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NEW ENGLAND FARiMER. 



Dec. 21, 1827. 



MISCELLANIES. 



[From the Bijou, for 1828.] 

 ON A LITTLE GIRL. 



EY WM. FR.ISER. 



'I'h.il beauliful and starry bniM', 



Willi youth and joy all splendent now — 



Can it be marred by years ? 

 'i'hat passionless and stainless breast. 

 Where innocence hath raised her nest — 



Blust it be racked by fears ? 

 That glowing cheek and sun bright eye 

 Whence laughter wings its archerj' — 

 » Will it be stained with tears ? 



Such is, alas ! the bitter doom 

 That wails each tenant to the tomb ; — 

 Vad how canst thou, young bud of beauty, he 

 t^xcluded from the pnle of destiny ! 



IJut years will pass nor leave behind 

 One stain upon thy seraph mind — 

 Then, come, thou fearful age ! 

 And tears that rack thy breast may provt 

 The token sure of passionate love — 



Such is love's hermitage ! 

 And tears from pity's fount will flow^ 

 And on the cheek full sunny glow, 



Of joy the tbnd presage ! 

 Thy days shall onHarrl wi^ig their way, 

 Like the month of fragrance-breathing Rlay: 

 Or should Grief coioe thy beauties to ensiiroud. 

 It shall [i::^- ■■''■r ihne like.an .April cloud. 



the witty Joseph Miller lias recorded it in his laugh- taste previous to that age, will applaud his advice, 

 -' j ter stirring volutne. A pninter was desired to make j but such as may meet with husbands to thpir mind, 

 I a hatchment, on which was the motto " Sic transit! will judge of their own fitness, and laugh at the 

 I gloria inundi." It so happened that ho was desired Doctor. 

 j to deliver in his performance on a Monday ; it was 

 not however, finished before the succeeding day, 

 j and as a proof of liis attention and ticcuracy, he 

 j altered the motto, and delivered the melancholy 

 : emblem of deatli to his customer, with the follow- 

 I ing alteration, " Sic transit gloria Tuesday". 



A fine woman ought to add annually to her ac- 

 complishments, as much as her beauty loses in 

 the time. 



Pinter E"en{"gs. — The intelligence and often 

 the success of farmoriJ, depend on the manner 

 their VViiitei evening's are spent. The privilege 

 The dan cf small thivgs.— A dealer in cut and ^f ,|e^„„„^, ,hp,„ ,„ the acquisition of useful infor- 

 dog meat, in London, has lately placed over his ^,,,jg^ j^ .,^^ ^^j^y^j ^^ uninterruptedly by any 



door, in golden capitals, the following word 

 "cat and dog meat bazaar." 



class. — The farmer's pursuits of the day invite 



him to draw near the fire; and if he has a taste 



.. . .1 tac\i .u 1 ei » for useful reading, particularly for that connected 



About the year 1821, the good State . , , ."' "^ •' . . 



with rural pursuits, we scarcely can imagine one 



{■ilK)6'l.\lAS. 

 Right well our Christian Sires of old, 

 Lov'd, when the year its corjse had roll'd, 

 And broughl bhthe Christmas back again 

 With all its hospitable train. 

 On Christmas eve, the bells were rung — 

 On Christinas eve, were anthems sung ; 

 And Christmas blessings oft would chci^r 

 The poor man's heart, thro' half ll'.e yp.,-:r. 

 Ali h^iiled v.-iih uncontrol'd delight, 

 .And general voice, t!ie httppy ni^ht, 

 That to the coltige, os Hie c-oic), 

 Tirongkt tidings o/salvaiion dcxvn. 



Pedlars 

 of Massachusetts swarmed with a race of long- 

 sided, cunninar, guessing, question-askinu, hypo- 

 critical, bargain-making rogues, who prosecuted 

 their trade with inderatigable diliL'ence. 



