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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



SEPT. as, 1843. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A Connectiatt Story. — The following is a fact, 

 having;" actually happened some years since in the 

 State of Connecticut— (so says the paper in which 

 we find it, but in which it is not original.) 



A man in rather embarrassed circumstances, sur- 

 rounded by a large family, being hard pushed lor 

 meat, Imd recourse once in a while to the sliecp- 

 fold of Ills neighbor — a wealthy farmer — for a sup- 

 ply. The neighbor having a large flocU of sheep, 

 did not perceive that he had lost any until one of 

 the finest of the flock, very large and fat, was miss- 

 ing — and counting his sheep, he found he had lost 

 several. Unable to account for this extraordinary 

 loss, he resolved a few nights after to watch. A- 

 bout midnight he observed an uncommon distur- 

 bance among his sheep, by the sudden appearance 

 of a man dressed in disguise. Curiosity, us well 

 as to observe the conduct of the person and find 

 out his unprofitable customer, induced him to lie 

 still. In the flock there was a ram, with whom it 

 seems the man was in the habit of conversing, as 

 if he had been the actual owner of the sheep. 



"Well, Mr Ram," says the nocturnal sheep- 

 stealer, " I am corae to buy another sheep : have 

 you any more to sell ?" 



To which he replied himself, as in the person of 

 Ihe ram, " Yes, I have sheep to sell." 



By this time the owner perceived him to be one 

 of his neighbors. 



" What will you take for that large fat wether ?" 

 says the purchaser. 



'•Four dollars," replied Mr Rant- 

 "That is a very high price," says the customer, 

 "but as you are so good as to wait for your pay, I 

 think I will take him." 



" Well, Mr Ram," continues the honest sheep- 

 buyer, " let us see how many .sheep I have bought 

 of yon." 



" If I am not mistaken," s»ys Mr Ram, " this is 

 the fifth" — and then went on to cast up the amount 

 of the whole, and alter giving Mr Ram a polite in- 

 vitation to call on him for his pay, and bidding him 

 good night, the man led the wether home, while 

 the owner lay laughing at the novelty of the scene, 

 as gratified as if he had ample pny for the whole. 

 A few nights afterwards, when he supposed his 

 neighbor was nearly out of «iutton, he brought the 

 old ram and tied a little bag under his neck, and 

 placed a piece of paper between his horns, on 

 which ho wrote in largo letters, I HAVE CO.ME 

 FOR MV PAY. 



Under this line he footed up the whole amount 

 of the five sheep, exactly as his neighbor had 

 done, as before related. He then took the ram to 

 his neighbor's house, where he tied him, near the 

 door, and went home. When the neighbor rose in 

 the morning, lie was not a little surprised to find 

 a sheep tied to his own door; but greater was his 

 astonishment when he found it was the old ram 

 with whom he had been dealing so much in mut- 

 ton, with his errand on his forehead, and the amount 

 of five sheep accurately made out, as he had done 

 before in the person of the ram. 



Sufl^ce it to say, he obtained the money, and af- 

 ter tying it up nicely in the little bag, and tearing 

 the paper from his horns, set the rain at liberty, 

 who immediately ran home jingling his money, as 

 if proud of having accomplished the object of his 

 errand. The ram's customer quit patronizing the 

 sheepfidd thereafter, and his past offences were 

 never mentioned to him by the owner of the sheep. 



Yitnkte Wit. — A Yankee, travelling in one of 

 the Southern States, stopped at an inn for the night. 

 He saw his horse well lodged in a barn, and enter- 

 ed the house, where he found a party of Southern 

 gentlemen assembled on their return from a horse 

 race. The Y'ankee during the evening amused the 

 company with jokes. 



Ill the morning, on preparing to mount his horse 

 to resume his journey, he fuund him too lame to 

 proceed further. In this dilemma, the Southerners 

 met him in the yard, where they were preparing 

 to mount some of their fine racers. Says one of 

 the Southerners to the Yankee : 



" My friend, we have heard much of Yankee wits 

 and tricks : do show us such a trick before you 

 leave us." 



The Yankee attempted to assure them that he 

 was not witty, nor had any tricks to exhibit, but in 

 vain. 



Whereupon, says he, " well, gentlemen, if you 

 insist upon it, I will just show yon a trick. Let 

 any of you start his horse as he pleases, and I will 

 bet you a ' five spot' that I will run and jump up 

 hehind." 



" Done I" cried several voices at once. 

 One rider immediately set forward at full speed. 

 He found no Yankee on the crupper behind him. 

