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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 6, 1820. 



IKIISCSI.ZiAXTXX:S. 



THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP. 



A young man at Norfolk, Virginia, became de- 

 rano-ed in consequence of the death of the girl he 

 loved, and suddenly, disappearing from his friends 

 was never more heard of, and as he had frequently 



yet lie tlnuks hiniselt' one of the cleverest chaps in , The butchers at Avignon, in the South of France 

 the lane, and laughs through all his stories as if have a curious process of skinning an ox : air i 

 there was a spice of wit in them. He accosted thrown in under the skin by a pair of bellowi 

 me to-day as I was going to dinner — and this is which air is then forced forward by beating tb 

 an important business vvitli me, for I am an old inflated hide with clubs. (See N. E. Farmer, pag 

 man, and my working days are nearly over. "Good 60, vol 



morning, uncle Oliver, I've a word to say to you" , Mr Ilavis, of Slough, has published the result! 

 said in his ravings, that the girl was not dead, but | _uWell— 6c short, I'm called to dinner" — " Oh ^n experiment for ripening wall-fruit, by coverin 

 had gone to the Dismal Swamp— it is supposed he ] yes, I'll be short," but egad before the fellow had the wall with black paint, which has completfll 

 wandered into that dreary wilderness, and liad | explained tome how his pig had gotten into his succeeded, besides adding to the weight of gram 

 died of hunger or bipsn lost in some of its dreadful (.ell.,], and overturned his milk pans, the pudding nearly two thirds. fEno-lish pa.l ° ° 



._ i.:.u ; .„ ,i,„ ♦"■'"""""" was as cold as a stone, and worthy damo Dorothy 



almost uttered a complaint. 



Short speeches, short stories, short courtships — 

 a wise man will always be short in these things. I 

 never knew a sliort sermon that was not more lik- 

 ed for it — a short story that had not tne more pith 

 in It — or a short courtship that was not more for- 

 tunate than a long one. I showed a lad, who had 



amp, 



morasses ; which gave occasion to the foUowin 

 lines by Moore. 



Thf-y made her a grave too cold and damp 



For a soul so warm and true, 

 And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal S 

 Where all night long by a fire-fly lamp 

 She paddles her white cauoe. 



And her fire-6y lamp, 1 soon shall see, 



And her paddle I soon shall hear. 

 Loving and long our life shall be 

 And I'll hide the maid in a cypress tree. 

 When the footstep of death is ni-ar. 



Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds 



His path was rugged and sore. 

 Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds 

 Through many a fen where the serpent feeds, 



And man never trod before. 



And when on earth he sank to sleep. 



If slumber his eyelids knew. 

 He lay where the deadly vine doth weep 

 It's venomous tear, and nightly steep 



The flesh with blistering dew. 



Fruit and Ornamental Tru 

 Shrubs, Sfc. 

 STEPHEN K. IVIILI.H & C 

 (late Prh.Cf & Mills) proprieU 

 of the extensive Nursery at Flin 

 ing, Long Island. near iVew Y« 

 ofl"er thi ir very clioice and «t 

 been running after his sweetheart two years, old coZ/pf/ionof Fruit Trees of all the various kinds towhi 

 cousin Jeremiah's long purse, which measured they not only give their /^erjonni aWaiMon, but whi 

 , ,,. , 1 u 1 u : ■ 1 • 4. .1 \\:<ve ihe slill greater adrantaet. 01 bemz inzt^Wi.'Hn 



halt a yard, and had but a smgle si.xpence at the ,,^^^;,,^ . rees whose accuracy has been tested, th 

 bottom— he borrowed it to take down to Charlotte s, ,h, r,.,„re solicit with the fullest confidence the patn 

 and they both took a hint from it and got married age of the public. 



at once. ! The Trees, Shrubs, &c. are in the most thrifty i 



But the fashion of the times is contagious— Tell healthy state, the correctness of every sale hy them 



11 ., . .11 1 I 1 * II 11 guaranteed, and the same attention observed in the 



all the story-tellers, and speech-makers; tcU all ? . .' , , 



r. , ,,, 1- ■- lection as it the purchasers were present. 



manner of good people, how pleasant a thing it is Or.lers will receive faithful and prompt attenU 



to — " Be short." and catalogues furnished on application to HKNRY 



BILLINGS, agent for the proprietors, .No. 18 Id 

 wharf. ep4t i?ept. 2t 



brake 

 is ear 

 awake- 



And near him the she-wolf stiri'd th 

 And the copper snake breath'd in 

 Till he starting, cried from his dream 

 " Oh ! when shall I see thedusky lake 

 And the wiiite canoe of my dear?" 



He saw the lake and a meteor bright 



Quick over its surface play'd : 

 Welcome, (he said.) my dear one's light ! 

 And the dim shore echo'd, for many a night 



The name of the death cold maid. 



Till he hollowed a boat of the birchen bark, 

 Which carried him off from shore. 



Far he followed the meteor spark ; 



The wind was high and the clouds were dark 

 And the boat returned no more. 



But oft from the Indian hunter's camp 



This lover and maid so true, 

 Are seen at the hour of midnight damp 

 To cross the lake by a firt-fly lamp. 



And paddle their white canoe. 



