paralyses their arm, and 

 prevents their reaching those comforts and en- 

 joyments which are the prize of exertion. 



Gaming. — In gaming. Judge Blackstone says, 

 the several (tarties engaged cast lots to deter- 

 mine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, 

 that the rest m.ay be saved a liltle longer. Tak- 

 en in any light, this is an offence of the most a- 

 larming nature, tending, by necessary conse- 

 quence, to promote public idleness, theft, and 

 debauchery, among those of a lower class; and, 

 among persons of a superior rank, it hath fre- 

 quently been attended with the sudden ruin and 

 desolation of ancient and opulent families, and 

 abandoned prostitution of every principle of 

 honor and virtue, and too often hath ended in 

 self-murder. To this passion every valuable 

 consideration has been made a sacrifice ; and it 

 is a passion which has lamentably prevailed in 

 our own country, and which we seem to have 



derived from our ancestors the ancient G-er- 

 mans ; who, according to the account given of 

 thtm by Tacitus, were besvitched with the spir- 

 it of play to a most exorbitant degree. " They 

 addict themselves," says he, " to dice (which 

 is wonderful) when sober, and as a serious em- 

 ployment, with such a mad desire of winning or 

 losing, that, when stripped of every thing else, 

 they will stake at last their liberty, and their ve- 

 ry selves. The loser goes into a voluntary shi 

 very, and though, younger and stronger than his 

 antagonist, suffers himself to be bound and sold. 

 And this perseverance in so bad a cause they 

 call the point of honor." " One would think 

 (says Blackstone) that Tacitus was describijig a 

 modern Englishman. Against a spirit so fran- 

 tic, laws can be of little avail, because the 

 same false sense of honor that prompts a man 

 to sacrifice himself, will deter him from ap- 

 pealing to a Magistrate. Yet it is proper that 

 restricting and protecting laws should be enact- 

 ed, and that they should be publicly announced 

 and repeatedly inculcated, if possible to pre 

 serve the unwary, if not to reclaim those who 

 are on the brink of ruin." 



Father le Compte, in bis travels in China, says, 

 " Gaming is equally prohibited among the com 

 raon people and the Mandarius ; and yet this 

 does not hinder their playing, and frequently 

 losing all they have — their lands, houses, chil 

 then and even their wives, which are all some 

 times laid on a single card." Shakspeare saye, 

 " keep a gamester from his dice, and a good 

 student from his book, and it is wonderful." — 

 Lord Bacon says, " a gamester, the greater mas 

 ter he is in his art, the worse man he is." — And 

 Addison says, " could we look into the mind of 

 a common gamester, we should see it full of 

 nothing but trumps and mathadores ; his slum 

 bers are haunted with Kings, Queens, and 

 Knaves." — London Farmers'' Journal. 



Gallant Escape of twenty-two Greeks. — The 

 Oriental Spectator of Smyrna, received last 

 week contains the following highly interesting 

 account of the escape of twenty-two Greeks 

 from the Turks, who had taken them prisoners 



Smyrna, Oct. 17. — We spoke lately of 22 

 Greeks who were taken at sea, brought to Smyr- 

 na, and then sent in chains to Constantinople. 

 When they arrived at Mualich, they were put 

 on board a vessel with a crew of 17 Turks. — 

 This vessel arrived at Constantinople during 

 the night, and anchored under the walls of the 

 .Seraglio. Only three Turks remained on deck, 

 an<l the others, who had left their arms there, 

 had gone below to amuse themselves in the 

 cabin. The Greeks were in the hold; their 

 chains were taken oiT, and they were onlv 

 hound with cords, that they might more easily 

 be landed the following day. The principal 

 of the Greeks immediately saw the advantage 

 lie might derive from the happy moment offer- 

 ed by fortune, in a situation which seemed des- 

 perate. He ajiproached one of his country- 

 men, who succeeded in loosing the cords that 

 bound him, with his teeth. As soon as his 

 hands were free, he successively, and without 

 noise, released all his companions. 



The tiventy-two Greeks having, by a bold 

 and successful effort, made themselves masters 

 of the vessel assumed the Turki'^h costume, in 

 which they were aided by the length of their 

 beards, which had been suffered to grow, set 



sail and disappeared ; — bnt a new danger thw 

 tens thetnat the Dardanelles — they are order 

 to stop ; thpy reply in Turkish, that the currt 

 has taken thetn away — that they are going 

 the fleet with otder-s from the Sultan : they i 

 suffered to pass, and soon reach the secc 

 Ca«lle, where they succeed in the same mi 

 ner. A much greater danger awaited them 

 Tenedos: it was broad day-light — a Turk) 

 frigate sailed towards them — they had ( 

 presence of mind to show themselves on de 

 and to retire imder the very guns of the fori 

 Tenedos. This bold and ingenious manoem|e 

 succeeded : the frigate convinced that ti 

 were Turks, tacked about just as they were * 

 the point of reaching them ; they took thef 

 moment to sail again, the wind being favoral 

 But soon the nature of their dangers changi 

 they met a Spezziot vessel, which, taking tb i\ 

 for Turks, fired at them. They succeedei II 

 making themselves known, and all of tbi «. 

 reached Ipsara in safety, after a voyage of i 

 days. — We warrant the correctness of all iht 

 details, which are known even to the Tud ici 

 who have taken the matter very cooly. — Ibt f 



Language of the Brute Creation. — The foIW * 

 ing singular fact is related by Father Bougfl itt 



" A sparrow finding a nest that a martin 

 just built, standing very convenient for I' Tlii 

 possessed himself of it. The martin seeingj 

 usurper in her hotise, called for help to eit w 

 him. A thousand martins came full speed' 

 attacked the sparrow ; but the latter beingi 

 ered on every side, and presenting only 

 large beak at the entrance of the nest, wa*< "6 

 vulnerable, and made the boldest of them-' 

 durst approach him repent their temerity. Ifoi 

 ter a quarter of an hour's combat, all the 11 i6r| 

 tins disappeared. The sparrow seemed 

 think he had got the better, and the spectit »'i 

 judged that the martins had abandoned K '« 

 undertaking. Not in the least. In a few seAlj * 

 they returned to the charge, and each of til * 

 having procured a little ot that tempered eil *; 

 with which they make their nests, they allt w 

 once fell upon the sparrow, and enclosed 

 in (he nest to perish there, since they ft* 's.l 

 not drive him thence." * 



Can it be imagined that the martins eh *l 

 have been able to hatch and concert this de|< J'lf 

 all of them together, without some medilM "'k 

 communication equivalent to language? rni^ 



Sagacity of the Fox. — A few years ago, 

 Barker, of Plymouth County, Mass. witi 

 or three others and a fox-hound, went in 

 suit of foxes. In proceeding to the 

 Cliff, so called, on the Scituate side of thi 

 er, they had not gone far when the dng 

 ed a fox. The fox ran directly for the 

 which at that place was between sixty ai 

 enty feet high. Being stopped there b; 

 men and closely pursued by the dog, thi 

 wung himself f^ the bank, and hung by k 

 paws. The dog following ran off the clil 

 was dashed to pieces. As soon as Reynar^t 

 the fate of his pursuer, he paused dowii 

 cliff, took a new start, and made his escajpttl 



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