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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



THE FRKNCH PEASANT. 

 When things are done, and past recalling-, 



'Tis folly thon to fret and cry. 

 Prop up a rotlen house that's falling, 

 But when it's down, e'en let it lie. 



O, patience, patience, thou'rt a jewel, 

 And like all jewels hard to find ; 

 'Mongst all the various men you see, 



Examine every mother's son, 

 V'ou'll find they all in this agree. 

 To make ten troubles out of nnc. 



When passions rage they heap on fuel, 

 And give their reason to the wind. 



Hark, don't you hear the general cry 



" Whose troubles ever equall'd mine ?" 



How readily each slander by 



Replies, with captious echo, " mine." 



Sure from our clime thb discord springs, 



Heaven's choicest blessings we abuse, 



And every Englishman alive, 



Whether duke, lord, esquire or genC, 



Claims, as his just prerogative, 



Ease, liberty, and discontent. 



A Frenchman often starves and sin^s 



With cheerfulness and wooden shoes, 

 W 

 A peasant of the true French breed, 



Was driving in a narrow road, 



A cart with but one sorry steed, 



And fill'd with onions, savory load I 



Careless he trudg'd along before, 



Singing a gascon roundelay — 



Hard by there ran a whimpering brook, 



The road ran shelving towards the brim, 



The spiteful wind th' advantage took. 



The wheel flies up, the onions swim. 



The peasant saw his favorite store. 



At one rude blast all puffM away. 



How would an English clown have sworn. 

 To hear them plump, and see them roll, 

 Have curs'd the hour that he was born, 

 And for an onion d — d his soul ! 



Our Frenchman acted quite as well ; 



He stopp'd, and hardly stopp'd, his song ; 

 First rais'd his bidet from his swoon, 



Then stood a little while (o view 

 His onions bobbing up and down ; 



At last he, shrugging, cried " Parbleu, 

 U ni mauqne ici que de sel, 



Pour faire de potage excellent.'"' 



or dissipation, which you should lay by for the 

 benefit of your family. By all the laws of God 

 and man, of justice and love, tliey have an ex- 

 clusive claim on whatsoever you can earn, and 

 every unnecessary induli^ence which yon take 

 apart from them, is at tlicir expense and injury. 

 Consult your wife, especially in all cases of diffi- 

 culty ; 'tis her interest as well as dutu to give 

 you the best advice she can. Never keep her 

 ignorant of your circumstances ; this has been j 

 the uneJoing of millions of tamilies. The wife 

 who deserves the name, will not fail to econo- 

 mise^ when she knows that her partner's circum- 

 stances require it. lie not much uneasy though 

 the world should sometimes think she has her 

 full share of influence. Women of good sense 

 seldom abuse their husband's confidence. And 

 you will see few happy families in which the 

 wife is either a slave or a cypher. 



Mutual happiness is your mutual object ; 

 yield therefore to one another. Be ye equally 

 yoked, is the command of God ; but neither seek 

 basely to throw an undue weight on the other's 

 shoulders. Sutler no interference from any quar- 

 ter to interrupt your harmony ; you are connect- 

 ed for life, — Nothing can separate your lot in 

 this world ; O let nothing divide your affec- 

 tions ; regard each other with the fullest con- 

 fidence ; the least spark of suspicion from ei- 

 ther, must forever blast the comfort of both. — 

 There can be no harmony where there is no 

 faith. 



A wife should not only love her husband, but 

 on every occasion shew him all the attention in 

 her power. Study by every means to make his 

 home comfortable, and inviting. Where the 

 treasure is, there ijinll the heart be also, and a man's 

 presence, as well as his heart, will always be 

 there most, where he has most pleasure. And 

 I w ill venture to assert it as a fact incontestible, 

 that he who finds his home a paradise, will sel- 

 dom stroll into the wilderness of the world. — 

 While on the other hand, a scolding wife and a 

 hot house have driven many a wretched hus- 

 band to a tavern, where cards, women, and wine, 

 have sealed his own and the destruction of his 

 family. 



* Nulhing is wanting here but sail, to make excellent 

 broth. 



A CLERGYMAN'S AODRESS TO MARRIED PER- 

 SONS AT THE Al.TAR. 



You, who are the husband, must treat your 

 wife with delicacy and tenderness. Nothing; 

 in nature is so endearing, so 'u^inning, so captiva- 

 ting, as tenderness; nothing creates aversion 

 so soon, so strong, so inveterate, as rudeness, 

 indifference, or disrespect. She is the weaker 

 vessel and depends on you for protection and 

 comfort in all her didiculties. For your sake 

 she has left her friends, her connections and all 

 the world ; and should she meet with a tyrant 

 instead of a lover, she may repent of this day 

 as long as she lives. Never incense nor insult 

 her; and as you wish to keep your own temper 

 and peace, ruffle not her's ; for crossness and 

 asperity, especially when they settle into mo- 

 rosencss, antl ill nature, are the qualities of a 

 savage, not of a christian. Never, on any pre- 

 tence whatever, scpiaudcr that in dross, drinking, 



NOBILITY — rioMi.vAi. a.\d re.\l. 



