MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTU RAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
BEATING TIME. 
POWER OF THE IMAGINATION. 
> For a good many years past, we have A very remarkable case of the influence 
-. . .~~~~— all been engaged in the very laudable of imagination occurred between sixty and 
N0IE3 BY ASMODt^US,—AT HOME. amusement of beating time; and the tele- seventy years since, in Dublin, connected 
womxn’s rights graph folks may now boast truthfully of with the celebrated frolics of Dalkey Island. 
It is not long since the wrongs of women having annihilated him What a catas- It is said Curran and his gay companions 
. .. . , trophe for that sinewy old chap, whom we delighted to spend a day there, and that 
were feelingly dilated upon, and mos e o- uged tQ reS p ect s0 on the covers of with them originated the frolic of electing 
quently discussed at Worcester, by some of the Farmer’s Almanac, with his long beard, a “King of Dalkey and the adjacent 
the choicest female spirits of the land.— scythe and hour-glass, and of whose prow- islands,” and appointing his Chancellor and 
What a pity they had not extended their ess our infant lips were taught to repeat: all the officers of State. A man in the 
debates to the other side of the question, “Time cut* down all, middle rank of life, universally respected, 
, , . . . . . . Both great and small. and remarkable alike for kindly and gener- 
and adverted to a few of t le inconveniences It seems that the poor old gentleman has ous feelings and a convivial spirit, was 
(call them not wrongs,) which woman so f ound Dis match at last “Time is not unanimously elected to till the throne. He 
thoughtlessly inflicts on the other sex. I measured by years, but events,” and we entered with his whole heart into all the 
say the other sex, because the masculine have managed to crowd as many as possi- humors of the pastime in which the citi 
head of a family is not always the only ble into the duration of a life Once in a zen s of Dublin so long delighted. A jour * 
~ , e ■, , .1 while we see some venerable old school nal was kept, called the “ Dalkey Gazette,” 
su l " Kl •' am * ^ < x .a'wigance , <•. gentleman in the railroad cars—very re- in which all the public proceedings were 
sanos of poor mechanics and shop-keepers S p ec table people, who have only recently inserted, and it afforded great amusement 
will testify, who have had to receive a bank- given up queus and cocked hats—but they to its conductors. 
rupt notice, instead of current money in seem entirely out of their element in these But the mock pageantry, the affected 
middle rank of life, universally respected, 
and remarkable alike for kindly and gener- 
It seems that the poor old gentleman has 0 us feelings and a convivial spirit, was 
md his match at last. “ Time is not unanimously elected to till the throne. He 
rupt notice, instead of current money in 
payment of their bills. 
Much was said at Worcester about the 
disabilities which law and custom impose 
manifested, that woman should fit hersell to comprehend the dizzy velocity with which reality, and he fancied himself “every inch 
to fill almost every station, now occupied by they are propelled from point to point; in- a king.” His family and friends perceived 
the sterner sex. One fair matron averred dtied > , the y seem to dread that the y ma y with dismay and deep sor row the strange 
with becoming feeling that she once saw a ^ wldrled ° ff th . e . si ; rfa . ce of th .^ ^ in a delusion which nothing could shake He 
^ tangent, and are led to forego all confidence would speak on no subject save the king- 
woman help her husband clear land and j n g; r j saac Newton and the principles of dom of Dalkey and its Government, and 
flying palaces. Their minds habitually loyalty, and the pretended homage of his 
dwell on the achievements of their early subjects, atr length began to excite the 
days, journeys of 400 miles performed in imagination of “ King John,” as he was 
a fortnight, and they can scarcely be made called. Fiction at length became with him 
to comprehend the dizzy velocity with which reality, and he fancied himself “every inch 
roll logs;—that she then mentally exclaim¬ 
ed, I will help my husband roll logs, and 
} she did do it. 
gravitation. 
Could the ghosts of the horses of old 
he loved to dwell on the various projects 
he had in contemplation for the benefit of 
i she did do it. times raise from their graves, they would b j s people, and boasted of his high prerog- 
But statistics show, that in this “para- hardly recognize their descendants as be- ative; he never could see himself divested 
.. , i tt * i o. „ i longing to the same race. What would the for one moment of his royal powers, and 
dise of woman, the Dulled States, we have staid old boys, whose top-speed in their exacted the most profound deference to his 
i few such indomitable cross-bearing, Spartan days of colthood amounted to five miles the kingly authority. 
