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NEW ENLGAND FARMER 



OCT. 38, 1835. 



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PARLEZ BAS. 

 BY J. G. DRAKE. 

 (Speak low!) 

 Parlcz baa'. The moon is up, 



And o'er the sleepy throng 

 The mocking-birds high notes are heard, 



In wild and witching song — 

 No eye shall trace thy footsteps here. 

 But fear thee not while love is near. 



Parlcz bus! Though here we meet 



In silence deep, alone. 

 No guilty thoughts disturb our souls. 



No wish we fear to own 

 Pure as the light yon orb imparts. 

 Shall be the meeting of our hearts. 



Parhz bas! A genial breath 



Is wandering o'er earth's flowers, 

 Their fragrance mingles with thy voice. 



And holy joy is ours. 

 Parlez bas! aud let each tone 

 Echo the fondness of ray own. 



Parlez bas! And now repeat 



The vow'whose lips once made, 

 Mine is a love that cannot change, 



A heart that ne'er betrayed. 

 Osay that thou wilt love me still, 

 Through storm or sunshine, good or ill. 



Parlez bas! I bless thy words 



The last that 1 may hear, 

 Sweet on my brow thy breath I feci. 



Upon my cheek thy tear. 

 Now take thee to thy bed and rest. 

 And be thou blest as I am blest. 



Watching baggage. — The Rev. Mr Reed says 

 iQ his Narrative, that while passing in a steamer 

 he saw an old lady sitting on a l)ox, watcliing the 

 rest of her baggage at her feet, and singing fre- 

 quently :-^ 



Great box, little box, 



Band-hox and bundle : 



One, two, three, four. 



Great box, little box, 



Band-box and bundle : 



One, two, three, four. 



A waiting inaid at an inn in Wiltshire, on be- 

 ing asked how many gents, there were in the 

 liouse, replied, " Three gents, and four gentle- 

 men." 



" Wliy do you make a distinction, Betsey ? " 

 asked her interrogator. 



"Oh, why, the gents, are only half gentlemen, 

 people from the country, who come on horseback ; 

 the others liave their carriages, and are real gen- 

 tiemen." 



The use of lace veils to ladies' faces is but a 

 modern fashion, not of more than twenty to thirty 

 years standing. Now they wear black, white aud 

 green — the last only lately introduced as a sum- 

 mer veil. In olden time, none wore a veil but as 

 a mark and badge of mourning, and then, as now, 

 of crape, in preference to lace. 



A GOOD NATURKD FELLOW. — No character is 

 more common, aitd at the same time so imperfect- | 

 ly understood, as that a good natured fellow. I 

 have myself met many of the species ; and 1 take 

 it solemnly on iny conscience to say, that there is 

 not in the world a creature I would go further to 

 avoid coming in contact with. A cynic you can 

 be prepared for; a bore you may get rid of; a 

 coxcomb you may sometimes ]n\t down ; hut a 

 ;ood natured fellow there is no i)Ossible chance of 

 escaping. He does the most ill natured things in 

 best natured wny. If a friend makes a good joke 

 at your expense, your good natured fellow is the 

 first to \vhis|)er it in your ear ; if a dinner be giv- 

 en to which you imagine you had a claim to be 

 invited, your" good natured fellow takes special 

 care to detail to you the amazing magnificence of 

 the entertainment; he amuses you with repeating 

 all the good things that were said after dinner; 

 specifies the different qualities of wines that were 

 paraded on the occasion, and concludes by telling 

 you that you " had a great loss in not being asked." 

 If you happen not to be cater-cousins with your 

 tailor, a good natured fellow will unquestionably 

 point out to you any time-honored. breaches which 

 your garments inay exhibit, and will, in the most 

 good natured manner, tell you where an excellent 

 ready money fashioner may be found. A good na- 

 tured fellow will drink your wine, and laugh in 

 your face ; singe your wig, if you wear one, and 

 tell you he did it that you might get a more be- 

 coming one ; he will ask you to sup with him at 

 a tavern, and leave you to pay the reckoning : the 

 next day, meeting you, he laughs heartily at what 

 he calls a "capital joke" ; you feel that you have 

 been regularly diddled, but, then, how can you be 

 angry with stich a good natured fellow? He has 

 also a peculiar fancy for appropriating handsome 

 canes and walking sticks, aud for borrowing great 

 coats and umbrellas, which he always forgets to 

 return. Tn company, the good natured fellow is 

 a most diverting animal, but, somehow, all his ac- 

 tions are productive of annoyance : he volunteers 

 to carve, and bestows a liberal portion of gravy 

 on all his immediate neighbors ; he fills an elderly 

 1 asthmatic clergyman's glass with brandy instead 

 ' of sherry ; and at tea, in his anxiety to hand a cup 

 of cofl'ee to a lady he spills it over her blue silk 

 gown. Should a pair of whispering lovers be en- 

 t^aged in a tender tete-a-tde, your good natured 

 fellow thrusts in his ear with "a right good story 

 of what Lord Howlh said when Clarendon fell at 

 the race yesterday." If you bo remarkably deU- 

 cate and nervous, your good natured fellow will 

 come behind you in the street, with a slap on the 

 shoulder that electrifies you, squeezes you by the 

 hand till the blood is ready to start frotii your fin- 

 ger nails, 9nd then tells you that " you are going 

 hotiiiG fast," *nd that " you look as if you would 

 have a daisy growing out of your eye before next 

 summer." In short, it would be an endless task 

 to enumerate all the disagreeable qualities of a 

 simple good natured fellow ; but if you should 

 ever happen to meet a person who is generally 

 designated " a deuced good natured fellow" he is 

 iumieasmably worse : fly from him as you would 

 fiom a burning house, an angry wife, or an actor 

 before his benefit. — Dublin Sntirist. 



