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regularly at a stated hour to a particular place, 

 where they shall find ready prepared for them a 

 well-furnished trough. No slow learner is your 

 pig. Cunning is he as a Jew, and quite as greedy. 

 When your first lesson is given, ever afterwards 

 open your stye-door at the appointed hour, and 

 away will scamper the whole drove, as if their 

 lives were in jeopardy. I once knew a heavy 

 wager to be won by this manoeuvre.— Verax. 



Nankin Bantams. — The Nankin bantam should 

 be small, of a pure Nankin color throughout, 

 clean legged. Single combed are preferred, but 

 the rule is not so imperative as in the Sebright. 

 The carriage should be proud, and the head and 

 tail brought as near together as possible. They 

 should only have four toes, and are not worth 

 more than one-sixth of the value of the gold and 

 silver -laced. — J. Baily, Mount Street. 



Ferocity of the Pheasant.— A. correspondent 

 some time since observed, Mr. Editor, that his 

 pheasants were fierce. Hear what the Rev. L. 

 Jenyn says of them, in his " Observations on 

 Birds." I had no idea until now, of their high 

 courage and overbearing propensities: — "The 

 cock pheasant sometimes exhibits feats of great 

 daring and fierceness, even attacking man. I was 

 once staying with a friend, who had a bird of this 

 character in the plantation near his house, which 

 was accustomed to make frequent sallies upon 

 persons passing near the place of its resort. I 

 saw it myself fly boldly at the proprietor of the 

 grounds, who purposely approached the spot in 

 order that I might witness the extent of its 

 courage and ferocity. It commenced pecking 

 his legs, and striking with its wings ; pursuing 

 him for a considerable distance down one of the 

 walks. He said, that he generally carried a 

 stick to beat it off whenever he went that way. 

 Some wood-cutters, who were at work close by, 

 were in the habit of protecting their legs with 

 strong leather gaiters from the attacks of this 

 bird, which was constantly interrupting and an- 

 noying them in this manner." — What a pity, 

 that so handsome a bird should be so quarrel- 

 some! — John T., Dulwich. 



FIE ST, — AND "ONLY" LOV.E. 



BY THE AUTHOR OF " A COLD." ' 



{Concluded from page, 349.) 



If such, then, be the agonies of first -love, 

 when blighted in its early stages, those which 

 accompany its destruction after it has been 

 fostered into a second nature, are far 

 severer. Of all cruelty, that of the parent 

 is the most severe, who, through timid or 

 wary policy, permits her child to indulge 

 hopes — only that they may be disappointed. 

 Let her kill them at the birth ; this will be 

 mercy, compared to their slaughter after 

 months or years of existence. Snap the 

 links of love at this advanced period, and 

 you often loosen those of life along with 

 them. A withered heart will be their me- 

 lancholy tomb ; and if the salvation of a 



single soul outbalances the thousands of 

 worlds which compose the universe, how 

 can a parent think that years of wealth or 

 grandeur can balance against the agonies of 

 a broken heart ? 



Such are some of the sorrows that attend 

 the ruin of faithful love. Yet, bitter as they 

 are, they constitute but a small portion of 

 those which too often seduce misery to 

 crime. What have been depicted, are the 

 sorrows of a virtuous mind. Nothing has 

 been said of that gulf of nameless guilt, to 

 which the weaker victims of disappointed 

 passion are too often tempted. Yes, there 

 is many a one, at this very hour, sitting in 

 her solitary apartment, and wringing her 

 hands with shame, who, had she been wedded 

 where love and nature intended, w x ould have 

 been the darling of society, and a model of 

 virtue. But we will revert to a brighter 

 prospect. 



What a wonderful thing is the human eye ! 

 Creation rolls across its glittering ball — it is 

 the mirror of the mind, and betrayer of our 

 deepest sympathy. And how still more 

 wonderful is it, in its immediate communi- 

 cation of love ! A youth enters a company, 

 throws a glance on the countenance of some 

 fair one, and in an instant both their eyes 

 convey to each other more than years could 

 communicate.* They feel themselves at- 

 tracted to each other by an indescribable 

 sympathy. It is not the form or the features, 

 singly; but the form, features, feeling, and 

 sensations for which our language has no 

 name, which altogether create a charm that is 

 eventually felt. In short, they love ; and 

 feeling will soon find its way to words. 



In speaking of first love, let not a mere 

 passion be understood. This is not love in 

 its godlike reality. Pure first love is the 

 affection of two noble minds, certainly not 

 passionless, but with just enough of passion 

 to warm and beautify its intellectuality : — 



The pure, open, prosperous love, 



That, pledg'd on earth and sealed above, 



Grows in the world's approving eyes; 

 In friendship's smile, and home's caress, 



Collecting all the heart's sweet ties, 

 Into one knot of happiness. 



This is the love approved of by Heaven, 

 and sanctified by nature. It is the love that 

 ennobles, refines, and exalts the heart. 



* How beautifully true! Yes, this extra- 

 ordinary sympathy is indeed " indescribable." 

 It goes far to prove the intensity of truth existing 

 in the adage — " Marriages are made in Heaven." 

 Two hearts become " one " in an instant of time. 

 Their eyes meet; they feel alike, think alike, hope 

 alike, fear alike, love alike. As easily could 

 you exhaust the ocean by means of a small 

 syphon, as extinguish their love by separation or 

 death. This is true love. All other is mere 

 moonshine. — Ed. Iv. J. 



