©ORE’S RURAL 
-YORKER. 
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Two brown heads with tossing cnrli, 
Red lips shutting over pearls, 
Bare feet white and wet with dew, 
Two eyes black, and two eyes blue; 
Little boy and girl were they— 
Katie Lte and Willie Grey. 
They were standing where a breok, 
Bending like a shepherd's crook, 
Flashed its silver, and thick ranks 
Of green willows lined its bsnks; 
Half Id thought and half in play— 
Katie I.ee and Willie Grey. 
They had cheeks like cherries red, 
He was taller—'most a bead;— 
She, with arms like wreaths of snow, 
Swung s basket to and fro, 
As she loitered, half in play, 
Chattering to Willie Grey. 
Pretty Katie, Willie said— 
And there came a dash of red 
Through tho brownnose of his cheek— 
Boys are strong and girls are weak, 
And ril carry, so 1 will, 
Katie's basket up the hill. 
Katie answered, with a langb, 
You shall carry only half; 
And then, toRsing back her curls, 
Boys are weak as well as girls; 
Do you think that Katie guessed 
Half the wisdom she expressed? 
Men sre only boys grown tall, 
Hearts don't change mnch, after all, 
And when, long years from that day, 
Katie Lee and Willie Grey 
Stood again beside the brook, 
Bending like a shepherd’s crook, 
Is it strange that Willie said— 
While again a dash of red 
Crossed the hrownness of his cheek— 
I am strong end you are weak; 
Life is hut a slippery steep, 
Hung with shadows cold and deep; 
Will you trust me, Katie dear, 
Walk beside me without fear? 
May 1 carry,if I will, 
All your burdens up the hill? 
And abe answered, with a laugh— 
No, but you may carry half 1 
Close beside tho little brook, 
Bending like a shepherd's crock, 
Washing, with ite Bilver hands, 
Late and early at the sands, 
Is a cottage, where, to-day, 
Katie lives with Willie Grey. 
In the porch she sits, and lol 
Swings a basket to and fro, 
Vastly different from the one 
That she swung in years agone; 
This is long—and deep—and wide— 
And has—KOCKKKS at the bide. 
“A very good girl,” said he, “if she resembles 
her mother aDy.” 
“ But, I mean what kind of style do her parents 
live in? Aie they wealthy?” 
A gleam of mischief sparkled in her father’s 
eyes as he answered. “ When I last saw them, 
they lived in a little log cabin in the edge of a 
western clearing, and 1 thought them a very 
charming family.” 
The girls exchanged a glance of despair. “ Of 
whom are you talking, father?” Baid Cabjiir. 
“Of your cousin, Margaret Carlton, who is 
coming to spend part of the winter with ub,” re¬ 
plied her father. 
“A couBin! Ob, I am so glad!” exclaimed 
Carrie, her eyes beaming with delight 
“Don’t let me hear you call her cousin, Car¬ 
rie, said Nellie, “ I have no intention of claim- 
the exception of Mr. Lawrence, who had taken 
an early breakfast and gone to his store some 
time previous. To say that Margaret created a 
sensation as she entered the room, would he hut 
the simple truth, for neither Mrs. Lawrence nor 
her eldest daughters were prepared for any such 
vision of beauty as greeted their eyes. Marga¬ 
ret’s cashmere morning-robe was as elegant as 
Maude’s, while in beauty of features, and easy 
grace of manners, Bhe was not in the least her 
inferior. She gave Carrie a pleasant morning 
greeting, bnt not Mrs. Lawrence herself could 
have been more freezingly polite than was she, as 
Carrie introduced her to her aunt and cousins. 
Besides being a little vexed at their conduct, as 
was natural, she was determined, as she after¬ 
wards told her mother, to give them a lesson on 
the treatment of their friends from the Rural 
ing relationship with every verdant specimen of Districts, that they would not soon forget. Mrs. 
the backwoods who may chance to be connected 
with me by way of Adam, or not much nearer.” 
There was a curious expression on Mr. Law¬ 
rence’s face as he left the table, and took his way 
to his place of business, but none of his family 
noticed it, each being fully occupied with her 
own thoughts. Mr. Lawrence was a New York 
merchant who came from New England some 
thirty-five years since, a bare-footed country boy, 
whOBe sole earthly possessions were contained In 
a little bundle which he carried in Ills hand. Be¬ 
side this, however, he possessed an abundant cap¬ 
ital iu the shape of that energy and perseverance 
which characterize the true Yankee, and had 
gradually worked his way upward from an errand 
Lawrence was actually surprised into an attempt 
to make an apology for her conduct, and Maude 
and Nellie strove, by profuse attentions on their 
part, to make her forget what had passed 
When the hour for morning calls had arrived, 
Henry Lanudon and bis sister were annonneed. 