There is a story running through the paper.^, 

 that Matthews, the famous stage player and 

 mimic, being in company with his "• majesty of 

 England," when regent, the latter offered his 

 box, requesting that the player would oblcege 

 him (the regent) by taking a pinch of snuff. — 

 On which the other desired that the regent 

 would open his royal jaws a little wider, and 

 say oblige. 



The Boston Patriot, noticing this tale, put 

 afloat to honor the player, asks us to " figure 

 George ^Vashington laughing and holding his 

 sides at the mimickry of Charles Matthews, and 

 standing before him to have his pronunciation 

 corrected, in the Manner stated." The idea is 

 intolerable. The eye of Washington, in a case 

 like this, would have sunk the impertinent as 

 through the floor, and all his pranks and gibes 

 and jeers would have been . lost in reverence, 

 had he stood in the presence of that noble man 

 of nature, and perhaps no man that ever lived 

 had a countenance more strongly marked with 

 what is called "dignity',"' than the father of our 

 country. He was sedate and steady, yet not 

 austere — but never loosing sight of self-respect, 



he exacted it of others, without being sensible 

 that he required it ; and it is hard to suppose 

 that any person, with the least pretension to 

 character or standing in society, should have 

 spoken to him as Mr. Matthews is said to have 

 done to the ruler of kingdoms. 



A notice of the manner and appearance of 

 Washington, brings to recollection an incident 

 that 1 myself witnessed, and which, because it 

 relates to him, may be worth mentioning. The 

 gentleman with whom I served my apprenticei. 

 ship, in Philadelphia, kept a Bookstore, as well 

 as a Printing Office, at his house in [Market St. 

 He wonid not have more than two or tliree lads 

 in the office, and liberally allowed us free ac- 

 cess to the store lor the use of his books. As I 

 had a regular weekly task that I always per- 

 formed, it was my practice to rise early in tlie 

 summer and seat myself at the front door, where 

 I enjoyed the fresh air, and read generally about 

 an hour before the rest of the family were stir- 

 ring, and when but few persons were to be seea 

 in the streets. While thus occupied, Washing- 

 ton of'ten passed me in his morning walk, and 

 from repeatedly seeing me at the same place, 

 and in the same employment, frequently seem- 

 ed to give me an encouraging look, if our eyes 

 happened to meet ; to which he would some- 

 times add a kind nod of recognition. One fine 

 morning, just before the door 1 was sitting at, 

 he was met by two apparently respectable gen- 

 tlemen, whom, at the first glance, I put dowD 

 for foreigners, just arrived in Philadelphia. — 

 They stared at him with remarkable eagerness, 

 making a full halt to examine him, spontane- 

 ously, as it seemed to me, raising their hats 

 The general made a slight bow, as he passed . 

 they then rushed eagerly up to me, and asked. 

 '' what gentleman is that ?" I simply replied 

 " Washington." One of them then said, '^ B3 



, it is the most majestic man that ever I be 



held ," and they both rushed through the mar 

 kef house, retracing their steps, that they migh' 

 meet and look at him again. By their dress 

 manners and dialect, 1 thought that they wew 

 recently from London. — A'lles'' Register. 



FIRST BOOK AUCTION. 

 The first book auction in England, of whicl 

 we have any record, is of a dale as far back as 

 167G, when the library of Doct. Seaman was 

 brought to the hammer. Pre(i,\ed lo the cat* 

 logue, there is an address, which thus commen- 

 ces : " Reader, it hath not been usual here ic 

 England, (o make sale of books by way of auc- 

 tion, or who will give most for them ; but ii 

 having been practised in other countries, to the 

 advantage of both buyers and sellers, it wat 

 therefore conceived (for the encouragement 01 

 learning,) to publish the sale of these books ic 

 this manner of way "" 



The celebrated doctor Saunderson, the blind 

 mathematical professor of Cambridge, being ir 

 a very large company, observed, without anj 

 hesitation or inquiry, that a lady who had ju6i 

 left the room, and whom he did not know, hac 

 very fine teeth. As this was really the case 

 he was questioned as to the means he employee 

 in making such a discovery. " 1 have do rea- 

 son to think the lady a fool, said the doctor 

 and I have given the only reason she coule 

 have, for keeping herself in a continual laugll 

 lor an hour together."' 