From the Trenton Emporium. 



Spain. — The population of Cadiz is reduced to 

 40,000 — a few years ago, it was 65,000. The 

 frequency of executions at Madrid, has produced 

 so much feeling among the people, that, when 

 they take place, the whole girrison is under arms. 



Dr. Paris, the author of pharmacologia, a gentle- 

 man well known to the medical and scientific 

 world, in a work he has lately published, very em- 

 phatically deprecates the practice of lighting rooms 

 and buildings of public resort with Gas. He tells us 

 that the gas contains carburetted hydrogen, which 

 is a deadly poison, and even in a state of great 

 dilution it exerts a very baneful effect upon the 

 nerves. The Doctor states that he had attended 

 many patients who had derived pains in the head, 

 nausea, and distressing languor from inhaling 

 unburnt gas in the boxes of a theatre. 



Dr. Paris also relates an experiment made by 

 Sir Humphrey Davy, in inspiring a quantity of car- 

 buretted hydrogen gas, which had nearly cost Sir 

 Humphrey his life. 



Mr Greenwood, proprietor of the New England 

 Be short.— Bovae people have a round about way Museum, has received from Mr Endicott of Salem, 

 of getting at things which is as wasteful of time as a few pears which he lately took from the tree 

 it is trying to the patience. I wish the Printers brought by his ancestor. Gov. Endicott, in 1628.— 

 would notice it in the paper, and advise every The tree appears to be reviving, and new branches 

 body, on all manner of subjects to " be short"— I ^re springing out from the old trunk. It this year 

 shall be so. jjag produced 5.^ bushels, being a greater quanti- 



Whatcanbemorevexatious, when you are just ty than usual for one year, during thirty years 

 going about your ordinary business, and perhaps pa^t. But the fruit is not quite so good as com- 

 in a hurry too, than tor some idle fellow to take ^^n. Some of tlie pears may be seen at the Mu- 

 you by the button to say " only a word," and de- geum. [Boston Gaz.] 

 tain you half an hour, in durance vile, lisleninn- 



to a story without beginning, middle, point or enl. ^'•'^ ^""'i" crackers, grated, and four ounces of 

 In which every little particular is intermingled colu roast lamb or veal,seasoned with mustard.vine- 

 with interminable digres.sions, silly comment, "and ^ S^""' ^^^'^^ pepper and' sweet oil, is said to make 

 tiresome fal-de-ral. Take such an one by the ears, '^". excellent dish, called mock lobster. Let our 

 and tell him to " be short," under the penalty of ; '"P"="res try it. 

 losing them. 



JAMES BLOODGOOD & Go's 

 IViirsery at Flushing, on Long Island, near A 



York. 

 j^SI^I^ IN he alf of the proprietors of the 

 niiisery, the subscriber solicit- Ihi 

 horticulturists who may be d» sirous ofl 

 :irdeus and fielHs with fruit trees of lh< 

 sorts and most healthy ai.d vigorous storks the 

 autumn. 



Bi.noDcooD & Co attend personatly to Ike inorf 

 and engrtiflir.gnf nil their fruil Iren, and 

 may rely with confidence that ilie liees they 

 pr-ive gfnuine. 



The subscriber, agent of the above nursery, WB 

 ceive orders tor any quantitv of 



FRUIT A.M' FURE?T TRF.F.S, 

 FLOW Ell! NG SHRUBS, 



AND 



PLANTS. 

 And the trees will be dtlivered in this city at tlii! 

 and expense of the Purchaser ; the bills may be 

 to him. 



The teputalion of this nursf ry is so extensively kn 

 and has been so well sustained that 1 take leave U 

 fer those in want of trees to any of the Ho' licull 

 in tlds city and its vicinity, and if ocular demons] 

 is desired, I invite those who wi-h to be thus sal 

 to examine the trees in my garden at DorchesI 

 cured from this nursery for three or four yeai' 

 some of wdiirh are now in bearing, all in a heal 

 vigorous state. 



Catalogues will be delivered gratis on appi 



to ZEB. COOI 



Rogers' Building— Congress 9 



Boston. August '251 h 1R26. epif. 



To Farmers anrf Agriculturists. ' 

 WHITE MULBERRY TREE SEED| 

 GEoR<iE .VloRUoCK. >.o. 14 Market Square, rapi 

 received from V. inclhani t ounty, Connecticut, ^|l 

 quantity of White Mulberry Tree sc ej, ol this a 

 growth. The exx;eUence of the leaf lor the food 

 Silk Worm is too well known to need further 1 

 mendation. 6t. AogusI 



[ The Niagara (U. Canada) Gleaner savs Mr. ^f 



My neighbour Lewis Longyarn, has cost me { Parker, the greatshecpfeeder,in thattown,slau>rh- tlt;7f"^'''*'i'''^ >-^f" '"^^y «' 1 hree liollars |k1 

 more time than two cows are worth, within six tered one the other dav. tlie quarters of whTch >"™' .''i'P''!'' '^ "''" ^"'' "'"'h'; y^ar-but those 

 months, by this very species of ill manners-and | weighed upwards of L20 pounds-rough tallow, 27. i ^^t^uTe d t o a deduction oTrlft; Cents '^ 



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