Maude bad just time to be conscious of a fear 
that her handsome cousin would find too much 
favor in his eyes, before they entered, when her 
surprise may be imagined as she saw IOffir Lang- 
don advance toward Margaret with out stretched 
hands, greeting her with, 
“ My dear Margarrt! I am so glad tosee you!” 
and accompanying her words with such a kiss as 
only two Intimate female friends can give.— 
[Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker.J 
MAUDE LAWRENCE’S LESSON. 
BY BELLE V. 110WARD. 
“How provoking!” exclaimed Mrs. Lawrence, 
sinking back in her luxurious easy chair, and 
Bpeaking with rather more irritation in her tone 
than she would have cared to display before any 
of her fashionable acquaintances. 
" What is it, mamma?” said Maude, looking up 
with some curiosity from her embroidery, while 
Nellie laid the book she was reading in her lap, 
and glanced inquiringly at lier mother. 
“ Yonr father gave me a letter this morning be¬ 
fore be went down town, and I have just read it. 
It is from his brother-in-law, Carlton, and lie 
says that his daughter Is coming to make us a 
visit,—will be here on Thursday night, he writes, 
by the evening train.” 
“A country cousin! ridiculous!” exclaimed 
Nellie, with a look of contempt on her fair lace. 
“She must not cornel” said Maude, decisively, 
but ber conteuance fell as her mother replied, 
“You forget, my dear, that she is already on the 
•way. We must, make the best of it.” 
“But jnst think of it, mamma! To be obliged 
to introduce an awkward, verdant country girl to 
our friends as our cousin! What will Henry 
Langdox think of us, if he knows wo have such 
vulgar relatives?” 
“And Thursday evening is the night of Mrs. 
Townelky’h party, too,” said Nellie, but of 
coarse we will not stay at home for her.” 
“ It may be that sho is not perfectly unpresent¬ 
able,” said Mrs. Lawrence, “or if she is, we must 
manage to keep her in the background as much 
as possible. You know your father is so queer in 
some respects, and he considers himself under 
obligation to his brother for assistance that he 
rendered him years ago,—so, as I said before, we 
must make the best of it.” 
“But Henry Langdon, mamma?” 
“ Well, my dear Maude, you must try and biing 
him to the point as quickly as possible, and when 
once you are engaged to him, you need have no 
further fear.” 
“ I am so sorry,” Eaid Nellie, “but my private 
opinion is that Miss Carlton will not care to 
prolong her visit.” 
A gay party of callers interrupted the conver¬ 
sation, and our fair friends forgot their troubles 
for a time. When they were gathered around the 
dinner table that afternoon, their numbers being 
augmented by the addition of Mr. Lawrence, a 
portly, good-natured gentleman, with a pleasant 
look in his dark eyes, and Carrie, a gentle, blue¬ 
eyed school girl whom fashionable life had not 
yet spoiled, the subject was renewed. 
“ Father,” said Maude, “what kind of a person 
is this Miss Carlton, who is to honor us with her 
presence 60 Boon?” 
boy to a situation among the merchant princes of \v[, eren p 0 n, Mr. Henry Langdon advanced, and 
the Umpire Btate. His wife,—whom he had woed 
and won from her father’s farm-house beneath the 
shadow of the hills of the Old Granite Suite, when 
he had returned thither at intervals during his 
youth to revisit, his owu paternal roof,—hud lu 
bored with him, and for him, during the years 
when fort une seemed doubtful, but it was tho old 
story. Wealth and fashion had changed her from 
the loving, trusting help-mate which she had been 
to her husband in former yearn, and in the glare 
and glitter of society she forgot her home.— 
Maude and Nellie were not slow iu imitating 
their mother’s example, and as both were young 
and beautiful, they were surrounded by a large 
Circle of admirers, especially as to their other 
charms were added the most potent of all,— 
golden ones. 
Mr. Lawrence was not at all satisfied with this 
state of affairs. Wealth had not calloused liis 
heart, and the teachings that had influenced his 
boyhood in his New England home, were still too 
strong to be forgotten. But he was powerless lo 
stem the tide of Fashion, and so, like many a one 
before him, he was obliged to allow his wife and 
daughters to take their own course. 
Among those whom Maude would class in the 
circlo of her intimate friends, was Henry Lang¬ 
don, a young man whose wealth was his least 
qualification for admittance into the “ first socie¬ 
ty.” Handsome, talented, and of fascinating ad¬ 
dress, it was no wonder that Maude exerted her¬ 
self to bring him to her feet, but so far she had 
not succeeded, and even her vanity could not 
construe bis attentions as other than those of 
friendship. Though the idea of receiving a visit 
from a “country cousin” would not have been 
pleasing at any time, in the present state of 
affairs, it troubled Maude deeply, and she 
would have sacrificed much if she could have 
prevented her unknown relative from coming, for 
she knew her father would insist on her being 
treated with respect, at least when he was present 
Thursday evening came at last, and Mr. Law 
hence in vain tried to induce hiB wife and daugh¬ 
ters to remain at home and welcome his niece. 
