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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



FEB. 19, 1843, 



MISCELLANEOUS 



SONG FOR THE SEASON. 



BY JAMES T. FIELDS. 



O swift we go e'er ihe fleecy snow, 

 VViien moonbeams sparkle round ; 



When hoofs keep time to music's cliime, 

 As merrily on we bound. 



On a winter's night, when lisarts are light, 



And health is on the wind. 

 We loose the rein, and sweep the plain, 



And leave our cares behind. 



With a laugh and song, we glide along, 



Across tlie fleeting snow ; 

 With friends beside, how swift we ride 



On the beautiful track below. 



O ! the raging sea has joy for me, 



When gale and tempest roar ; 

 But give me the speed of a foaming steed, 



And I 'II ask for the waves no more I 



DonH be loo Posilive. — There are many young 

 persons who are very positive about things, when 

 they are, after all, mistaken. 



" Tliore goes Jerry Smith," says Philip. 



" Where .•" I do ii't see him," says John. 



" Why, there, yonder, at the top of the hill." 



" Oh I that ain't Jerry Smith." 



" Why, yes it is." 



"No, it is n't — that's Selh Mead," 



" I tell you it 's Jerry Smith — if it is n't I '11 eat 

 him." 



Such is the dialogue: but pretty soon the boy 

 comes along, and behold it is Seth Mead, and not 

 Jerry Smith. " There," says John, "now you 'ye 

 got to eat him, Phil !" 



" Where is the hammer, Peter .'" says his father. 



" I do n't know, sir," is the reply. 



" But you had it lust." 



" No, I did n't, sir." 



"Yes you did; you took it yesterday," 



"Oh, yes, I remember — I took it — but I put it 

 in the drawer again, where I got it." 



" Are you sure .'" 



" Yes, sir." 



" I think you are mistaken — for if you had put 

 it there, it would have been tliere still." 



" I 'm certainly sure I put it back there." 



"Well now, my son, I found it on the grass, 

 wliere you had been at work. Did n't you leave 

 it there ?" 



"Oh — yes — I believe I did. Yes, I remember: 

 I did leave it there." 



" Well, now take a lesson from this : do n't be 

 so positive, when you are not so sure. In two in- 

 stances you have been mistaken; you said that you 

 had not taken tho hammer out, and you were quite 

 sure; you then said you had put it where you had 

 got it, and you were again quite positive. But re- 

 member that in both cases you were mistaken. Let 

 this teach you to be more modest and careful in fu- 

 ture ; and instead of saying you are sure, say, I 

 think so and so. No person ought ever to say he 

 is positive of a thing, where there is the least po.s- 

 sible chance of a mistake." — Merry's Museum. 



A Western paper says : " If E. B. Doolittle who 

 is in the habit of robbing our hen-roost, and steal- 

 ing our nearest neighbor's pigs in the night, does 

 not desist, we shall publish his name." 



Gen. Putnam. — The last nunjber of the Knick- 

 erbocker says : " Wc have before us nn unmistake- 

 able autograph letter of his, which, both for its 

 hand-writing and orthography, is a decided curiosi- 

 ty. It runs as follows : 

 " Dear Ginrol 



After nir Talor cum to me with your ordor I imme- 

 diately went <m board all the rno galles and told 

 them it was your Pisetive orders that that they pro- 

 ced up the revor with 2 tier ships the 2 Rodisland 

 galU'S and thos2 bilt beer — immedally waied ancor 

 and Proceed up the revor; the oather -i have not 

 moved but now aply for 30 men, which ware parad- 

 ed by my quartors for 2 or 3 hours, and then went 

 tliare way — but I beleav thay nevor intend to go 

 and I nevor intend to Plag my self any more about 

 them. I am Dear Sir, ,Your most obdant humble 

 Sarvant, Israel Putnam. 



Tuesday Evening, 8 a clock." 



The subjoined letter is equally authentic and 

 characteristic : 



" head quarters ye 14 of December, 1776. 



All nffsors and solders boath thons that are New- 

 ly inlisted into the contenountel sarwis those of 

 the flieing Camp the melishey and all the Inhabi- 

 tence of this City are requested to parad to morrow 

 morning at 9 o'clock at the Markit to go on fatif 

 to fortify this city and so on Every morning tel far- 

 ther orders. Israel Putnam." 



