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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



JAM'ARY 18. IS-'T. 



seaassisis. SAWS'. 



iFrom tlie Porldniouth Juiirnnl.] 



TO ALEXINE.IN HER FIRSTYEAR. 



'T is said, my little promised one, 



The fashion is with men, 

 To toast quite young their lady loves, 



And hillct doux to pen. 

 But don't you think it very queer, 



That I should make such speed, 

 To set me down to write thfise rhymes 



For one who cannot read ! 



And yet, — and yet it may not be 



A matter of surprise. 

 For many stranger tilings liefal 



Young ladies with black eyes. 

 Perchance that yours may scan this line, 



On some far distant day. 

 When they are glistening in their prime, 



And 1 am turning gray. 



And will those playful orbs, so bright. 



Smile on ine then as now, 

 And will you come so willingly, 



When years have decked that brow ? 

 And when your pulse is beating quick, 



And mine is failing fast. 

 And when this cheek has lost the glow 



Of youth, which cannot last, 



.Say, sweet one, will yon come and sing, 



As now you seem to do, 

 Some stirring song, or plaintive note 



Of )ove so kind, and true .' 

 Alas ! alas ! I fear the set 



Of childhood's radiant star. 

 Will leave mo bowing in the sphere, 



Where nice old ladies are ! 



Yes, dear one ! that keen archer's hand 



Your cousin's form will bend. 

 And you'll " obey, and honor" him, — 



But only " as a friend." 

 You '11 come to him for sage advice, 



Just at that time in life, 

 When you are thinking to become 



Another's blooming wife. 



Ah ! at the wedding, I shall be 



One of the drollest sights, — 

 A prim old fashioned gentleman, 



In spectacles and tights ! 

 Well, be it so, — and if my days 



Are gladdened by your smile. 

 Your doting, gray-haired kinsman will 



Be happy all the while. 

 Boston, Jan 2, 1837. J. T. F. 



ligence from mcessity. In the warm lii.xuriniis 

 south, they would l.ave been just such people ns 

 Soutlierners are — in Italy thpy would be as ef- 

 feiriinate as any Italian — in Asia tliey never 

 would have built factories, though tliey had the 

 best water power in the world — in fact, 'any 

 whore but in New England tliey would liave been 

 anytliiMi? but the s.-iiie hard, wide-awake, bold 

 toc-the-inark sort of men and women that they 

 are. 



If, then, New England character is any thing, 

 New England winters are every thing to that 

 character. Let the winters be improved then. — 

 Read, read, read, newspapers books, every thing ; 

 improve the time an study and reflection which 

 cannot be given to business ; store your minds 

 with the history of other Republics, see when 

 and how they fell — of other peo|jle, see what 

 are their springs of prosirority, what the rocks on 

 which they split ; improve your hearts and your 

 understanding, and thank your Creator that he 

 has so ordered it, in liis providence that yon can 

 become the best, the liapjiiest, and the greatest 

 people on the earth. 



You sot of a fellow!" exclaimed a poor woman 

 to her hnsliand, " you arc always at the public 

 house, getting drunk with hot ]iurl, while I am at 

 home with nothing to drink, hut cold water." 



" Cold, you silly jade," hiccoughed the hus- 

 band, " why don't you warm it ?" 



The sum of Human Happiness. — '' Were 1 

 offered the choice," said Byron, " either to live 

 nv^r again, or to live as many years more onward, 

 I should certainly prefer the first; yet my young 

 days have been vastly more unhappy than I be- 

 lieve those of men commonly are. I attempted 

 to enumerate the days I had lived, which might, 

 according to the commoa use of language, be 

 called happy. 1 could never make them amount 

 to more than eleven, and I believe I have a very 

 distinct remembrance of every one. I often ask 

 myself, whether, between the present time and 

 the day of my death, I shall be .-ible to make up 

 the round dozen." Such is the sum total of hu- 

 man happiness ! 



An .Arabian caliph, who wrote his own life, as- 

 sures us that he had fourteen days of hajipiuess. 

 Gibbons tolls the story after hitn, and boasts that 

 he had exceeded the commander of the faithful 



h:: does not stale bow much, perhaps by 



double. 



Were I to choose n)y lot in life I vvrnild not be 

 a poet, th High it is possible for a poet to get 

 through life tolerable easy — yet the chances are 

 against him. 