Mrs. Lawrence ridiculed the idea of their deny¬ 
ing themselves the pleasure of attending Mrs, 
Townblky’b party for the sake of such a relative, 
while Nellie insisted that she would never know 
the difference, adding, in her own mind, that it 
would matter hut little if she did. Her father 
finally gave up his point, and only ho and Carrie 
were left to weloome Margaret. 
Meanwhile, the cause of all this commotion was 
quietly and unsuspectingly seated iu the cars, and 
rapidly approaching the placo of her destination. 
Ue who might have lookod upon her would have 
seen & slender, youthful figure, a pair of clear, 
dark eyes, and a white, intellectual brow beneath 
lUit auis fjumor. 
GOOD PAY FOR DOING GOOD! 
THE HOG. 
A VALUABLE GRATUITY 
TO EVERY PERSON WHO FORMS A CLUB! 
bauds of glossy brown hair. Quiet, easy, and 
gracefal in every respect, Margaret Carlton 
bore the stamp of a true lady, and would have 
been recognized as such in any place, or in any 
society. It was a late hour when the train reach¬ 
ed the depot, where Margaret found her uno'.e’s 
carriage waiting for her, and in a Bhort time she 
was at his house. Both he and her cousin Car 
rib gave her a loving welcome, bnt she was very 
much surprised by her aunt’s and cousin’s ab¬ 
sence. But she suspected the truth, which sus¬ 
picion was deepened into a certainty when her 
uncle, givingher a keen glance, said mischievously 
“ I don't see many traces of the backwoods 
about you after all, Maggie! Where have you 
kept yourself all yom life?” 
She gave him pome laughing answer, hut was 
sure from that moment that she had discovered 
the cause of her relatives’ neglect. As she was 
very tired with her journey, Carrie rang the bell 
for a servant to show her to her room. To her 
surprise, she was conducted to a diminutive 
chamber near the top of the house, where there 
was scarcely room for herself and her trunkB, 
though the furniture was of the scantiest descrip¬ 
tion. As she looked round upon the carpetless 
floor and bare walls, she could not help laughing 
merrily. “ Well!” exclaimed she, “ this is getting 
to he decidedly interesting! Doubtless my re¬ 
spected aunt thinks this is good enough lor ‘a 
friend from tho country.’ If it were not for 
uncle, I’d give her a specimen of Western man¬ 
ners in earnest, but as it is, I’ll see the affair out, 
now I have commenced.” 
It was a late hour the next morning when Mar¬ 
garet was aroused frum her slumbers by the 
breakfast bell, and after making the needful pre¬ 
parations, proceeded down stairs to the sitting- 
room, where all the family were assembled, with 
heartily shaking Margaret’s hand, exclaimed, 
imitating his sister’s manner, 
“Mydear Margaret! I anno glad tosee you!” 
at the same time looking as if it would be ex 
tromely agreeable to him to follow Effie’s ex 
ample still further, 
“ I was not aware that you were acquainted with 
Miss Carlton,” said Maude to Effie. 
“ Oh, yes,” replied she, “ Henry and I spent a 
part of the last summer at her fathcr’p, but I did 
not know that she was your cousin until a short 
time since.” 
An animated conversation followed, which 
showed Margaret and the Langpons to be inti 
mate friends, if nothing more; and when they left, 
it was with an urgent invitation for her to spend 
a good portion of her time, while iu the city, with 
them. 
On the first opportunity, Mr. Lawrence was 
overwhelmed with a shower of questions aud re¬ 
proaches for keeping them in ignorance of Mar¬ 
garet's social standing. 
“Why, father,” said Maude, “you must have 
known that your brother was wealthy. Why 
didn’t you tell us, and keep us from making fools 
of ourselves?” 
“ I am not certain that it would have had that 
effect,” replied her father, drily. 
“But you said they lived in a log house, 
father,” said Nei.TTA 
“So they did, twvUty years ago,” answered her 
father. “ But win ( if ter father did not possess 
quite so many dollars? I am sorry that daugh¬ 
ters of mine should value money before mind.” 
But his words did not make much impression. 
Nellie turned away with some indistinct words 
about her father being so odd, and he sighed to 
think what erroneous ideas of life his daughters 
had. 
Margaret did not occupy her attic chamber 
another night, and Mrs. Lawrence apologized 
for the blunder of the servant in putting her 
there, which explanation Margaret took the 
liberty to disbelieve. It was not long before the 
Lawrences made a party in her honor, on which 
oocasion Mr. Lawrence offered his sympathy to 
his wife aud daughters lor their want of success 
in “keeping Margaret in the background.” 