MORTJS MUI.TICAULIS. 



JOSEPH DAVENPOUT, of Colerain, Mass. offers for 

 sale 16,000 trees of the Morus Multicaulis, or Chinese Mul- 

 berry, being a part of his trees culiivatcd at Colerain and at 

 Suffield, Ci., 16 m.lcs north of Hartford, oLe mile from the 

 nvcr. The trees are from 2 lo 3 feet high. Price according 

 lo size, from 25 to 30 dollars per hundred. Were propagated 

 from trees that endured the last severe winter unprotected. 

 Purchasers will be furnished with a knowledge of its culture 

 and suitable soil, which, if attended lo will ensure it without 

 protection against the severily of our climate. Trees will be 

 carefully packed and for\varded by laud or water lo any part 

 of the country. Orders received by mail will receive prompt 

 aiienlion. Colerain. Oci. 5, 1835 



MORXJS BHJI1TICAUI.IS. 



Frcit and Ornamental Trees. 



Nursery of William Kenrick, Nonanlum Hill in 

 Newton, near Boston, and near the Worcester Rail Road. 

 Selections of the finest vnrielies of New Flemish Pears, — 

 also Apples, Cherries, Peaches, Plums, Neclarins, Almonds, 

 Apricots, Grape Vines, Currants, Kasherries, fine imported 

 Lancashire Gooseberries, Slrawerries,&c. — 



MoRus Mei.TicAULis.or Ci.iiiese IMulbcrry, by the single 

 tree, the 100 or 1000 — and-Plantalionsfor silk furnished at the 

 reduced prices and reasonable rates. 



12,000 Peach Trees of finest select kinds are now ready (or 



Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, and Roses of about 1000 

 finest kinds,— Also Herbaceous flowering plants, Pajomes and 

 splendid Double Dahlias. 



The excellence of the varieties, the quality, the size, con- 

 tinually improve as the numbers are augmented. These 

 now comprise nearly 400,t 00— covering compactly about 

 20 acres. 



All orders left with Geo. C- Barrett, who is Agent, at 

 his Seed Store and the Agricultural Warehouse and Reposi- 

 tory, Nos. 51 Sf 52, North Market street, will be ni like man- 

 ner only attended to — Catalogues gratis, on application. 



SFLEllVDID DUTCH HYACINTHS, &c. 



This day received my annual collection of Hyacinths ; con- 

 sisting of the very finest varieties to be obtained in Holland. 

 May he planted in open ground, polled, or grown in glasses. 

 Prices 25 CIS., 37i CIS. 50 cts. and gl,0O. Orders promptly 

 executed. GEO. C. BARRETT. 



Boston. Oct. 14,1835. 



BREMEiV GSESE. 

 For sale at the Agricultural Warehouse Bremen Geese and 

 Muscovy Ducks. GEO. C. BARRETT. 



GARDKN SEEDS, TREES, &c. 



The subscriber is daiv receiving a supply of Garden Seeds, 

 growth of 1835, and wi'll execute orders from the South at 

 ihort notice, for SEEDS of the greatest variety, raised in gar- 

 dens connected with the Agricultural Warehouse and Aeio 

 En<rland Seed Store, Boston, and warranted of good quality. 



I°OXh;S OF GARDEN SEEDS containing an assorlment 

 neatly papered up in 6J cent papers supplied at a discnmil to 

 Traders al«o FRUIT AND OR^AlMENTAL TREES, 

 MULBERRY AND MORUS MULTICAULIS TREES. 



A.'riculluraland Horlicullural Books, New England Far- 

 mer "(weekly a 62,.=)0 per annum), Silk Manual (monthly at 

 50 els per annum). Horticultural Register al ^2 per annum, 

 published by" GEO. C. BARRETT, 



The Duchess of Cheveietix, for the first time at 

 the court of England, in 1638, swam across the 

 Thames, in a frolic, near Windsor. 



Cosmo de Medicis, although surrounded by 

 magnificence and luxury, lived very abstemiously, 

 and indulged himself in no delicacy whatever. 



L.USTRE FLOWER POTS. 



For sale at he New England Farmer Office, beautiful Super 

 !u;ierb Flower Pots. 



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 PhiJadetphia—T). i,- C. Landekth, 85 Chesnut-slreet. 

 i?u«!moi-e— Publisher of American Farmer. 

 Cmcinmli—S. C. Pajikhurst, 23 Lower Markel-slreet. 

 Ftushw<r,N Y.—Wm. Prince S^- Sons, Prop. Lm. Bol.Gaf. 

 West Brarf/brrf.— Hale & Co. Booksellers. 

 Middlehury, V'(.— Wight Chapman, Merchant. 

 Hart/orrf— Goodwin cS- Co. Booksellers. 

 Afewten/port- Ebenezer Stedmax, Bookseller. 

 Portsmouth, N. H.-JoHN W. Foster, Bookseller. 

 Woodstock, Vt.—l. A. Pratt. 

 Bansor, Me.-Wm. Mann, Druggist. 

 HalifaJ, N. S.—V. J. Holland, Esq. Editor of Recorder. 

 S(. io""— Geo. Holton. 



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