! women as this. For the week ending Nov. hour, say to a flying nag who trots his mile The last year and a half of his life was 
! Gth there were entered for consumption, at “low down in the thirties,” and don’t think spent in Swift’s Hospital for Lunatics. He 
I the New York custom house, 206 packages himself “ prodigious pumpkins after all?” felt his last hours approaching but no 
1 ... , . aocoaon • Or, what would an old-fashioned skipper ot gleam of returning reason maraed the part- 
» ot . slk g° ods > amounting to*> o , in- t b e past century, who religiously took in all i n g scene; to the very last instant he be- 
) voice cost, an account, when included with his sails at nightfall, and whose tub-built lieved himself a king, and all his cares and 
) that of straw and cotton exclusively for craft accomplished the voyage from conti- anxieties were for his people. He spoke 
| woman’s wear, exceeding in amount, the nent to continent in six months, think, could jn high terms of his Chancellor, his Attor- 
' importation of every other article for that «I»P his °“ <”* <* { 0ollins ’ s , New ney General, and all his officers of State, 
i nf i *1 i. i -n York steamers, rushing it at fourteen knots, and of the dignitaries of his Church; he 
< week. Mothmks that woman who so w,II- or , ., Flying cloud,” sweeping -like a recommended them to his kingdom, and 
( ingly rolled logs, would shrink from the lightning bolt athwart the dark steel wave ?” trusted the v mio-ht all retain the hichoffi- 
week. Methina.s that woman who so will- Qr a « Flying Cloud,” sweeping “like a 
ingly rolled logs, would shrink from the lightning bolt athwart the dark steel wave ?’ : 
feelings, state, and condition, could she but These things are marvels, even to us whe 
know them, of those many poor, borrowing, dve their midst, who are called upon tc 
... , , , r ai . chronicle each day some miracle of speed 
shinning men, who have to pay lor that ,, T , , c J . r , 
3 r J Wfv Iiqvp npincp lis thfl rlaiir finpetne p rv 
lightning bolt athwart the dark steel wave !” trusted they might all retain the high offi- 
These things are marvels, even to us who C es which they now held. He spoke on 
live in their midst, who are called upon to the subject with a dignified calmness well 
week’s import ot woman ’s luxuries. an j nan j mate machine rushing across the the crown he was about to relinquish for- 
log-rolling women country with a train of passengers at whirl- ever, his feelings were quite overcome, and 
Blessed is that woman who feels that wind speed; of gleaming barkswhose dash tears rolled down his checks. “I leave it,” 
. i i n i r .i i ci c towards the horizon resembles the sweep of said he, “ to my people, and to him whom 
she could roll logs for the good ot her fam- a swa jl ow 0 n the wing; of horses, that seem they may elect as my successor!” This 
ily provided always, that she trains her to fly in the air, so great is the velocity of remarkable scene is in some of the notices 
sons and daughters also to roll. But how their gait,—and yet we hardly realize the 0 f deaths for the year 1788. The delu- 
often do we see a matron, even a farmer’s sion, though most painful to his friends, was 
wife, work off the ends of her fingers, that , At time f’ when ( WG reCa11 t, ' eS ® facts ° f far from an chappy one to its victim; his 
’ ° the present moment, we seem to be dream- feelings were gratified to the last, while 
her daughters may vegetate in idleness and j ng> and cannot but fear to awake to some thinking he was occupied with the good of 
grow up in ignorance of almost every hideous reality of slow coaches, slow cattle, his fellow-creatures — an occupation best 
thing they ought to practice and to learn; and slow ships, to be plunged from the two- suited to his generous disposition. 
pigmies, mental and physical! fortyism of the present into the Rip Van -“™-■ 
t , c i Winkleism of the past! BROTHER JONATHAN. 
But, reader, it is the farmers and me- ___ _ 
chanics of these United States, who form ENTHUSIASM. The waist of his coat may be ridiculous- 
the great conservative balance against that i 7 , • ly short; the tails of it ridiculously long; 
o o H.nthttstasm is not. zea . /.ea is r.on- i • _i • .«. n_ __ „i i. .i . °» 
chronicle each day some miracle of speed, becoming the solemn leave taking of a 
We have before us the daily spectacle of monarch; but when he came to speak of 
LOG-ROLLING women. WUUU J I “ lKUUU ‘ “ u ever, ms leenngs were quae 
Blessed is that woman who feels that wind speed; of gleaming barks, whose dash tears rolled down his cheeks 
. _. towards the horizon resembles the sweep of said he, “ to my people, and 
she could roll logs tor the good ot her iam- « emaiiAn, nn tin tut eonm . i L „ 
BROTHER JONATHAN. 
the bank, or mortgage on his farm. Here 
is a daughter of economical German pa¬ 
rents; she is neatly, and jauntily dressed; 
\ without mock modesty, she aks you to buy ed ’ and challen b re8 the accused, and besides THE APPRENTICE. 