The Imagination. — The anecdote which is go- 

 ing the rounds in the papers, of the farmer's joke 

 upon the physician in regard to horse beef, reminds 

 me of a well authenticated anecdote which took 

 place not more than ten miles from Salem, in days 

 when the spinning wheel and loom were more com- 

 mon than at present, — of a good lady vvho was ac- 

 customed to ply her wheel on the long winter eve- 

 nings, long after her husband had retired to rest 

 from the labors of the day. Before retiring, she 

 was in the habit of warming her side of the bed 

 with the warming pan. In doing this, she was 

 often annoyed by his remonstrating against it, say- 

 ing that she would burn him, though she had often 

 assured him there was no danger of that. To cure 

 him of this habit, she one night tilled her pan with 

 snow instead of coals: no sooner did the pan touch 

 him than he sprang from the bed exclaiming, " Now 

 you 've done it, Mary ! now you 've done it ! you've 

 burnt my leg to a blister !" — Salem Observer. 



Philosophy of Heat. — "Well, my little fellow, 

 said a certain preceptor to a juvenile philosopher, 

 whose mamma had been teasing the learned tutor 



to test the astonishing abilities of lierboy, "what 



are the properties of heat,'" 



"The chief property of heat is, that it expands 

 bodies, while cold contracts them." 



"Very good indeed: can you give me a familiar 

 example ?" 



" Yes sir; in summer, when it is hot, the day is 

 long; while in winter, when it is cold, it becomes 

 very short." 



The learned preceptor stopped his examination, 

 and was lost in amazement that so familiar an in- 

 stance should have so long escaped his own obser- 

 vation. — Knglish pap. 



A monkey-faced fellow offered himself to Gar- 

 rick, as an actor. " You will not do," says Garrick ; 

 "but if you had a tail, no money should part us." 



GREEN'S PATENT STUAW Cl'TTER, 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO, at the New England Ai;ncii». 

 tural Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 51 and r>2 North Mar. 

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

 Stalk Cutler, operating on a mechanical principle not hehin 

 applied lo aHy implement for this purpose. The most prom, 

 inent efTecls of tins application, and some of the cousequcnl 

 peculiarities of the machine are: 



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

 lo use It, thai ilie strength of a hall grown boy is sufficieii 

 lo work it efficiently. 



2. With even this moderate power, it easily cuts two husi* 

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

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or slean 

 power. 



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

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any othei 

 straw culler. 



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

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

 complicated mauhines in general use to get out of order. 



AaRICUIiTUUAl. IMPLEMENTS, &.C. 



The Proprietors of the New England Agricultural Wan 

 house and Seed Store No. 51 and 52 North MarLet street 

 would inlbrm their customers and the public generally ihi 

 lliey have on hand the most extensive assortment of Agri 

 cultuial and Horticultural Tools lo he found in the Unitet 

 States, Part of which are the followin 



1000 Howard's Patent Cast 



iron Ploughs. 

 300 Common do, do. 

 200 Cultivators, 

 too Greene's Straw Cutters. 

 50iWillis' do. do. 

 lou Common do. do. 

 100 Willis' Patent Corn 



Shellers. 

 50 Common do do. 

 2uO Willis' Seed Sowers. 

 60 " Vegetable Cutler 

 GO Common do. do. 



200 Hand Corn Mills. 

 200 Grain Cradles. 

 100 O.X Yokes. 

 1500 Doz. Scjlhe Stones. 

 3000 " Austin's Rifles. 

 March 17. 



too doz. Cast Steel Shovela 

 160 " Common do. 

 100 " Spades. 

 500 " Grass Scythes. 

 300 " Patent Snailhs. 

 200 " Common do. 

 500 " Hay Rakes, 

 200 " Garden do, 

 200 " IManure Forks. 

 300 " Hay do, 

 500 Pair Trace Chains. 

 100 " Truck do. 

 too Draft do. 



600 Tie up do. 



50 doz, Haller do. 

 1000 yards Fence do. 



25 Grind Stones on rolleri< 



PENCE CHAINS. 



Just received from England, 10,000 feel Chains, snitah 



for Fences or other purposes. For sale by J. BRECK i 



CO., No. 52 North Market St. April 21 



TYE rP CHAINS. 



Just received by 500 Chains for tyeing up Cattle. 



These chains, introduced by E, H. Debby, Esq, of Salei 

 and Col, Jacuue."!, for ihe purpose of securing cattle to ll 

 stall, are found to he the safest and most convenient niffi' 

 of fastening cows and oxen to the stanchion. 



For sale by JOSEPH BRECK & CO,, No. 52 Nor 

 Market si. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suitable for Ploughing. 

 200 " Truck and leading Chains. 

 200 " Draft Chains. For sale by J. BRECK & CC 

 No. 52 North Market st. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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