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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



AtlGlST ir, IS1G 



gyiss^ns.Si^ss'S'. 



THE BRIDIE S FAREWELL. 



EY MRS. HEMANS. 



Why do I weep ? — to leave the vine, 



Whose clusters o'er me bend ? 

 The niyrlle — yet. Oh! call it mine? 



The flowers 1 loved to tend ? 

 A thousand thoughts of all things dear, 



Like shadows o'er me sweep, 

 I leave my sunny childhood here, 



Oh ! therefore let me weep ! 



I leave thee, sister! — we have played 



Through many a joyous hour. 

 Where the silvery green of the olive shade 



Hun" dim o'er the lount and bower ! 

 Yes ! thou and I, by shore. 



In song, in prayer, in sleep. 

 Have been as we may be no more — 



Kind sister ! let me weep ! 



I leave thee, father I — Eve's bright rtK>on 



Must now light other feet. 

 With the gathered grapes and (he lyre in tune. 



Thy homeward steps to greet ! 

 Thou in n hose voice to bless thy child, 



Lay tones of love so deep, 

 Whose eye o'er all my youth hath smiled, — 



I leave thee ! let me weep ! 



Mother ! 1 leave thee — on thy breast 



Pouring out joy and wo, 

 I have found that holy plaice of rest 



Still changeless — yet I go ! 

 Lips that have lulled me with your strain. 



Eyes that have watched my sleep ! 

 Will earth give love like yours again ! 



Sweet mother, let me weep ! 



pitably received you ; and can yon so mhospita- 

 b!y reject ine from your house ? 



Patrick. Reject you ! who talked a word about 

 rejecting you ? May be I am not the scurvey 

 spalpeen that you take me to be, John Wilson. 

 You asked me to let you lie on my floor, my kitch- 

 en floor, or in my stable ; now by the powers, 

 d'ye think Td let a perfect stranger do that, when 

 I iiave half a dozen soft feather beds, all empty ? 

 No, hy the Hill o^Howth, John — that's flat. In 

 the second place' you were dying with hunger, 

 and wanted a bone and a crust to eat ; now, hon- 

 ey, d'ye think I'd feed an imngry man on bones 

 and crust, when my yani is full of fat pullets, and 

 turkeys, and pigs ? No, by the powers, not I — 

 that's flat. In the third place, you asked me for 

 some simple water to quench your thirst: now as 

 my water is none of -the best I never give it to a 

 poor traveller without mixing it with plenty of 

 wine, brandy, whiskey, or something else whole- 

 some and cooling. Come into my hous;, my 

 honey ; you shall sleep, have the best supper and 

 breakfast that my farm can supply, which thank 

 the Lord, is none of the worst; you shall drink as 

 much water as you please, provide you mix it 

 with plenty of wine or spirits, and provided you 

 prefer it. Come in my hearty, come in, and feel 

 yourself at home. It shall never be said, that Pat- 

 rick O'Flaherty treated a man scurvily who has 

 been fighting for the dear count ry which gave him 

 protection — that's flat. 



ECCENTRIC HOSPITADITY. 



During the late American war, a soldier, who 

 had been wounded and honorably discharged (but 

 perhaps, not paid,) being destitute and benighted, 

 knocked at the door of an Irish farmer, when the 

 following dialogue endued : 



Patrick. And who are you, now ? 

 My name is John Wilson. 

 And where are you going from, John 



-COCOONS AND RAW SILK. 



The NorlJtaniplon Silk Company, will pa) (asli fnr'-ociHJT . 

 and Kaw Sik at their EslabljMhmeiu at the Oil Mill I are a 

 Norlhaniploii. 



The Cocuons should be stripped of the firss. ar.d placed ii: 

 llie sun ibree or four days in succession, to destroy tlie t-'brys- 

 alis, aiid should not be packed tor Iransporlation nil 'liey have 

 been gathered ^hree weeks. If iliey are put up belore well 

 cured, ihe damp ness from the dead Chrysalis wili cause ihcm 

 to heat and render them useless. They should be carefully 

 packed in dry boxes or barrels — not pressed but shaken down. 

 The Company will contract for any quantity to 10,000 bustiels, 

 io be delivered in good order at Northampton. Ttie price 

 will be regulated according to quality. Cultivators should tic 

 aware that a loss of fifty per cent is often made, by \\ant ol 

 attention in feeding. Consequently the price will vary — from 

 52 50 to ^5 00 per busliel wili be paid. It is the intention ol 

 the company, that this shall be a permanent market for Co- 

 coons ami 'Kaw Silk. Cocoons will be purchased by the 

 pound, as soon as the necessary experiments have been made, 

 to regulate the price according to the age of the Cocoons, as 

 it is well known, that they become gradually lighier lor several 

 months, till all moisture is evaporated. Cultivators in Ver- 

 mont and New Hampshire will find it convenient to forward 

 Cocoons by the River Boats. 



