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NiEW ENGLAND FARMEll. 



SMCZSCIII.I.A.':^ IBS. 



LONDON LYRICS. 



The Lees and the Laivsons. 

 if you can on th^• Lees, north of Bloomsbury square, 

 They welcome you blandly, they proffer a chair, 



Decorously mild and -well bred : 

 Intent on their music, their books, or their pen, 

 Employment absorbs their attention, and men 



Seem totally out of their head, 

 iryon call on the Lawsons, in Bloomsbury-place, 

 No fabrick of order you peem to deface, 



No sober arrangement to break : 

 They lounge on the sofa, their manners are odd, 

 Men drop in at luncheon and give them a nod, 



Then run to the Sherry and Cake. 



The house of the Lees has an orderly air, 



It sets with its brethren of brick in the square, 



A model from attic to basetuent : 

 The knocker is polish'd, the name is japann'd, 

 The steps, unpolluted, arc sprinkled with sand. 



White blinds veil the drawing room casement. 



The house of the Lawsons is leule autre c/iosf, 

 It certainly proffers no air of rep«se. 



For one of the girls always lingers 

 Athwart the veranda, alert as an ape, 

 To note to her sisters the forthcoming gape, 



Be it monkeys or Savoyard singers. 



Whenever the Lees to the theatre stray, 



The eingers who sing, and the players who play, 



Attentive, untalkative find 'em ; 

 With sounds to allure them, or sense to allract, 

 They rarely turn round, till the end of the act. 

 To talk with the party behind 'em. 

 The Lawsons are bent on a different thing: 

 Miss Payton may warble. Miss Ayton may sing, 



To listeners tier above tier: 

 They hted not song, character, pathoior plot, 

 But turn their heads back to converse with a knot 



Of Dandies who lounge in the rear. 

 In life's onward path it has happen'd to me 

 With many a Lawson, and many a Lee, 



In parties to mix and to mingle : 

 And somehow, in spite of manoeuvres and plans, 

 I've found that the Lees get united in bans 



While most of the Lawsons keep single. 

 Coy Hymen is like the black maker of rum — 

 " De more massa call de more I vont cnme," 



He flies from ihe forward and bold : 

 He gives to the coy what he keeps from the kind, 

 The maiden- who seek and them..idens who find. 



Are cast in an oppcisite mould. 



ty. lie hardly has time to carry home this new 

 member of his family, \vl;en in comes witliout 

 knocking (for good breedinc; is out of the ques- 

 tion with these gentry) the man of the Law, and 

 told him the law allowed but one hog, and as he 

 had now two, he should take the f:it one away. — 

 Chagrined, the poor man now saw the length and 

 depth of his creditor's generosity, he told the 

 sheriff his family depended on the hog for a sup- 

 port, and if he would wait in t!>e house a few min- 

 utes he would go and get security ; the sheriff 

 consented, lie went therefore and took the poor 

 pig, cut his throat, and then called out the slieritf 

 and told him the security lay before the door. 

 Pittsfidd Argus 



Ancient Latin MS. — The learned Angelo Mai 

 who is now employed in exploring the libraries of 

 the kingdom of Naples has discovered an ancient 

 manuscript, which was at first supposed to be a 

 Latin classic, but wliich proves to be a treatise on 

 agriculture. The manuscript itself appears to he 

 of the 5th century. The work, which i< much 

 more ancient, is written in very pure Latin. In it 

 are cited Diophanes, Dioscorides, Julius Atticus, 

 Nicesiys, and Greek authors unknown to our 

 time. 



Greek. — A ploughman was asked, on a cross- 

 o.xamination, whether he could read Greek ; this 

 appeared to be a new problem lie had never taken 

 the trouble to solve ; therefore, with as much na 

 viete as truth, he replied that he diJ not know— 

 because he had never tried. , 



Encouragement to Frankness Some years 



a^o, says Richardson, in h'u anecdotes of paint- 

 ing, a gentleman came to me to invite me to his 

 house : " I have," says he, " a picture of Rubens, 

 and it is a rare good one. There is little II. the 

 other day came to see it, and says it is a copy. If 

 any one says so again, I'll break Ids head. Pray, 

 Mr Richardson, will you do me the favour to 

 come, and give me your real opinion of it." 



" Sweepers in High Life as well as in Lou:" — 

 A certain poor gentleman not twenty miles from 

 Pittsfield, whose scanty property was proof against 

 the law, owned a hog, wiiich he had taken much 

 pains to I'vX — a certain rich ere litor would fain 

 have satisfied his demand by sending one of those 

 saucy gentlemen, who are always Greeting the 



Utility of a knowledge of Arithmetic and Book- 

 keeping to a u>oman — From Franklin's IVorks, 

 page 103. 



" In 1733, 1 sent one of my journeymen to 

 Charleston, South Carolina, where a printer was 

 wanting. I furnished him with a press, and let- 

 ters, on an agreement of partnership, by which I 

 was to receive one third of the profits of the busi- 

 ness, paying one third of the e.xpenses. He was 

 a man of learning, but ignorant in matters of ac- 

 counts, and, though he sometimes made me re- 

 mittances, I could get no account from him, nor 

 any satisfactory state of our partnership, while he 

 lived. 



