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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 7, 162/. 



JHtsccUanCcs. 



From " Absurdities, in Prose and Verse." 



THE LOVES OF THE CABBAGE AND THE 

 CAULIFLOWER. 



A Cabbage lov'd a Cauliflower ! 

 <How far beyond my Muse's power 



To tell how much they loved !) 

 *'Gh ! list unto a lover true, 

 To one, whose heart was formed for you !'' 



He said — she seem'd unmoved. 



*■ Ah ! tliink not 'cause my wounds are grcrn. 

 I speak thus warmly, fairest queen, 



Nor think me insmcere ; 

 For oh ! my love is firmly rooted ; 

 Nor is there one so aptly suited. 



To be my wife — my clear.'' 



Said she, " I heard the gard'ner sa^ . 

 Your heart was hard, the other day, 



Then can you love but me ?" 

 Said Cab, " You do not comprehend ; 

 The ffard'ner, love, you may depend. 



Did merely wish to ad me !"' 



" Oh then," the Cauliflower sigh'd j 



" Do you deem me worthy of your bride 



One of such small renown ?" 

 " Of small renown? What is't you .say ' 

 The gard'ner said the other day. 



Your head was ^\'orlh a croion ■'" 



•' Then take me for thy wife, my love I 

 With rapture ! can I ever rove ? 



No — no — I .swear by Venus !" 

 '' But why so distant V' Cabbage cried. 

 ■' So distant ?" said the lovely bride, 



" We'A-e but 07te bed between us '." 



How little thought the luckless pair 

 The cruel gard'ner was so near j 



{He came at set of sun j) 

 His knife from leathern case he drew, 

 And cut njf'boih these lovers true, 



For fear that they should ru7t ! 



AHABIAN MAXIMS. 



All secrets which pass heyond two, make them- 

 selves known. 



Where the heart is inclined, there also will the 

 feet turn. 



The little which'Buffices is better than the much 

 which disturbs us. 



The best of man's possessions is a sincere friend. 



The best of riches is contentment ; worst of 

 poverty, low spirits. 



Labor for this life as if thou wert to live forever: 

 and for the other, as if thou wert to die to-morrow. 



Desire not either tlie wise man or the fool for 

 thine enemy; but guard thyself equally from the 

 cunning of the wise man, . and the ignorance of 

 the fool. 



Who is a New Englander!-' He is well known in 

 ■every country and in every climate : he makes the 

 ocean add to tile riches of his country ; he gath- 

 ers wealth aniil the snows and ice of the Polar 

 regions ; for him Arabia yields her spires ; his 

 ships navigate every sea, and return richly freight- 

 ed with the produce of India and of the Isles of 

 the ocean ; his entefprize is proverbial from the 

 Arctic to the Antarctic circle. 



Who is a New Englander ? Ask at home, who 

 has introduced the arts and sciences amongst 

 you ? Who has raised and decorated the lofty 

 temples that adorn your city ? Who has enriclied 

 it, by tilling its stores with the produce and man- 

 ufactures of every country .' You may find him in 

 your tichools, Acadeiuies and Colleges, he adorns 

 your Pulpit, and gives dignity to your Bar and 

 Bench. 



Who is a New Englander ? Ask those who 

 have attempted to invade the soil, or abridge his 

 liberty. You may read his name in capitaLs upon 

 the monuments of Le.xington and Bunker's Hill, 

 where be voluntarily shed his blood in the defence 

 of his own and country's rights ; where the life of 

 his enemy paid the price of his presumption. Ask 

 Burgoyne, wlio faced him at Saratoga, and those 

 who engaged him on the Lakes of the North, ask 

 the bravest of the sons of the " fast aiichored Isle 

 of the Ocean," who had the honour to meet him 

 in " mortal combat, upon the bosom of the vasty 

 deep" They, without ilerogating from their own 

 honour, will point you to their scars, e.xtol his bra- 

 very and applaud his humanity. 



Tlie very name is associated witli every thing 

 great and venerable, in industry and enterprize, in 

 Arts and Sciences, in Civil and Religious Liberty. 

 It is a birthright, of which every man who posses- 

 ses it, may justly be prouJ, and in any other coun- 

 try but this, "One of Mr McDuffie's Constituents," 

 instead of considering it a term of reproach, would 

 give no small part of his inheritance to possess it. 



(Augusta, ( Ga.) pap.) A FR EEM AN. 



" I would suppose him to be a New Englander." 

 {One of Mr McDuffie's rmistituents.) 



Who is a New Englander .' I will answer the 

 question. He is a descendai.t of the Pilgrims, 

 who preferred death to bondage : who for civil 

 and religious liberty, left the splendid abodes 

 of slavery, braved the dangers of tlie ocean, and 

 fixed their residence among the savages in the wil- 

 derness. These same Pilgrims, under the auspices 

 of Liberty, patiently endured every privation, and 

 triumphed over every danger. Tlioy wrested the 

 tomahawk from the hand of its cruel possessor.and- 

 turned the wilderness into fruitlul fields. 