’ , . i i -x- i , J the insult, gets a bullet through his nerves, - 
s s her on,ons; aslc lier d die 7 a ^ e lier own arteries, or brains, this is the kind of action A young man whose father was in easy 
^ growing, and she will reply smilingly, as if called Satisfaction. When a man’s pocket- circumstances, was desirous of learning the 
> conscious of the equivocal respectability of book is not in a plethoric condition at best, printing business. His father consented on 
\ female pedling, Ich bin nicht foul— which and he is compelled, by an inexorable dun, condition that the son should board at home 
S is as much as to sav I eat not the bread of to hand over the little that remains, that is and pay weekly for his board, out of the 
\ ^ a s much as to s a y l eat not the bread of ^ ^ of acdon called Subtr action.- avails L of his special perquisites during his 
S ldleness - I would ask the more fashionably \vb en a tea-sipping, gossiping gathering, apprenticeship. The young man thought 
( educated fair ones, what are the disabilities each in turn, lets oft’ the pent-up stream of this rather hard, but when he was of age 
} of this fair allemande; she has no tendency scoff, sneer, and scandal that has been hiss- and master of his trade, his father said,— 
\ to spine affection, and in her cheeks the mg after delivery for weeks and months, “ Here, my son, is the money paid to me 
i ruddy rose predominates over the sickly that is the kind of action called Detraction, for board during your apprenticeship. 1 
S rv U v , . — When a man smites another, in the folly never intended to keep it, but have retained 
J C£ F nata)n - Yue, she has never put a piano an d madness of his sudden wrath, and gets it for your use, and with it, I give you as 
out of tune with her muscular fingers; i a return a blow, or missile that loosens a much more as will enable you to commence 
neither did she ever crucify a connois- tooth, or blackens an eye, and sends him y our business.” 
seui, by her horrid attempted variations, wounded, ashamed, and conscience smitten The wisdom of the old man was ap- 
nor transfix a green one, by the more facile t0 hj s home, that is what we call Reaction parent to the son, for while his fellows had 
tunes of “Auld Lang Syne,” or “Bounding --*~*~*~*^.- contracted bad habits in the expenditure of 
Billow.” But she has health and strength, Never purchase love or friendship by similar perquisites, and were now penniless 
and nature’s purity of feeling and character; gifts; when thus obtained, they are lost as and in vice, he was enabled to commence 
and that gracefulness of word and action, soon as you stop payments. his business respectably; and he now stands 
which conventionalism has not spoiled, with --- at the head of publishers in this country, 
its incidental and almost inseparable affec- Theory is the guide of practice, and while many of his former companions are 
tations. a practice is the life of theory. poor, vicious and degraded. 
THE APPRENTICE. 
