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N E W K N G L A N D F A R M E R . 



OCT. 13, 1841. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. 



DT :i. W. LONGFBLLOW. 



Under a spreading chestnut tree. 



The village smithy stands : 

 The smith a mighty man is he, 



With large and sinewy hands, 

 And the muscles of his lirawny arm 



Are blroug as iron hands. 



His hair is crisp and Mack and Inn^, 



His face is like the Ian, 

 His lirow is wclwith honest sweat. 



He earns whate're he can. 

 And looks the whole world in the face, 



For be owes not any man. 



Week out, week in, from morn till night 

 You can hear his bellows blow — 



You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, 

 With measured beat and slow, 



Like a sexton ringing the old kirk chimes, 

 When the evening sun is low. 



And children coming home from school, 



Look in at the open door ; 

 They love to see the flaming forge, 



And hear the bellows roar, 

 And catch the burning sparks that fly 



Like chair from a threshing floor. 



He goes on Sunday to the church. 



And sits among his boys ; 

 He hears the parson pray and preach, — 



He hears his daughter's voice, 

 Singing in the village choir, 



And it makes his heart rejoice. 



It sounds to him like her mother's voice, 



Singing in Paradise ! 

 He needs must think of her once more, 



How in the grave she lies : 

 And with his hard rough hand he vr'ipes 



A tear from out his eyes. 



Toiling— 'rejoicing— sorrowiug— 



Onward through life he goes : 

 Each morning sees some task begun, 



Each evening sees it close — 

 Something attempted, something done, 



Has earned a night's repose. 



Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, 

 For the lesson thou hast taught ; 



Thus at the flaming forge ol life. 

 Our fortunes must be wrought — 



Thus on its sounding anvil shaped 

 Each burning deed and thought. 



ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. 

 Dress. Nothing looks inoro unpleasant to us, 

 than to see a young man wlidse wages are small, 

 spending nil he can get, and perhaps more too, for 

 (Ircsa; — every thing about his pcr.son of the latest 

 fashion and of the nicest fit, as tlimigh his whole 

 mind was centered upon seeing how pretty he could 

 look — and all for what? To gratify the eyes of 

 those who are as foolish as himself. But this he 

 does not Ho, for even they are disgusted with him. 

 Instead of pleasing nny body, he only makes liim- 

 self the pity of the wise, and n laughing stock for 

 fools. 



" I hale to hear people talk beliind one's buck," 

 as the robber said when the constable was chajiing 

 him, and crying "stop lliief!" 



Birds sing less in August than in any other 



month. Ladies chatter the least in February 



The former of these curious facts in natural history 

 has some mystery about it — but the why and where- 

 fore of the latter is found in the fact that February 

 is the sliorlesl inontli. 



Sdtnliftc discuvtry. The editor of the St. Johns 

 Morning News, has discoveied that k'ac* -berries 

 are red when they are green. Good, lor a IHut- 

 nose. 



Industry. Industry is not only the instrument of 

 improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He 

 who is a stranger to it, may possess, but cannot 

 enjoy — for it is labor only which gives pleasure. 

 It is the indispensable condition of possessing a 

 sound mind in a sound body. 



IVhal does he mean ? A country editor, after 

 enlarging in full and glowing terms, on the advan- 

 tage of giving charcoal to sheep, observes in clos- 

 ing, "ire have tried it." 



Reader, learn a lesson from the falling leaf — im- 

 prove every hour in the spring of your days, for 

 the time is not far distant when your autumn will 

 come, and you, like the leaf, will fade, sink to the 

 earth, and mingle with the dust 



Many of the greatest tnen the world has produc- 

 ed, have sprung from the humblest origin — as the 

 lark, whose nest is on the ground, soars nearest to 

 heaven. Narrow circumstances are the most pow- 

 erful stimulant to mental expansion, and the early 

 frowns of fortune the best security for her final 

 smiles. 



A new mode of dispersing mobs has been dis- 

 covered out west, which is said to supersede the 

 necessity of military force. It is, to pass round a 

 contribution box. 



