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KIDD'S OWN JOURNAL. 



It shines o'er many a whispered pledge, 



By fondness told again, 

 In cowsheds by the woodland hedge, 



'iVeath hawthorns by the lane. 



It brings the balm to summer nights, 



Like incense from afar, 

 And every musing mind delights 



To hail the Evening Star. 



Yes ! Evening, and the Evening Star, are 

 just now objects of great delight. They 

 quiet the mind and refresh the spirit. We 

 may return home, distressed in mind ; rest- 

 less ; fidgetty ; cross. Aye, the world does 

 sometimes sour the best of us, and makes 

 us hasty. Poor erring mortals ! 



Oh! we do all offend; 

 There's not a day of wedded life, if we 

 Count at its close the little bitter sum 

 Of thoughts, and words, and looks, unkind and 



fro ward, 

 Silence that chides, and woundings of the eye, 

 But, prostrate at each other's feet, we should 

 Each night forgiveness ask. 



Well done, Maturin ! Human nature is 

 alike in all. 



Those who will be wise (or foolish) 

 enough to make comparisons between the 

 various kinds of pleasure of which the mind 

 of man is capable, will find that there is none 

 (or but one) equal to that felt by a true 

 lover of Nature, when he looks forth upon her 

 open face silently, at a season like the 

 present ; and drinks in that still beauty 

 which seems to emanate from everything 

 he sees. Soon will his senses be steeped in 

 a " sweet forgetfulness." He will indeed 

 become unconscious of all but the instinct of 

 good which is ever present with some of us, 

 but which, from opposing influences, can so 

 seldom make itself felt — such is the conta- 

 minating influence of the busy, living 

 world ! It is a great thing to be sensible 

 of this. 



The only other feeling which equals that 

 which we have just described, in its intense 

 quietude and its satisfying fullness, is one 

 which is almost identical with it. We mean, 

 when the accepted lover is gazing unob- 

 served, and almost unconsciously, on the 

 face of his mistress, and tracing those sweet 

 evidences of that mysterious, holy union, 

 which already exists between them. We 

 say " already " exists between them, because 

 there are eternal harmonies, eternal sym- 

 pathies. People are found, who were born 

 united. In process of time, they meet ; 

 friendship naturally ensues, and ripens into 

 love. Then arises that mutual attraction 

 towards each other, that inward sympathy 

 between two beings, which the finite under- 

 standing of man cannot explain. It is not 

 " the fashion " to believe such things ; yet 

 are our observations nevertheless true. This 

 sympathy is felt with pure delight by those in 



whose hearts it manifests itself. It is a 

 spark of spreading fire springing up from 

 mysteries which may be truly called — 

 Elysian. 



OEIGIHAL COBRESPONDENCE. 



Goats, Remarks on Keeping, fyc. — The value of 

 goats' milk, few persons, Mr. Editor, can be igno- 

 rant of. By chemical analysis, it has been shown 

 that it is much richer than that of the cow. " 100 

 parts of each, according to M. Regnault, gave on 

 an average : — 



Cow. Goat. 



Water 847 ... 82-6 



Butter 4*0 ... 4'5 



Sugar of milk and soluble salts 5*0 ... 4*5 



Caseine (or cheese curd) and 



insoluble salts 6.3 ... 9-0." 



When mixed with more than its own bulk of 

 lukewarm water, it is then, in every respect, 

 superior to the milk supplied by the London 

 dairymen. In cases of illness, its worth is 

 inestimable. Your Correspondent should give 

 his goats, at milking time, some split beans ; and 

 at all times he should contrive to keep them in 

 good condition. Great attention should be paid 

 to the water they drink, and a few pieces of iron 

 always kept in it. The goats will never touch 

 any other water while they can get this. As for 

 their food, they will eat anything. If they are 

 allowed to wander abroad, they will cost very 

 little to feed — for they thieve all that comes in 

 their way!— S. H., Heywood. 



[We gave some very interesting details on this 

 subject, in our last number.] 



Abstinence from Food. — Eew persons are aware, 

 Mr. Editor, how long it is possible for animals to 

 go without partaking of food. The following 

 remarks, if worthy a place in your admirable 

 Journal, are quite at your service. They are 

 the result, partly of reading — partly of observa- 

 tion. The more animals enjoy the qualities of 

 youth, strength and activity, the greater is the 

 increase and development of their parts, and the 

 greater the necessity for an abundant supply of 

 food. Of many individuals exposed to an 

 absolute abstinence of many days, the young are 

 always the first to perish. Of this, the history of 

 war and shipwreck offers in all ages too many 

 frightful examples. There are several instances 

 on record, of an almost total abstinence from food 

 for an extraordinary length of time. Captain 

 Bligh, of the Bounty, sailed almost 4,000 miles 

 in an open boat, with occasionally a single small 

 bird not many ounces in weight, for the daily 

 sustenance of seventeen people; and it is even 

 alleged, that fourteen men and women of the 

 Juno, having suffered shipwreck on the coast of 

 Arracan, lived twenty-three days without any 

 food. Two people first died of want, on the fifth 

 day. In the opinion of Rhedit, animals support 

 want much longer than is believed. A civet cat 

 lived ten days without food, an antelope twenty, 

 and a very large wild cat also twenty ; an eagle 

 survived twenty-three days, a badger one month, 

 and several thirty-six days. In the memoirs of 

 the Academy of Science, there is an account of 