chanics of these United States, who form ENTHUSIASM. The waist of his coat may be ridiculous- 
the great conservative balance against that Ent H tj 6IASM isY^eai. Zeal is cen- LyS wllar^ay 1 absorb*tTSems oj 
alarmingly increasing luxury which is the tere d i„ action—enthusiasm may be most a w | 10 l e of [[„■ his panting may 
plague spot on our American civilization; sublime in serene and quiet contemplation. not come below the tops of his bootS; and 
for they ulone &re the producers of ulmost ^enl too is specilic B.nd linite, while enthu- straps muy hcive the sir of preventer- 
all that is indispensable, useful and orna- s \ a ^ m ma y be employed on objects the most braces, to keep the continuations from going 
mental—in agriculture, mechanics, and the v ! slonar ?- Neither is enthusiasm fanati- over b j s head; he may be, in short, the 
arts. Eve,,Ahat portion „ f the ^ 
homo, which is begotten by those who vitality of soul. It is a positive quality and beneath the uncouthness of his dress, and the 
neither toil or spin,” will not compare, in a ^ts on the whole character. One man it frequent bizarrerie of his manner, there is 
healthy physical conformation, with the s ^ nds on a pilgrimage, ano ther on a voyage S ucha man, and such a soul as only Yankee- 
offspring of those whose hands administer of d !® C ° ver Y., . In , the sense ln which lie dom and the nineteenth centur yean produce 
, .1 • ■ : t - would treat it, it has no invidious meaning or educate. We start with the intention of 
‘ , . 11 ls ever . P resent to lts possessor as a making a flourish. Thorough paced, full- 
\\ hen I see a farmer s wagon drive up to self-approving consciousness. If enthuiasm b i oode d, conceited, stubborn, imperturba- 
a village store, and the officious clerk seize ^ ;d Jo ilN Mxlion to defend his country in b jg^ go-ahead Americans; not afraid to try 
upon tbe bags of dried fruit, pails of butter, die J 10 | l, .°f n^ d > it did not desert him when t0 do anything ever done by any other 
eggs, &c., even before tbe horses are made ^ hc ^f f ^ en ° n T ^ 0I JS ues and evil times. liv j ng man> f rorn making a baby’s go-cart to 
fast to the awinine 1 Dost I cannot hut fppl ^ f ® ntlm ^ lasm cradled td e lnfanc y of Burxts . the construction of au empire; and not a 
fast to the awimng post I cannot but feel it did not desert him, when hj devoted the bit more afraid to attempt what no man 
that that farmer at least has a log-rolling vigor of his manhood to the deep revealings ever d id, if either money, fame or power, is 
wife, a sort of protective tariff in his own of the human heart and set its beatings all to be made out of it. We are precisely 
kitchen; and that of course he has no note in to music - (files. tbe p e0 pl e to make the biggest of all pos- 
A VARIETY OF ACTIONS. sible flourishes, and blow the biggest of all 
_ possible double D bombudooms on the oc- 
Wiien a man thinks he has been insult- cas i° a °f national success and triumphs: 
t c: ex P ec f 3 me f° help him on with his 
A>' l i v K t v rj Al'lvD DAI IH* clothes, and to bathe and swathe, and work 
____ over him, and if I get a grain fretty, he’ll 
For the Rural New-Yorker. Sa D ‘ wel1 Rachel > 7 0U won ’ £ hay O old Nick 
“I DID NOT MEAN TO” always;’ that agin makes me feel mighty 
_ bad. 
“ i did not mean to,” is a simple phrase. Then the neuralgia sets in, and pains and 
Unknown to science and unlearned by art aches follow On, and the wife gets kind o’ 
But lo! the little child who blithely plays tired of housework, and the husband stays 
Utters these simple words with softened heart, . , , ._ ■. 
TATL. rivo out late, and comes home sullen, and the 
When angry thoughts within his bosom rise, . .. . ’ 
And sudden passion deals the unthinking blow, children are up squalling, and the tea is 
yvhen tear drops gather in his playmate’s eye3, cold, and the bread is heavy, and half a 
And down his cheeks in silent sorrow flow. dozen cousins come to stay a few days, and 
Then quickly with repentent words around the help goes off; then look OUt for break- 
Tite sutierer’s neck the loving arms are thrown, ers!” Aunt Rachel knew, and she laid 
The kind “ I did not mean to,” heals the wound— down her knitting work and wiped her 
The proffered kiss and smile'all wrongs atone; ° « t t r ti . n 
And gladness dances o’er the heart again, eS ’ a,ld Sa 7f 1 g UeSa 1 COuld tfc11 J 
And love and kindness l earn from every eye; but I never shall no never. 
As sunshine smiles upon the dewy plain, Nick was in the back entry and heard 
When threading clouds have left the summer sky. ^ ^ aQ( j the WHy aunt Rachel 
I would, sweet happy childhood, that like thee jumped and turned the subject was a cau- 
Proud man would strive to heal his brother’s woe, ^ g 8 h e,_“why here Comes Mr. 
And th.'it his generous h and like thine might be, J . J . 
Tite first to wipe the tear he caused to flow: bodfish, how is 3 our rumatis to-night, dear . 
I would that he possessed thy truthful heart; let me bandage your leg.” Wasn’t she a 
Thy freedom to forgive and to confess; woman ? a good, kind creature after all ?— 
As gladly might he then love’s beams impart, Let us then lay this down as an inviolate 
And soothe with kindness every aching breast. . 
rule, that it a woman has the patience of 
And oh! I would that love might proudly wave Job a man shou J d a l ways remember that 
Her shining banner o’er a ransomed earth, P 
That Truth might chant a hymn o’er Error’s grave listeners hear no good of themselves.”— 
And Slavery be crushed by Freedom’s birth. Olive Branch. 