" On his decease the business was continued by 

 his widow, who being born and hied in HoILind, 

 where, (as I have been informed,) the knowlcdfre 

 of accounts makes a part of female education, she 

 not only sent me as clear a statement as she could 

 find, of tlie transactions past, but continued to ac- 

 count with the gieatnst regularity ami e.vactness, 

 every quarter afterwarls, and managed the bu-i 

 noss with such success, that she not only respr-i-f 



poor man, to destroy bis hopes. But the law 



which leaves the poor man one hog, fo'-bade him. 'V,°' i!" ' "T ' '"""'"""''""'"'"''" 'J' '^"^l' " 



_ . ,. .. ' .,'''.„ ably brougut up a family of children, but at the 



So in his exceeOing compassion! he is U at once ■ .■ .• ./ . n » u e 



. . ,, 7 1 , , ,, , • , , . e.xpiration of the term, was able to purchise of 



very charitable, and would kill his debtor with ., ■ .• ■ . i . i i i i ■ . 



, . ■'. , . . . ,, . ,,,, me the printing house, and establish ber son in it. 



kindness — he gives him a small pig. The poor ■ •■ »i.- «• • i- a c .i i r 



,? , ,." .."^I menlion this affair, chii'fiv for the sake of re- 

 man thanks him a tliousand times, and departs i- -i . i u ' r j .- r 



, . , ■ , , ' . conimendinn' that branch of education for our 



wonaering at the rniser s unaccustomed eenerosi n t . u c . .u 



^ ^ - young women, as likely to be of more use to them 



■ June l.j. 182/'. 



and their children, in casfi of v,iiio-.vliood, t 

 either music or dancing, by preserving them ' 

 loiises by impositions of crafty men, and enab 

 them to continue, perhaps, a profita'ble raercai 

 house, with establislied correspondence, till a 

 grown up to umlertako and go on with i 

 the lasting advantages and enriching of the f: 

 ly."- __ 



At a meeu,i_ t.i the acting committee of 

 Pennsylvania Society for the promotion of Ma 

 facturosand the Mechanic Arts, it was unanitiK 

 ly recommended to the Delegates appointed to 

 tend the Convention at Harrisburg, to procure 

 bring to the Convention lists 



1. Of the number of merino and cominon slji jnHein 

 in each township, and the average quantity of ei (InitPi 

 kind of wool shorn, together with the prices 

 which each kind was sold in 1825 and 1826, 

 those they command at present. 



3. The quantity .ind general quality of v, 

 used in families, by each farmer or owner 

 sheep 



3. Such facts and data as may be pr,icticall|loliiiC 

 from which a reasonably correct calculation of 

 ture increase of sheep may be formed 



4. The number of furnaces and forges, t!ie qu> niw? 

 tily of iron made, and the general state of the i; 

 trade, so highly important to the interest of 

 state of Pennsylvania. 



5. The state of manufacturing establishmei 

 generally, the number of persons employed^ 

 them, and their effects on the prices of lands, v 

 of tlie produce of the soil. 



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 ■mill 



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RO.M.AN. 'I bis elegant, lull blooded hnr.«e, a bri 

 bay with black legs, mane and tail, of high spirit 

 fooi! temper, will stand at the farm of .Mr •'^tt-pl 

 Williams in N'.rthborough (Ms.) at $20 'he season 



he paid before the mares are taken away See P 



England Fariier, May '2r<. 



tlitec 

 imtl 



BEI.LFOU.N'DtCH. 'I bis cel.brale.i horse, . 

 bright Bay, wi!h black hgs standing 15 hands higll 

 celebrated trotter, and a true descendant of the F' 

 aways, will stand at Col. .laques' stable, in Char 

 town, during the season. Charge $20, and itl ,00 

 groom — see New England Farmer, ,Vay 4, 1K26. 



J. Sf A. Falcs' Patent Hoes, 



Constantly for sale by French & Wild. 31 & 32 Sol 

 Market street, sole affents for vending (hi same. 



Ilsir 



Allum and Refned Salt Petre. 

 Constantly for sale in lots to suit purchasers by 

 COPF.I.^ND. ir. Xo. G5 Broad Street. 



Sholt — Balls — Flints — and — Percussion Ca^ 

 of the best qualify at wholesale and retail. 



Gunpowder 

 for sporting — shipping — or blasting rocks, at the lowi- 

 pric«f, and in suck quantities (wholesale and retail) 

 naay be required. 



floman Vitriol 

 of a superior quality, for sale as above by the ct'sk i 

 larger quantity. 3m March 35 



THF, A!)Mil5'\I-. The Suhscriher inlbrms 

 who are desirous of improving by this fine imperii 

 imal, that he will hek.pt on the larin of.Ioliii \i 

 sq. Horchester, near the Uev. l>r Codmaa's m.c 

 HoiI?e, til' further, notice. Tirois thrfe dollars. 

 •\pplr to A. GRFFNWOOD on said 1^,: 

 lam''Pm <■■ > 



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FaKMFR i^ I.liblis'vd V IV Friiir 



annum, if paid in advanc 



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Oenllemen who prornn Fiv responsible 9Ub?ci 

 are entitle»l 'o a ,?j.t//i Totume rratis. 



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