Who is a New Englander ? One who has been 

 taught from his infancy the strictest rules of mor- 

 ality and religion ; vigilantly to guard his own, e- 

 qually to respect the rights of others ; through his 

 own cnterpiize and industry he seeks Independ- 

 ence ; he cultivates his farm with his own liands, 

 and lives by the sweat of hi.s face ; he is free and 

 happy — doubly happy, in the freedom and happi- 

 ness of all around him. 



In the history of English literature there are 

 some glaring instances of plagiarism and impu- 

 dence, the more surprising because it seerns im- 

 possible tliat they could have been practised long 

 with success, or without detection. When Aken- 

 side's " Pleasures of tlie Imagination" first came 

 out in London, without the name of the Author, 

 Roll, a singular character of that day, went over 

 to Dublin, published an edition of it, and put Ins 

 own name to it. Boswell states that upon the 

 fame of this deception he lived for several months, 

 being entertained at the best tables as the " in- 

 genious Mr Rolt." His conversation, it is added, 

 did not discover much of the fire of the poet ; but 

 it was recollected that both Addison and Tiiom- 

 son were equally dull till excited by wine. A'i- 

 enside having been informed of the imposition, 

 vindicated his right by publishing the poem with 

 its real author's name. Mackensie's " Man of 

 Feeling" was assumed by Mr Eccle's, a young 

 Irish clergyman — He h.Td been at the pains to 

 transcribe the whole book, with bK.tUiigs and 

 interlineations and corrections, that it might be 

 shown to sevenl people as an original. The be- 

 lief of this with regard to Mr Eccles became so 

 general, that the publishers of the ivork deemed 

 it necessary to contradict the report through the 

 newspapers, and to declare that they purchased 

 the copy right of Mr Mackenzie. The Rev. Dr. 

 Campbell, of St. Andrews, wrote " An Inquiry in- 



to the Original of Moral Virtue." the manuscript 

 of which he sent to Mr James, a clergyman in 

 England, who was his countryman and acquain- 

 tance. James published it with his own name;— 

 and before the imposition was discovered, obtain- 

 ed considerable promotion as a rewardof his merit. 

 The celebrated Dr. Hugh Blair, and his cousin 

 Mr George Bannatino, when students at divinity, 

 wrote " The Rossurrection," a poem, copies of 

 which were hansjed about in manuscript. They 

 were at length much surprised to see a pompous 

 edition of it in folio, dedicated to the princess 

 dowager of Wales, by a doctor Douglas, as his 

 own. These facts are stated by Boswell. 



There is some aptitude in I)r Clarke's observa- 

 tion — 'I have lived to know, that the great secret 

 of human happiness is this: never sufi'er your en- 

 ergies to stagnate. The old adage of too many 

 iron/j in the fire, conveys an abominable lie. Y'ou 



cannot have too many ; poker, tongs, and all 



keep them all going." ^ 



Arnott, in his recent " Tour to the South of 

 France," says — 



" It is almost worth while to go to Perpignan to 

 see their national dances. I shall never forget 

 when, as if by the touch of a magician, all the fe- 

 males were at a particular part of the tune 'seated 

 on the slioulders of the men, and then put down 

 again on terra frma, the evolutions in the dance 

 being uninterrupted." 



Domestic Life — No man ever prospered in the 

 world without the consent and co-operation of his 

 wife. If she unites in mutual endeavours or re- 

 wards his labor with an endearing smile, with 

 what spirit and perseverance does he apply to hi= 

 vocation ; with what confidence does lie resort 

 either to his merchandise or far.m; fly over land, 

 sail upon the seas; meet difficulty and encounter 

 danger, if he knows he is not spending his strength 

 in vain, but that Iiis labor will be rewarded by thf 

 sweets of home ! How delightful is it to have :i 

 friend to cheer, and a companion to sooth the 

 solitary hours ofgriofand pain; solitude arid dis- 

 appointment enter into the history of every man's 

 life and he is but half provided for his voyage 

 who finds but an associate for happy hours, whrie 

 for his months of darkness and distress, no sympa- 

 thizing partner is prepared. 



Saxony Slice p. 



On THURSDAY Oct. 18 at 10 o'clock, 



The day succeeding the Agricultural Fair ' 



At Brighton, (near Boston) the en!ire"'flock of Electoral &,■<»/•. 



.S/i.-cp, imported in the ship Jlentor, Capt. Mann, 



from Hamburg, consisting of 



101 ElfES a»d 31 RAMS. 



ThescSheep were cArefullv splected by experienced .Tven'i 



for account of a highly rrsperiable House" in Leipsic and'will 



be found to excel any flock hitherto imported in regard in si;-. 



and, weight of fleece, will ihev arc not inferior in anv other 



particular. The large pn^portion of Kuto, of the finest qualitv 



were not procured without much di/iicullv ; and. in "cneral' 



such measures were taken as to warrant tlie expectation thit 



this flock will not sufler by the most rigid scnuiny of pei-«ons 



disposed to improve their stock by the introduction ofpiire Sar- 



ouif Blood. 



The Sheep may be examined at Brighton, at any lime before 

 the sale. 



Catalogues will be ready for delivery at our oflScc 20 dai s 

 previous— when Samples of the Wool «"ill be exhibited 



The Agent pledges himsf If thai none of the Slock will l>e 

 disposed of until the day of Auction, when ihev will all be sold 

 without rcser\ e. COOL IDGE. POOR & HE.\b 



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