Then shall the brightening day-stars one by one _ _ _—-- 
Illume the darkening pall of mazy night; MEN AND WOMEN. 
Then shall the dawn of the millennial sun— _ 
open new glories to our waning sight. In days not far distant men found their 
___excitement, and filled up their time, in vio- 
W0MAIY3 ENDURANCE. l ent bodily exercises, noisy merriment, and 
- intemperance. Thuy have now, in all but 
“ It’s a great mystery to me,” said Mrs. the very poorest classes, lost their inclina- 
Rachel Bodfish, “ why people are forever tion for these things, and for the coarser 
quoting old Job as a pattern of patience.— pleasures generally; they have now scarcely 
To be sure he had some trials, but they any tastes but those which they have ia 
never held out as mine do. I’ve often common with woman, and, for the first time 
thought on’t; how the disease took our in the world, men and women are really 
sheep one fall, and the old brindle cow companions. A most beneficial change, if 
died, and the hog was all measty, and at the companionship were between equals, 
the same time our Hitty was sick, and Ju- but being between unequals, it produces 
dith bad the quinsy in her throat, and when what good observers have noticed, though 
our minister came down to comfort me, without perceiving its cause, a progressive 
savs be, ‘ Mrs. Bodfish, you must learn pa- deterioration among men in what had hither- 
tience of that gqod man Job, the Bible to been considered the masculine excel- 
tells on.’ lences. Those who are so careful that 
And then I spoke right out, and says I, women should not become men, do not see 
‘sir, it’s only because Job was a man that that men are becoming what they have de- 
he is handed down as a pattern. If he had cided that women should be,—ar« falling 
been a woman you never would have hearn into the feebleness which they have so long 
on him.’ I reckon this didn’t set very well, cultivated in their companions. Those who 
for the parson never quoted a scripture are associated in their lives tend to become 
character to me arterwards. assimilated in character. In the present 
Now ain’t it just so? Poor women sit up closeness of association between the sexes, 
all night and contrive to fix their work so man cannot attain manliness unless woman 
that they can go out next day to labor; and acquire it.— Westminster Review. 
then they wash and iron and mend, and ■- |; J ia ■ 
take care of sickly little scrubby children, 
and sometirnes very miserable husbands, A-r villlj JLV/V♦ 
and when they complain, how quick people _:__ 
are to sa 3 7 , ‘ oh, she’s a crazy-headed woman “ Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; 
who has no sort of patience—she’ll get her Nothing’s so hard, butsearcli Will find it oat. - 
deserts by-and by.’ = T" 7 „ , “ 
I can quote more than a dozen such in- ortie ur, ‘ uu '' ork e r - 
stances. There’s my neighbor Grout—her GEOGRAPHI CAL ENIGMA, 
husband sits all day in the chimney-corner t am composed of35 letters . 
and keeps building castles in the air, but My 15j 2) 10 , 31. 19, 12 is city in Wisconsin, 
that don’t help her to any bread and butter, > ly 1U; 22 , 21. 32, 33, 19 is a river in New Y'ork 
and what do people say ? —‘ Why, Mr. My 11 , 15, 28, 24, 25, 6 is a city on the Willamette 
Grout is a very clever man, but he has not river. 
got so much force as his wife;’ and the My 11 ), 18, 27, 23, 24, 5,27 is a 3 trait near Denmark, 
men will add, ‘ but all people are not made My 2, 35, 15 is a river in Scotland, 
alike, you know.’ My 1, 11, 15, 3,-4, 10, 18, 2, 33, 17, 7,26, 18 is one 
There’s Betty Flanders too-lives right ^ the U* H ted states. 
down under the hill, and it’s an emblem of * ’ t .. , , 
, , ,. rl o . . n My 13, 11 is a river immortalized for its windings, 
her lot. When Sam went to California, 3 „ 10 , 26 6 , 8 16 > 7 i „ citynM e d 
the old man told his wife it was her place a .. . 
“ Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; 
Nothing's so hard, butsearcli will find it out." 
For the Rural New-Yorker. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 35 letters. 
My 15, 2, HI, 31. 19, 12 is city in Wisconsin. 