The pedlar, taking his cargo of tin trumpets, or 

 adulterated essences on board a vehicle, looking 

 more like a minint'Te of Noah's ark when it rest- 

 ed on the mountains of .Millbury, than any christian 

 conveyance — or packing his needlps and thread, 

 his combs and calieoe.';, in a huge bo.\ strapped 

 over his shoulders, roaming to and fro on the 

 earth, seeking whom to cheat, fiis home was 

 every where, and his dw-fllin^'' place in iiU habita- 

 tions of man dr beast. You might find him in the 

 public room of the tavern, roun 



to spend his time more rationally and h.'ippily. — 

 Knowing that all his live stock are well fed and 

 taken care of, and haras.ied with none of the an.K- 

 ielies ot those whose biiRiness is connected with 

 thousands, ami liable to ten thousand reverses, he 

 can give his mind wholly to the sentimenis anti 

 reasonings of his author. 



But many who camiot command more than one. 

 two. or three hours at .i time, e.xcuse theniselve-t 

 from reading alto- ether. The father acts on this 

 principle, and the sons follow his example ; and 

 thus it is that there are not more e.Ntensively read 

 and enterprising firmers. Let us now make some 



ipon his path among 

 [ the hills of the north, and his declining beams 

 jli 'hted thp eternal pedlar on his way to the sea 

 I shore. He intruded himself on the domestic priv 

 ; acy of every home, and his ine.\haustihlp elo 

 quencc yielded him many a penny of profit on bis 

 j miserable wares. Sometimes with the hardy en 

 terprize of Nfw Englaml character he crossed 

 ' the mountains, nnd vended iiis v;ooden nuimesiR 

 i and pumpkin seeds amnna' the astonished natives 

 1 of the west, whose exhausted purses and length- 

 ened faces bove testimony to the superiority of 

 Yankee skill in cheatage over their own ingenu. 

 ily. True it v;as, the farmers' children had their 

 I tcet!) set on edge by entin? sand instead of su^ar, 

 and our village belle often mourned over the 

 transitory splendor of her so-to-meeting ?own — 

 o'orie vf E illy Blade's Conundrums. — Why is a and the sick man died after takin? the poisonous 

 .short negro like a while raan .' Because he is drug; but still the pedlar was a favorite visitant, 

 not a {nil Hark. land his trains grew ^reat when resting on such a 



Why i.t a man about to take a ;;;:.. ss of brandy, i prolific source as public credulity. These golden 

 like a man going to beat his wife? Because he j days, how^ever, could not aluavs last. Our puliti 

 is going to lick-her. ckI fathers issied nn edict to prohibit thf trade of 



Why is 1<U. Fi.ldler's brewery like a public the itinerant merchant, nnd wandering vagrants 

 liOu.so which Jufts resort to .' SecauiO //>; 4?-e!CS ( vi-ere compelled to betake themselve.^ to- other 

 drink in it. '.Stales. The terror of the law, for 8 space, freed 



Why is the monlli of a hard drinker like au In- [the good people from the visitations of those vaara- 

 dia viibLer over-shoe? Becau.se it never his in j bonds — hut in process of time, finding flic statute 



, J. . „ calculation of the time that could be employed in 



|/i.>-.,^ ivyu.,, ,.i ,.,,,5 ..uvt,. ..,..;.>..... " r », the acquisition of useful informntion. from the age 



the tanner, or snuCTly rested in a corner of the .„ „„ „ , , , .- 



, rr, ■ ■ i I.- .1 ot fourteen to fiftv.— Suppose thai three hours ot 



nam. 1 he rising sun shone upon his path among , ^ '^ ^ , c ■ >. j 



CHURCH GOERP. 