After all, a bustling man of busine.ss, one who 

 has not leisure to think of the ills of life, nor any 

 great aculenyss of sensibility to expose him to 

 their attacks — si cli a man has the best chances 

 of human happiness. 



Some Frenchman I foi-get who, has stated, 

 that, to enjoy this world, one must have good 

 stomach and a bad heart; I think a man may 

 have both, and be very miserable. To be happy, 

 be devout. 



Winter Evenings. — Winter is a glorious 

 thing, cold as it may be, cheerless as it may seem 

 to be, and we too frequently really make it. If 

 New Englanders have the character of industrious, 

 active, energetic, intellectual ]>cople — no other 

 means in this world so much as the cold days and 

 long evenings of Winter have made them so. 

 They have been industrious from necessity — 

 they have decided and read and reflected from 

 necessity ; they have become a singular people, 

 respected everywhere for their energy aiid Intel 



A GOOD o'NF. — A gentleman asked a vv.ig the 

 other day, the reason why so many of the taU 

 gentlemen were bachelors? The reply was that 

 " they were obliged to lie corner wise in the bed 

 to keep their feci in, and a wife would be in the 

 way." 



A small boat containing si.v persons, was upset 

 in the North river by the ice, and Jive of tliem 

 were drowned. 



The Rlercury sunk on Tuesday, Sth inst. at 10 

 o'clock, to 18 below 0, and yesterday morning at 

 6, to 21 below. — Keene JV. H. Sent. 



In the Boston and Providence Rail Road case, 

 the Court have given a verdict in fa\or of Iht 



Plaintiffs. $20,000. 



Lord Brougham has given twentyfiive thousand 

 dollars to the London University. 



A fire broke out in Johnstown, Montgomery 

 County, N. Y. on the 2.5tli ult. which consumed 

 the largest and fairest portion of that village. 



A terrible avalanche occurred a few weeks since 

 in the State of New York, by which six lives, six- 

 teen horses and much valuable property was lost. 



Another awful shipwreck, which cost the lives of 

 108 individuals, recently occurred on the New 

 York coast. 



I'racticf. — Does not always make perfect. 

 Curraii, when told by his physician that he seem- 

 ed to cough with more ditficuity replied — "That 

 is odd enough, for I have been practising all 

 night." 



"I say, neighbor Holgo, what are you fencing 

 up that are pasture for? forty acres of it would 

 starve a cow!" "Right," rejilied Hodge, "I'm 

 fencing it up to keep the cows cut." 



TO PL.Ot'GH.lIEW. 



The subscriber has upwards of 300 acres of meadow land, 

 now ill sO(i, near the cilj of New York, that be wishes 

 nlcmg'ietl as ear'y in the coarse of ilie no.\t year .is practicable. 

 He wishes lo contract lor the whole, or any part, ll must be 

 ploughed four iiirhes deep, th-' furrow must be turned com- 

 pletely ever, s(t thai' I'le., wiiole wi!l lie flat. To plough a 

 Ejreat part of this land, advjitilageoiisly and speedilv , a d'lubji; 

 team ol liglit cattle is preterable to one pair of heav\' oxen. 

 Provender for men and cattle, can be i^rocured on the prem- 

 ises. Ap(.;Iy by letter, directed lo Anthony I)e\', INo. G3 

 Corlar street, cornel <tr Nassau street, New York, by mai' or 

 ollicrwtse, slating lernis, &c. .'V. DEY. 



New York, Nov. 30. 



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 Cinrinniili — S. C. PAHKHUKsT,i3 Lower Markel-street. 

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 West Ih-atl/'ord, Muss. — IIai.e<&. </0. Booksellers. 

 Tciunion, Mass. — Sam'l O. Ddnbab, Bookseller. 

 Ilart/oril — Gooipwi.v iV f'O. Booksellers. 

 Neuilmt-yport — KiiKNK/.ER Steiimam, Bookseller. 

 Portsmoulli,N. H.— John W. Foster, Boi. seller. 

 Wondsioc!.-, Vl.—J.A. Pratt. 

 BrattlebcTo' — Jos Stees. Bookseller. 



lianiror, Me. — Wm. Mann. Druggist, and Wm. B. Hari.ow. 

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