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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 15, 1830.- 



THE CONCORD CATTLE SHOW. 



A SONG 

 Written by the Editor of the New England Farmer, and sung by Mr 

 J. W. Newell, of Charlestown, at the entertainment at tbe 

 Concord, [Mass.] Agricultural Exhibition, &c, on the 8th insl. 



Since Time in the Primer first sharpened his scythe. 

 And the sands in his glass were boginning to flow. 



There never was spectacle bonny and blithe. 



Which came fairly up to our Grand Cattle Show. 

 Berry down, down down, dcrry down. 



Here's Bulls, Hogs, and Horses, and Sheep not a few, 



Respectable animals, worthy a prize, 

 Like good go-to-meeting folks, each in his pew. 



All sober as deacons— if not quite so wise. 



Master Pig is the Chorister, just twist his tail. 

 And he'll give you altissimo trills in hi^h style, 



The fine diatonics which ran through the scale 

 Of his exquisite gamut will ring for a mile. 



Our Roots have run down to gravity's centre. 



Some went on to China, and thieves pulled them thro' — 



But that's a tough story, and I should'nt venture. 

 In a high court of Justice to swear it is true. 



And here we have oxen, stout animals, which 



Might well go to Congress, representing their race. 



Round gravity's centre just give them a hitch, 

 And I guess they would twitch the whole world out of 

 place. 



The match of our Ploughmen was ne'er matched before, 

 Save when a lorn lover is matched to his Fair; 



They turned the earth over as flat as this floor. 

 Such chaps the great globe, hke an apple can pare. 



In troth, all the world's nothing more tlian a show 

 Of animals, shut up, or running at large, 



You meet with queer creatures wherever you go, 

 And pity their keepers, who have them in charge. 



A calf sent to College comes out a great bore. 



An odd metamorphosis that, it is true. 

 But one which has taken place over and o'er ; — 



Now I do not mean you, Sir, nor you. Sir, nor you. 



I hate personalities, therefore won't say, 



How a jackass conducts when made just ass of Peace, 

 Such animals now and then come in my way. 



But I never shear hogs for the sake of their tleece. 



A vile pettifogger, all quibble and jaw, 



Is 99,000 limes worse than a brute, 

 In a sunbeam he'll pick an indictable flaw. 



And i gainst his own shadow show cause for a suit. 



Here's health to our Orator, one who can boast 

 That he practises well what he preaches about ; 



But gentlemen please not to butter my toast. 



For we like him so well we can take him without. 



Here's 'Middlesex Husbandmen,' doing more good 



Than all the political clubs ever known, 

 Unless a man's head is the essence of wood, 



He ranks them above any king on his throne. 



Derry down, down down, derry down. 



CANNIBALISM. 



Captain Cook having one day gone ashore in 

 Queen Charlotte's Sound accompanied by Mi- 

 Banks, Dr Solander, Tupia, and other persons 

 belonging to the ship, they found a family of the 

 natives employed in dressing some provisions. 

 ' The body of a dog,' says Cook, ' was at this time 

 buried in their oven, and many provision baskets 

 stood near it. Having cast our eyes carelessly 

 into one of these as we passed it, we saw two 

 bones pretty cleanly picked, which did not seem 

 to be the bones of a dog, and which, upon a near- 

 er examination, we discovered to be those of a 

 human body. At this sight we were struck with 

 horror, though it was only a confirmation of what 

 we had heard many times since we arrived upon 



this coast. As we could have no doubt but the 

 bones were human, neither could we have any 

 doubt that the flesh which covered them had been 

 eaten. They were found in a provision-basket ; 

 the flesh that remained ajipeared manifestly to 

 have been dressed by fire, and in the gristles at 

 the end were the marks of the teeth which had 

 gnawed them. To put an end, however, to con- 

 jecture founded upon circumstances and appear- 

 ances, we directed Tupia to ask what bones they 

 were ; and the Indians, without the least hesita- 

 tion, answered the bones of a man. They were 

 then asked what was become of the flesh, and 

 they i-eplied that they had eaten it ; but, said 

 Tupia, why did you not eat the body of the wo- 

 man which we saw floating upon the water .- 

 The woman, said they, died of disease; besides, 

 she was our relation, and we eat only the bodies 

 of our enemies who are killed in battle. Upon 

 inquiry who the man was whose bones we had 

 found, they told us that, about five days before, a 

 boat belonging to their enemies came into the 

 bay, with many persons on board, and that this 

 man was one of seven whom they had killed. 

 Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice 

 prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will 

 scarcely be required, we have still stronger to 

 give. One of us asked if they had any human 

 bones with the flesh remaining upon them ; anil 

 u[)im their answering us, that all had been eaten, 

 we afi'ected to disbelieve that the bones were hu- 

 man, and said that they were the bones of a dog ; 

 upon which one of the Indians, with some eager- 

 ness, took hold of hisown fore-arm, and thrusting it 

 towards us, said that the bone which flir Banks 

 held in his hand had belonged to that part of a 

 human body ; at the same tiinc, to convince lis 

 that the flesh liad been eaten, he took holdiof his 

 own arm with his teeth, and made show of eating. 

 He also bit and gnawed the bone which Mr Banks 

 httd taken, drawing it through his mouth, and 

 showing by signs that it had afforded a delicious 

 re()ast.' Some others of them, in a conversation 

 with Tupia next day, confirmed all this in the 

 fullest manner ; and they were afterwards in the 

 habit of bringing human bones, tho flesh of which 

 they had eaten, and offering them to the English 

 for sale. 