 Two lovely ladles dwell at — 



And each a churclung gjes ; - 

 limuia ^oes there — to cbs'i her c~yc.^\ 



.\n-,l Jane — to ens her clutUcs, 



the twenty-four, for fo.r days of each week dur- 

 injT the si.\ Winter months, were spent in useful 

 rearlinsr. This would Hinount wlieri he would ar- 

 rive iit .50 years of age. to ll.2."9 ho rs. If he 

 read 20 pages pf-r hour, it would be V24,640 pag- 

 es. Allowing each volume to contain 224 pages^, 

 it would amount to one Ihounand volumes. Now, 

 what would be the result of thus devoting this 

 small portion of !iis lime ? It nonld give a rig'ht 

 bent to his mind — lend to prevent him froinspend- 

 inu' his time and money at improper places — he 

 would become acqiiaintei' with the stiite of agri- 

 culture in bis o vn country, and in others — be- 

 coire more eiiterprisins;, and be enabled to use to 

 better advantTire t'le meat's '■. ithin his reach, and 

 thus become a more successful cultivator of the 

 soil. In fine his taste for knowledt'e would in- 

 crease; he would become a more valuBble citizen, 

 a blessin? to his friends and neisrhhonrs, and 

 more likely to desr-end with afrcy hairs in repose 

 to his grave. — JV. Y. Farmer. 



S>iperinr Tulips. 



F..r.'nile at the office of the New Rnglaiid Farmer, a further 

 siiiiply of Dutch Tuliiis, ai a innder.itc p-ice. 



.*Iso,ar«w POl'AT OMONS— with every variety of fiVr-- 

 f.Vij &ed», F^ou-ei- Smh, S^c. 



water. 



Finally — Why iire these conundrums like the 

 new novel of "The Buccausers ? Bacause they 

 .re hardly worth reading. 



A s'lneiiiaker for the purpose of eclipsing an 

 opponent who lived opposite to him, put over his 

 door the well known motto of "Mensconscia recti." 

 Wis adver.sary, to offer a more general bait to the 

 public, placed a bill in his windows, with those 

 words, " Mens and Womens conscia recti." This 

 anecdote brings to our recollection a joke which 

 may have escaped some of our readers, although 



Bremen Gtsc. 



showed its teeth without bitinj. fbev bpjran to ro- 1 For sale. 3 pair of this .superior breed cf Geese; they are &- 



, . - , , ,,,. ,. . 1 ridedlv S"perior to ihe common breed, n the great ?i2c they jii- 



turn and infest our borders. Within a few years, i ,.,j,, j^ j^; f^^.i;,,. „;,), „.l,:,h ibcy may be raised, and in «he 



their depred.ntions have been bold ond frequent. ' eomparaiivclv "rii'l nnnntiiy of grain required to fatten ihem.— 



IVorce.-^Ur.lEiris. ' j Inquire at tSs office. 



A'Vifi Enrrln'id Farmer's Mmnnnrk, for 1828. 



Just published, at the New FnglanH Fiirniei f^flice, and 



for sale hv Towlks & Dv.akbor-;. 7? Wasbin£r'or .^ireel. anJ 



at the Hookstnivs gcner.-illy, the .Vnr F,7K-limd Farmer's Almir- 



By Thomas G. Fe.ssenden. Editor of the New 



England Farmer 



Early Mnrriasces. — A medical correspondent of 

 the Portland Patriet thinks it would be advanta- 

 geous for females to pass their twenty fourth or ^^]f] for V.'5?s' 

 twenty-fifth year, before they suhject themseWes 

 to the caies and fatii/ues of a married life ; as the 

 constitution of but few women can he regarded as 



The Farmf.r is luiblished every Friday, at $3.00 

 „ , ..,.,, ,., r. »i. • . .■ .u I per .tTinnm, or cfj'J.SO if paid in adiancc. 



firmly estahhslie'' until after their twentieth year. I }-jgnt;e,„en ^ho proeure/ft-e responsibU sulscribers; 



e entitled to 2t.si.xlh volume fratis. 



Every female w.'ho d.>es not have an offer to licr 



