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to take, are not superfluous.” Oh, no; very plain 
cheap ones are not so. I only want you to count the 
cost of carriage, and risk of injury and loss, before 
you decide to move lumber of any kind. 
Another piece of advice, that is very necessary for 
your happiness to be strictly followed, is, that you 
come to a full determination, that happen what will of 
perplexity or privation, you will keep up a continual 
cheerful spirit. This also is due to your husband 
and father, who will need all the smiles and love of 
his wife and children, to enable him to endure the 
toil and trouble of making you a new home, that in 
a few years will compensate you all for the tempo¬ 
rary inconveniences that you have enjoyed, —yes, en¬ 
joyed, not suffered; for I assure you that you can 
enjoy inconveniences. My wife, God bless her, 
often says that she never enjoyed any portion of her 
life better than she did the first winter upon the prai¬ 
rie, where we now live; when she had only a low 
log cabin, sixteen feet square, which had not a sawed 
board about it; being built of round poles, the cracks 
filled with mud ; the chimney built of sticks and clay; 
around the warm hearth of which often had we half 
a score of emigrants, who had nowhere else to shel¬ 
ter themselves from the blasts of a wintry night; for 
be it remembered, that we began our emigrant’s life 
fifteen miles from neighbors,” and enjoyed it 
cheerfully. So my dear friends, can you. 
I could advise further, but nobody likes unasked ice 
advice. Believe me, your old friend of Indiana, 
New York, Oct. 6th, 1845. Solon Robinson. 
Bogs’ JBtpartwwnt. 
A Delicious Apple-Pudding ; Very convenient 
as it may be made several hours before it is baked 
or when a nice addition is wanted unexpectedly.— 
Pare and chop fine, half a dozen or more, according 
to their size, of the best cooking apples—grease a 
pudding-dish, cover the bottom and sides half an inch 
thick with grated bread, and very small lumps of but 
ter : then put a layer of apples with sugar and nut 
meg, and repeat the layers until the dish is heaped 
full. Before adding the last layer, which must be of 
bread and butter, pour over the whole, a teaspoonful 
of cold water. Put it into the oven as soon as din¬ 
ner is served, and bake it for 25 or 30 minutes. It 
may be baked the day before it is wanted ; when it 
must be heated thoroughly, turned into a shallow 
dish, and sprinkled with powdered sugar. It requires 
rio sauce. 
To pickle Eggs. —Any that are left from market 
and not wanted for immediate use, make a nice and 
very pretty pickle to garnish cold meat with. Boil 
them until quite hard, take off the shells, put them 
carefully in large mouthed jars, and cover them with 
cold vinegar, and they will keep well for several 
months. If white wine vinegar is used, they will 
retain their whiteness ; they may be made a beautiful 
yellow, and the flavor improved by the addition of 
yellow mustard powdered, or a fine red, by using 
vinegar in which beets have been kept. 
Spiced Vinegar. —This is preferred by some per¬ 
sons, and may be made by heating vinegar in a jar, set 
in a pot of cold water, which must be heated to boiling. 
Put in whole pepper, cloves of garlic, race ginger, 
cloves, salt; keep it closely covered until quite cold, 
end bottle for use. 
THE HISTORY OF THRIFT AND UNTHRIFT. 
(Continued from page 322.) 
Josefs Farming .—With Josey, or as we must now 
dignify him, Mr. Unthrift, things were quite different. 
He was going down-hill while Thrift was going up ; 
yet he took it as easy as he used to do his whippings 
at school, and thought himself equally as little to 
blame now as then ; in short, “ it was all his luck,” 
as he used to say. 
His fences were seldom all up at the same time ; 
and when they were repaired, which was never done 
till the last minute, they were just hitched together, so 
that the first unruly ox that came along, would tum¬ 
ble them over if he squinted very hard at the dwindled, 
stunted crops, growing on the other side. Indeed, the 
poverty-stricken appearance of the crops themselves, 
more often prevented depredation than the fences. 
He got up late, had his breakfast late, and never went 
out to work before he ate it. By this time, the dew 
was off, and none of it was hoed into the ground, or 
moistened the grass to make the scythe cut easier. 
He plowed late, sowed late, planted late, and harvest¬ 
ed late ; but he had one great advantage in all this, 
for he had so little to gather, that it never took a great 
while to secure his crops; or if the storms, snow, or 
did get them at last, he always consoled himself 
with the idea, “ that really he hadn’t lost much—they 
w r ere hardly worth gathering ” He had a very good 
orchard on his farm ten years before, thanks to the 
owner who preceded him, but the wind had broken 
off some of the branches, and for want of trimming, 
the broken and dead limbs had rotted down to the 
trunks, and made the bodies quite rotten, and the fruit 
itself had become stunted and wormy, and didn’t beaT 
much of any; and the few it bore, were only fit for 
the hogs, which, for the want of suitable attention, 
matched very well with the apples. These he had 
procured by years of breeding, peculiar to many of the 
farmers. He always killed the best pigs because they 
were fattest, and as soon as he got one into the pen 
that would not fat at all, he said she would have pigs 
just as well as any others, and ’twas a pity to save 
the best, as they were worth something for pork. His 
sheep were neglected and got the scab. He consoled 
himself by denouncing the whole flock as a mis-be- 
gotten race, and unworthy his regard, and turned them 
on to the common, where the dogs and crows soon 
removed both sheep and scab together. His cattle be¬ 
came poor from short allowance and want of attention ; 
and as misery loves company, poverty was soon fol¬ 
lowed by lice, and thinking them too degenerate for the 
attention of a man of his expectations, he called them 
a lousy, drivelling race of Pharaoh’s lean kine, and 
traded them off for anything he could get in exchange, 
old muskets, fish-nets, and a trooper’s second-hand 
rig. His house was leaky, wanted shingling, but in 
rainy weather he couldn’t go out to do it, and when it 
was fair he didn’t want it; so his wife was taken sick 
from damp rooms, his children had the scarlet fever, 
and he got a confirmed rheumatism which lasted him 
for life. The remainder of Thrift and Unthrift’s ca¬ 
reer shall be given in your next volume; in the 
meanwhile 1 hope all your young readers will take 
lesson from what is already inscribed them by 
A Friend to the Boys. 
