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N K W ENGLAND FARMER 



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(l''roin the Spirit of the Times.) 



THE FADED ROSE-BUD. 



As s!ie turned 'tlie leaves of her book, they disclosed 



a faded and dried Rose. She stirted on seeing it, but 



in tlie neii moment, with a tear in her eye, placed the 



•sad relic of happier days in her bosom. 



And, art thou so faded ! yet come to my heart, 

 All robbed of thy sweetness, and dead as thou art. 

 More v.jlued than ever, though pallid decay 

 -Hath w asted thy freshness and odor away. 



How 'withered ! how colorless I was it for this 

 I treasiured thee here in a moment of bliss .' 

 Didst token such changes, when ofFer'd to be 

 His 'pledge of affection who gave thee to me .-' 



'T is well thou art faded : for, oh ! had thy hue 

 'Mid ail that is faithless, been steadfast and true, 

 VVh 11 anguish ! what mockery were it, to see 

 The heart's dearest visions outlived, — and by thee. 



'T is well thou art faded ; now, close to my heart 

 I I iress thee, all withered and pale as thou art, 

 Li ke sympathy, too, shall thy presence allay 

 T' he sorrow that wastcth my spirit away. 

 Nov . 20, 1835. Li.vcoLN. 



Reasoning OF Brutes — Anecdotes of Cats. 

 — There lias been nuicli idle discussion on the 

 qii t'stion whether other animals besides man cx- 

 er rise reasoning powers, or are always guided by 

 in .stinct. Althotigh this is one of the many sub- 

 jects on which 'much may be said on both sides,' 

 it has always seemed to mc clear that all animals 

 (man included) j)ossess and exercise both these 

 p owers, in greater or less proportion — the more 

 p erfect animals, as man, and the elephant, and the 

 (',og, having most reason and least instinct ; and 

 t Jie lower orders, as insects, possessing the most 

 :idmirable instinct, and the least of reason. Still 

 man has some instinct, and the ant e.xfiibits still 

 more evidence of having some share of the rea- 

 soning faculty. 



Domestic animals, by ages of servitude to, and 

 companionship with man, have not only departed 

 greatly, as to each family, from their original wild 

 character, but many individuals seem to have 

 learned more than others, and to exhibit feelings, 

 as well as acquirements, different from all others 

 of their kinds. Many well attested and interesting 

 accounts have been publislied of such facts of ele- 

 phants and of dogs, the animals which can best 

 profit by man's teaching, and even seem to share 

 his passions and feelings. I shall state a circum- 

 stance of another, and the least tamed and docile 

 of all domestic animals, the cat, which exhibits 

 every appearance of the possession of not only 

 reasoning, but of feeling. The circumstances 

 were witnessed by all the members of a highly 

 respectable family in my neighborhood, by several 

 of whom I have heard them stated — and in such 

 manner as to leave no possible doubt of the cor- 

 rectness of the details which will be here re- 

 peated. 



A female cat that was nursing her litter of kit- 

 tens in the cellar of the mansion hou.se, died when 

 they were so young, that in most such cases it 

 would have been deemed a tnore merciful plan 

 to drown them, than to attempt to raise them. 

 But as cats were then scarce about the house, and 



the rats and inioe very numerous and destructive, 

 orders were given to use every care to nurse and 

 raise the yoimgkiltens. The cellar in which they 

 were was generally open, being | artly a kind of 

 liiinber room, and frequented continually by the 

 servants in their different occupations. 



Writers on natural history have treated the cat 

 as devoid of all affection or kind;y feelings for its 

 owner, and indeed for every thing else but self — 

 that caring for nothing but what conduced to its 

 own comfort or plfeasiire, the cat was a complete 

 exemplification of a being altogether selfish. Such 

 is truly their almost universal character. In ad- 

 dition, we know that however tame cats become 

 in the houses where they live, they still remain as 

 wild animals at others, and in the presence of 

 strangers — going abi'oad by stealth, and at night 

 — and flying in alarnt from the approach of every 

 footstep. '1 he cats raised in our negro-houses 

 are very fearful of approaching the "great house," 

 and rarely venture to do so except at night, and 

 when attracted by the com; atiy of their own 

 species. 



At one of the negro houses, about a hundred 

 yards distant from the mansion, another cat had 

 kittens of about the same age of those left by the 

 one that died. This one, as usual, had never 

 been seen at the house, and probably had never 

 ventured there except in their customary roaming 

 at night. The next day after the death, this 

 "quarter cat" was seen carrying off one of the 

 orphan kittens, in her mouth. She was chased, 

 the kitten taken from her and brought back. It 

 was not long before she returned, and repeated 

 the attempt, but with the same ill success as be 

 fore. She had to pass through a considerable 

 distance e:xposed to detection, and could not, 

 without being seen, escape with her burdens. 

 The report of these attempted abductions, and the 

 singularity of the circumstances, caused the family 

 to attend with curiosity to her proceedings, and 

 left the poor animal the less chance of success. 

 She continued, however, for several days, (the 

 door of the cellar being always open) to carry 

 away the kittens, without 'neing able to escape, 

 undetected, a single time. At last, a new and 

 more interesting movement was seen. She was 

 bringing one of her own kittens to the cellar — 

 and being left undisturbed, she soon brought them 

 all, and placed them with those which she was so 

 anxious to nurse. There she took her place in 

 spite of her fears, and nursed both litters as long 

 as they needed it. Of course, she, and all her 

 charge, had every aid of food, and care from the 

 ladies of the family. 



Another anecdote of a reasoning cat will be 

 stated which was told me by an intimate and val- 

 ued friend, whose habits of observation are re- 

 tnarkable for strictness and care, as are his state- 

 ments of every kind for the most entire correctness. 

 He had a cat raised in his house, and as tame as 

 usual under those circumstances. Cut whenever 

 about to produce her young, she would take re- 

 fuge in some out-house, not inhabited. There 

 she kept her kittens until they were old enough 

 to begin to eat — and then with every litter her 

 course was always to bring them one by one, (held 

 according to their made of transi)ortiug them, by 

 the skin of the back,) and lay them on the hearth 

 rug in her mistress' chamber. For experiment, 

 they were sometimes taken up and carried back, 

 and more than once in the same instance. But 

 she would patiently repeat her labor, and continue 



to bring them and lay them on the rug, until the; 

 were permitted to remain, and were fed and takei 

 care of. This cat was a bad nurse, and generall; 

 lost some of her kittens, even with the aid thu 

 obtained. No words could have been used to e^ 

 press more strongly than her conduct, the praye 



to aid her in her maternal duties "£. Jf." in th 



Farmer's Register. 



Needs tor 1836. 



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 25 " Salsafv; 



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 200 " Mangel Wurlzel for Cattle. 

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SEEDS. 



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