Communications (post paid) mav be addressed to 



SAMOEL WHITMARSH, 

 President, of the Northampton Silk Coirvpai>y. 

 June 8. 



ADVERTISEMENT, 



The subscriber, resident in Ihe city of Rochester, MoBroe 

 County in the State of New York, will attend to the collec- 

 tion of Mortgages, or any general land business in the County 

 of Monroe. Persons wishing to buy Farms in that fertile re- 

 gion, will find itfor their interest tocall on him as he has many 

 Farms for sale. WILLIAM ATKINSON, 



Land Broker, No. £7, Exchange street. 

 Reference to Col. Joseph May, 

 Edward Cruft, 

 Samuel May. Esq'rs. 

 Rochester, N. Y. March 5. 3m 



Soldier. 



Patrick. 

 Wilson. 



Soldier. 

 Sir. 



Patrick. 



Soldier. 



From the American army at Erie, 



.%id what do you want here ? 

 I want shelter to-night ; will you per- 

 mit me to spread my blanket on your floor, an ' 

 sleep to-night ? 



Patrick. D— 1 take tne if I do, John Wilson- - 



that's flat. 



Soldier. 



Patrick. 

 flat. 



Soldier. 



Patrick. 



Soldier. 



On the kitchen floor. Sir? 

 Not I, by the Hill o'Howth • 



■ that's 



— that's flat, 

 give me but 



" Come tinder my hat and save a ducking," said 

 an impudent fellow to a pretty little Miss, in the 

 street in Baltimore, on a rainy day — "There is 

 one calve' s head under it already, and that is as 

 many a.s it will cover conveniently," replied the 

 damsel. 



HoRSE-piTALiTY.— A strapping country girl, 

 after a short sojourn in the city, where she had 

 become acquainted with some jolly tars, returned 

 to her home, and invited some of them to come 

 and see her. At length they hove in sight, and 

 the girl ran to her mother, who had never seen 

 nor heard of a sailor, and said to her, " Marm, 

 there's some sailors coming !" "Well, darter, put 

 'em in the barn, and give'em some hay!" 



A GOOD cow.— An editor mentions a cow in 

 1 Delaware, that enables the dairy maid to make on 

 an average, twenty pounds of butter weekly 

 Boston editor exclaims " a constellation in 

 milky-ivay." 



Economy.— "Oh eat it up, dear — eat it up,^'^ 

 ays mamma. "I can't ma, I've ate enoiigh. 

 " Oh yes, dear, eat what's on your plate so tlicit it 

 needn't be lost." How common a piactice this is 

 stufiiug children beyond the wants of nature, ami 

 making them gluttons all their lives, so that the 

 scraps need not be lost. Precious economy 

 this ! 



A TRADING BRIDEGROOM.- After a marriage in 

 Connecticut, the bridegroom took the parson aside 

 most mysteriously, and whispered to him "Cant 



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the 



FRESH TURNIP seed; 



Just received at the New England Seed Store aquaatity of 

 While Flat English Turnip, for fall sowing. 

 June 3. t(* 



BOUND VOIjUMES of THE S1I.K MASTUAI.. 



For sale at the Agricultural Warehouse and New England 

 Seed store, Ihe firsi volume of the Silk Manual and Practical 

 FMuier, neatly bound. Price 6i!J cents. 



^'e tjook contains 192 pages, and a great amount of val- 

 ^^ble information on the subject of Silk Culture, It is dcci- 



May 4. — ■" t^nnlj. extant, that treats upon thai subject 



BIRD SEEDS. 



For sale at the New England Seed Store. Canary Seed, 

 Rape Seed, Hemp Seed and maw Seed lor sick birds. 

 Jude22. ^^____ 



COCOONS WANTED, { 



The proprietors of the New England Seed Store, connected 

 with the New England farmer, are ready to purchase Silk 

 Cocoons in any quantity, for which the highest ma_rke^t^ price 

 willbe paid. 



June 22. 



THE KE'W ENGLiAND FARMER 



Is published every Wednesday Evening, at §3 per annum, 

 .ayable at the end of Ihe year — but those who pay within 



i from the lime of subscribing, are entitled to a de- 



In your stable then ? 

 1 will not do that either 

 I am dying with hunger 

 a bone and a crust ; I ask no more. 



Patrick. 1 will not — that's flat. — .. 



Soldier. Give mc some water to quench my yg,, take the pay otit in tatoes!" 

 thirst 1 beg of you. 



Patrick. Beg and be hanged, I'll do no such 

 . thing, that's flat. 



Soldier. Sir, I have been fighting to secure tha 

 blessings you enjoy ; 1 have contributed to the 

 glory and welfare of the country which has hos- 



Singer's excuse.— a famous musician who 

 had made his fortune by marriage, being request- 

 ed to sing in company, " Permit me," said he, "to 

 imitate the nightingale, who never sings after he 

 has made his nest." 



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