'\ 'len Cook was at the same place in Novem- 

 ber, 1773, in the course of his second voyage, he 

 obtained still stronger evidence of what he ex- 

 pressly calls their ' great liking for this kind of 

 food' — his former account of tlieir indulgence in 

 which had been discredited, he tells ns, by many. 

 Some of the officers of the ship having gone one 

 afternoon on shore, observed the head and bowels 

 of a youth, who had been lately killed, lying on 

 the beach ; and one of them, having purchased 

 the head, brought it on board. A piece of the 

 flesh having then been broiled and given to one 

 of the natives, he ate it immediately in the pres- 

 ence of all the officers and most of the men. 

 Nothing is said of any aversion he seemed to 

 feel to the shocking repast. Nay, when, upon 

 Cook's return on board, (for he had been at this 

 time absent on shore,) another piece of the flesh 

 was broiled and brought to the quarter-deck, that 

 he also might be an eye-witness of what his offi- 

 cers had already seen, one of the New Zealanders, 

 he tells us, 'ate it with surprising avidity.' < This,' 

 he adds, ' had such an effect on some of our 

 people as to make them sick.' This very head 

 was afterwards deposited in Mr Hunter's Museum, 

 where it now is — Lib. of Entertaining Knowledge. 



ERRATA. 



The number of letters in each copy of t 

 Chronicle will not vary much from 100,0C 

 There are then, 100,000 places wheie errors tni 

 be committed. Any letter of the alphabet is li 

 hie to get into either of these places. The nui 

 her of letters betides that which should be set, 

 •25 ; so that each of the 100,000 jilaces is expogi 

 to either of 25 different errors, and the who 

 number of errors which must be guarded again 

 in every paper, is, 2,500,000 ! Or rather, tk {\\ 

 would be the number if we used but one fount 

 ty])e. Bf.t we use four, which raises the numh 

 of wrong types, liable to get into a particular ])lac 

 to 103, and the number of possible errors to IC 

 300,000 ! ! And this, without counting capital 

 point.*, figures, &c — so that the chances again 

 perfect accuracy, to be guarded against by it 

 skill and care of the printer, are more tlian 10 

 300,000 to one. From these premises we iofe 

 1. That compositors and proof-readers oiigl 

 to he very careful ; and 2, That readers ought li 

 to be surprised, if they find an error now tu 

 then. — Vermont Chronicle. 



For Sale, 



The well known FARM in Dover, occupied for the \k 

 fourteen years by the subscriber, containing about SO 

 acres, well located in a square, bounded on the southb 

 Cochecho river, and on the cast by Fresh creek, on whit 

 is a tide mill, with an apparatus for pounding aud grindio 

 plaster. The Buildings consist of a large two story Biic 

 House, of 4G feet by 38, with a wing of 20 by 16, all we 

 finished, adjoined to which is a shed 34 feet by 14, cm 

 necting the cider house 27 by 37, two stories, with OS 

 plastered room, where all the spinning and weaving j 

 iloiie for the family ; tvto Barns, one of which is 100 fef 

 by 42, with two wings of about 40 feet each, one emploj 

 ed as a stable, the other for a sheepfold, with a good yar 

 well walled in ; the other is a Store Barn of 45 feetsquan 

 of 16 feet post, and will contain 60 tons of hay ; a pi| 

 gery of 60 feet by 30, with a cellar of IS feet square ui 

 der it, with boilers set to make soap, brew, and cook fe 

 swine. The fields are divided by permanent stone wall 

 and consist of one of 40 acres in front of the house, M 

 of 17 on the East, one of 10 acres on the North, (princi 

 pally orchard,) one of 15 Northeast, and one of 30 sere 

 West of the house, with three pastures of 20 to 25 aa( 

 each. 



The Farm has been gradually improving for the hi 

 ten years, and the two last has cut each year one ban 

 dredtons of hay, and 20 to 25 tons of thatch. It is m 

 and a half miles from the village of Dover, which afiiwl' 

 a good market. There has been planted some hundnd' 

 of Fruit Trees, principally Apple, many of which in 

 grafted — with Pears, Cherry, Hum, Peach and Qubn 

 trees, and many in bearing, with a small nursery. 



The terms of sale may be known by applying to M(jo; 

 Andrew Pierce, of Dover, Mr Samuel Lord, i' 

 Portsmouth, or the subscriber on the premises. 



June 11. WILLIAM FLACa 



Seeds for Fall sowing. 



For sale at the Seed Store connected with the Ne« 

 England Farmer, 52 North Market-street — 



A great variety of vegetable seeds for fall sowing, tii 

 White Portugal Onion, Prickly or Fall Spinach, (grow* 

 of 1830,) Parsnips, Carrots, Black Spanish or Winter Ri 

 dish— all warranted of the first quality. Sept. 10. 



Published every Friday, at ^3 per annum, payable attl* 

 end of the year-but those who pay within sixty days fromfl' 

 time ofEubgcribing, are entitled to a deduction offiHy cent* 



\^ No paper will be sent to a distance without pavBMfli 

 being made in advance. 



Printed for J. B. Russell, by I. R. Butts— by wto» 

 all descriptions of Printing can be executed to meet the 

 wishes of customers. Orders for printing received by J. B_ 

 Russell, at the Agricultural Warehouse, No. 52 Nortk 

 Market Street. 



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