The Dutch are as famous for " bulls" as the 

 Irish. "I po iostch two cowsh," said .Alynheer — 

 " unt von vash a calf, unt two vash a bull." 



That inveterate punster, Theodore Hook, onoe 

 declared thai he could not see upon what principle 

 the teetotallers made water the god of their idola- 

 try, since water is universilly allowed to have been 

 drunk from time immemorinl. 



A gentleman writing a deed, began with " Know 

 one woman by these presents." " You are wrong," 

 said a bystander, "it should be, "Know ail men." 

 "Very well," answered the oilier, "if one woman 

 knows it, all men will, of course." 



The entire population of Francestown, N. H., 

 constitutes the christian congregation of the town. 

 The church consists of 500 members. There pro- 

 bably is not a parallel to this in all New England. 



An editor of a Pennsylvania Journal apprizes 

 his delinquent subscribers that he has appointed 

 I he sheriff his agent, and has authorized him to 

 give receipts and close accounts. 



One of the editors of the New York Express had 

 his pocket book stolen the other day. The thief 

 must be green to expect to finil any thing in an 

 editor's pocket. 



A farmer who had married a rich wife, after pro. 

 mising another of meaner circumstances, endeavor- 

 ed to palliate his conduct to a clergyman, who told 

 him it was so wrong Ihal he did not know any thinn- 

 like it. " If you do not, I do," says Hodge : " it is 

 similar to your leaving a poor parish for a rich one." 



INSTINCT. 



A person in Scotland had occasion to send a fln 

 specimen of the spider tribe to a medical friend i 

 Dundee who was excedingly curious in such mal 

 ters. As the readiest means of conveyance, he ct 

 closed the spider in a common square box, and des 

 patched the parcel by stage-coach. The spidt 

 found the box too round for comfort, — and as h 

 was also discommoded by the jolting of the coaci 

 he had recourse to a simple and ingenious remed; 



When the parcel reached Dundee, and the bo 

 was opened, tlie spider was found safely siding i 

 a fine hammock that he had spun for himself an 

 suspended in the middle of bis prison-house b 

 cords attached to the four lop-corners. 



It has long been known that bees display exlrc 

 ordinary sagacity in overcoming difficulties of fort 

 or situation, and it would appear from the abov 

 mentioned instance that spiders share to some e> 

 tent in the same kind of instinct. 



CONTAGIOUSNESS OF CRIME. 



Bulwer, in his last work, entitled, "Night an 

 Morning," makes the following just observatior 

 on tlie contagiousness of crime: "It may be ob 

 served tlial there are certain years in which, in 

 civilized country, some particular crimes come i 

 vogue. It flares its season, and then burns ou 

 Thus, at one time we have burking, at anothe 

 swingism ; now suicide is in vogue — now poisor 

 ing tradespeople in apple dumplings — now littl 

 boys cut each other with penknives — now commo 

 soldiers shoot at their Serjeants. Almost ever 

 year there is one crime peculiar to it ; a sort of ar 

 nual, which overruns the country but does nc 

 bloom again. Unquestionably, the press has 

 great deal so do with these epidemics. Let 

 newspaper give an account of some out-of-the wa 

 atrocity that has the charm of being novel and cei' 

 tain depraved minds fasten to it, like leeches.— 

 They brood over and revolve it ; the idea grow 

 up a horrid phantasmalian nionomalia ; and, nil of 

 sudden, in a hundred dilTerenl places, the one see 

 sown by the leaden types, springs up into a foi 

 flowering. But if the first aboriginal crime ha« 

 h.is been attended with impunity, how much mot 

 docs the iinitative faculty cling to it. Ill-judge 

 mercy falls, not like the dew, but like a great hea 

 of manure on the rank weed." 



PRINCE'S NL'RSERIF.S AND GARDE.^S 



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and I'lams, Bulbous Flower Roots, and l);ihliaj 



(!rc,n House Plants, tiardcn Sieds, &c., all of which at 

 now at much reduced prices. 



Orders, per mail, to WM. R. PRINCE, Flushing, will n 

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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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