 He stopped to claim the bet ; but then, he discov- 

 ered thai the Yankee had run after him, (on his 

 starting,) for a few rnds, and had afterwards con- 

 ned jumping up in the air — he had jumped up 

 behind! It was decided that the Yankee had won 

 the bet. 



•' Who could not do thnt ?" exclaimed the mor- 

 tified Southerner, as he forked over the money. 

 " You can't 1" said the Yankee. 

 "I will bet you my horse of that, my lad! — here 

 mount him. There, start ahead." 



The Y'ankee mounted the horse, and set furward 

 at a steady pace. But just as the Southerner had 

 run forward some rods, and was about to ''jump up 

 Jiehind" to his infinite chagrin he saw the Yankee 

 face about, riding with his back to the horse's head I 

 The Southerner looked firebrands and daggers ! — 

 and he continued to look until the Y'ankee and his 

 horse were out of sight. And he has- never seen 

 either of them to this day. — Exchange paper. 



[[C7°It is totally immaterial whether the above 

 story he true or not: it will accomplish its object 

 of exciting merriment with the million. So far as 

 the Yankee was innocently witty, it was well. But 

 when, in illustration of " Yankee tricks," he virtu- 

 ally stole a horse, he disgraced the title of Yankee. 

 Such mean-spiritedness as this, instead of being 

 made a matter of merriment, should be frowned up- 

 on by every true Y'ankee who glories in the "land 

 of steady habits" as his birthplace. Such exhibi- 

 tions of low cunning, which, if not synonymous 

 with, are but one remove from, actual dishonesty, 

 have done great discredit to the Y'ankee character, 

 and, ill many iniiids, have made Yankee "shrewd- 

 ness" inseparable from guilt. That there is no 

 necessary affinity between wit and crime, is a fact 

 with which the young particularly should be im- 

 pressed — and that to take advantage of another by 

 any means which would be offensive if used by 

 another towards ourself, is despicably mean, and 

 incompatible with a noble mind.] 



Idleness not a Pleasure. — Particular care shoul 

 be taken that children do not associate the idea 

 of idleness &ni pleasure. The mind and the bod 

 both need occasion:il recreation; but there is n 

 necessity that either should ever in our waking mr 

 ments be idle. Proper employment not only pre 

 motes good, but prevents evil ; so also, idlenes 

 has Us positive as well as its negative effects. 



Nature, or rather the God of Nature, has s 

 formed the human heart that it cannot be happy i 

 a dormant slate. Nothing is so grateful to th 

 mind as the consciousness of being well employe 

 There is a principle in man which disposes him 1 

 be proud of responsibilities, and pleased with th 

 idea of discharging them aright. This principle 

 early developed. Children are never so happy ; 

 when invested with some responsibility. It is i 

 great consequence that this should be encourage 

 Children should be taught, as much as possible, I 

 derive pleasure from usefulness Maine Cult. 



GREEN'S PATKST STRAW CUTTER. 



JOSKPH BRECK & Ct). at Ihe New England A^ric 

 tiiral Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. SI and 52 Norlh M: 

 ket Street, have for sale, Green's Patent Straw, Hay a 

 Stalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle not beli 

 applied to any implement lor lliis purpose. The most pro 

 inent effecls of this application, and some of the consequi 

 peculiarities of the machine are: 



1. So great a reduction of the quantum of power requis 

 to use it, that the strength of a half grown boy is sufficii 

 to work it efficiently. 



2. With even this ninderate power, it easily cuts two bui 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fast as has been clain 

 hy any other machine even when worked by horse or sle 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in which tl 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any ol 

 straw cutler. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made and 

 together very strongly. It is therefore not so liable as i 

 complicated machines in general use to get out of order 



A perfect knowledge of the depravity of the hu- 

 man heart, with perfect pity for the infirmities of it, 

 never co-existed but in one breast, and never will. — 

 Lacon. 



SAYIjE'S G4RDEN ENGINE. 



This is a splendid arlicle. It will throw a constant stre; 

 of water to the distance of SO or 60 feet, with great for 

 and in case ol fire would lie a good suhsiitule for a fire i 

 "ine The most perfect article for the purpose ever int: 

 duceri. For sale by J. BRECK & CO., No. 51 and 62 No 

 Market street. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suitalde for Ploughing. 

 200 " Truck and leading Chains. 

 20n " Draft Chains. For sale by J. BRECK & Ci 

 No. 52 North Market st. 



POUDRETTE. 



For sale 200 Barrels Poudrette, at S2 per barrel, by 

 BRECK &, CO, 51 and 52 North Market St., Boston. 

 May 18. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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