My 10, 22, 21, 32, 33, 19 is a river in New Y'ork 
My 11, 15, 28, 24, 25, 6 is a city on the Willamette 
My 1, 11, 15, 3, 4, 10, 18, 2, 33, 17, 7,26, 18 is ono 
of the United States. 
My 13, 11 is a river immortalized for its windings. 
My 10, 31, 19, 10, 7, 26, 6, 18, 16, 7 is a city named 
for a Roman Agriculturist. • 
ACROSTICAL ENIGMA 
I am composed of 9 letters. 
her head. And a man never falls into vices, M Y 8 - 4 formerly lived in Spain, 
but some woman is said to be at the bottom, M >' 9 ’ 4 - 6 is what are f r « ve to do ’ 
and so I always feel mighty glad when old first four 8 P elled backwards 18 a measure of 
bachelors get into scrapes, though ten lasfc five ig what you often look throngh . 
chances to one, boarding-house 'eepers or jy| y wko j e indispensible about a house and what 
their daughters are implicated. you may see at any moment if you please. 
I don’t know how it is, nor why it is, Beach Pond, Wayne Co, Pa. F. Taggart. 
that my sex is so shamefully used,” con tin- Answer next week. 
ued the old kufy. “ There’s Nick, my hus- ----—- 
band; why, he was one of the biggest slov- ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c. IN NO. 100. 
ens in the world. I’ve actually known - 
him to throw his old dirty boots right on Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma.— Plow deij* 
the carpet in our bed-chamber, and he ,LUGGARDS SLEEP - 
would twitch his dickeys off and break the Answer to Puzzle : 
strings, and ask me to hand him his snuff ch > come t0 tlie tea - sho P Wlth m ®> 
box, and book, and candle, and if I inquired And bu y a P ound of tbe be * 
why he could not wait on himself? what a ^ 
flare-up would come o it. oid y. £ our ek Biing§ a pound, 
Nick, says he, ‘ it’s the place of a woman y 0 coin e to the tea mart and try, 
to see that a man is waited on,’—and my No better can elsewhere be found, 
temper would begin to rise, and sometimes Oh, say then you’re ready to buy. 
’twas dreadful hard work to keep it down. Answer to Business question.— Thi shop-krrp. 
Now I’m old, it ain’t much better. My ER looshs $44 and the boots, or $50 yaujj*« 
old man is plagued with the rumatis, and the boots at $6. 
to get his outfit —and didn’t she have to My 15> 18j 17) 23, 31, 24 , 4 , is a city named after 
urge Squire Jones to loan a hundred or first white volcano. 
two, and make over the furniture she be ught My 10, 18,, 31, 33 is an African city—the Egyption 
with her own money ? Again, what did name Musr—the Arabian Musre. 
people say? ‘Why, Mr. Flanders was a My 4, 14, 2, 26, 24, 4, 33 is a large river in the land 
very discreet man, and his hot-headed wife of Confucius. 
procured her son’s outfit;’ when she told My whole is the name and residence of a gentle- 
rae she had shed an ocean of tears because man for several years a member of the New York 
his father was so hard-hearted. Oh, de- Leg> slature - “• 
pend on it, a woman’s trials are always un- O’ Answer next week, 
derrated. She may have ever so slack " ~~ 
twisted a man, and if he don’t lie nor get ACROSTICAL ENIGMA 
drunk, somebody will speak in his favor, 1 am composed of 9 letter*. 
but let a woman get s.ip-shod and how jyj y b g j s gain power. 
quick you’ll hear about her untidy propen- jyj y 2j 7 , 4 is used on the water. 
sities! A man never ^jjils for want of busi- My 3, 8, 9, 4 was an Ancient Measure. 
ness, but somebody Will hint about his WO- My 4, 2, 7, 8 is the delight of the Sailor. 
men folk s; his wife some time in her life My 5, 7, 8, 9 is what many seek after. 
had an expensive shawl, or a rich gown, My 6, 2, 3, 5 a house cannot be furnished without it. 
and then comes the day of judgment upon M Y 7 > 4 > 8 helped to write this. 
her head. And a man never falls into vices, M Y 8 > 2 > 3 > 4 formerly lived in Spain. 
but some woman is said to be at the bottom, M >' 9 ’ 4 - 6 is what ™ a “ are P r “ ve to do ’ 
and so I always feel mighty glad when old first four 8 P elled ba <* wards » a measure of 
bachelors get into scrapes, though ten "^ last five is what you often look through . 