Margaret’s father had gone to tho WoBt when 
young, and in the course of years had seen a 
thriving city grow up on and around his farm, 
wbiob, of course, made him the master of im¬ 
mense wealth. U imself a man of intellect, though 
in a measure self-educated, his family of eons aud 
daughters received every advantage that money 
could bestow, and were tine specimens of culti¬ 
vated and intelligent Westerners, of whom there 
are many in our country. Two years before this, 
Henry Langdon, when on a western tour, had 
been introduced to the society of the city where 
Mr. Carlton resided, and of which, of course, 
his own family were prominent members. Being 
attracted by Margaret’s beauty and accomplish¬ 
ments he bad followed np the acquaintance thus 
begun, and had finally won from her a promise to 
become his wife on some future day. Communi¬ 
cations between her family and the Lawrences 
had been few of late years, and Margaret had 
never chanced to mention them to Henry when 
he was with her, and when she wrote to him of 
her intention of visiting New York, Bhe asked 
him not to mention her to them, as she had a lit¬ 
tle vein of romance in her disposition, and wished 
to take them hy surprise. 
Bhe had no further reason to complain of her 
relatives’ neglect, for Maude was proud to intro¬ 
duce her as her cousin, everywhere. And when, 
a few mouths later, Margaret became Mrs. 
Langdon, no one could quote the opinions of an¬ 
other with more assiduity thun did Maude those 
of "my cousiD, Mrs. Henry Langdon.” Bhe had 
learned one lesson, at least,—that even those who 
had once been sheltered beneath the roof of a log 
cabin in the West, might possess qualities worthy 
of the notice of the inhabitants of an eastern me¬ 
tropolis, and that "country cousins” were not 
always models of verauncy and awkwardness. 
Goodrich, Gen. Co., Mich.. i860. 
Tnp. following Jew desperate is an extract from 
a humorously poetical report on Swine, delivered 
hy J. C. Milne, Esq., editor of the Fall River News, 
at a recent Cattle Show in that vicinity: 
Wft sing the Hug '—not theme in common stye, 
Hut that which ro»m'd unpenn'd in Paradise, 
And furnished, next to that “best gift," dear Modem, 
An extra spare rib for old Father Adam. 
Bnt If you doubt, when F.den’n garden fair 
Bloom’d fresh and lovely, that the Pig vm there, 
Ton'll certainly allow, (please don’t forget,) 
He went with Noah in, oat of the wet. 
Yet there are kome, who this plain fact dispute, 
And out of that old ark would crowd the brute! 
Said my friend Dean to me, the other day, 
(My friend, the Treasurer,) in his Tauntin’ way, 
How can you prove, Kir, that in N’cab's boat 
The hog was gathered with the sheep and goat? 
Of that, quoth I, one cannot be mistaken. 
For wasn't it then that Noah tamed hit bacon i 
And did he not, though on the surging brine, 
Have hie Ham there whene’er he chose to dine? 
Dean ceased to brittle —'lowed 'twag even go, 
The “critter" figured at that Cattle Show. 
O, much abused and much despised brant! 
Men Blight thee most, who know thy merits least; 
Who would make light of thee, should try thee first, 
Then with thy praiee they'll totor-iord their verse. 
Without thy presence at the festive board, 
Tickling the palate of creation'* lord, 
In bake nr fry, or even in a stew, 
Pray what could we, or our good housewives do? 
Sore grief wonld seize on many a bosom stout, 
If, by perchance, the hog should onc« " Btep out;’’ 
And Life become, 'mid all its varying semes, 
Like Sunday morning, without porli and beam! 
On beef and mutton, Englishmen expand, 
But pork’s the crowning glory of our land— 
Pigs are true Patriots—iu the Buckeye State 
They die to make her Cincinnati great. 
Pork to the Jew is every way unclean, 
Howe'er prepared, with Or without his beaD. 
Though Paul felt free from Moses here to swerve, 
The Jew still deems it binding to observe; 
H e go with Paul—as every one supposes— 
As for the Jew— why, he may go to— Motet! 
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The following is an alarming evidence of the 
progress of tho photographic art:—A lady last 
week had her likeness taken by a photographist 
and he executed it so well that her husband pre 
fers it to tho original. 
A modern Munchausen, addicted to humming 
au air beginning “ Strike the lyre, strike the lyre,” 
was greatly surprised when one of liis acquaint¬ 
ances, taking him at his word, knocked him down. 
We always admire the answer of the man who, 
when asked how old he was, answered, “Just 
forty yeais; hat if you count by the fun I’ve seen, 
I am at least eighty.” 
“There, John, that’s twice you’ve come home 
and forgotten that lard.” “ La, mother; it was so 
greasy that it slipped my mind.” 
Why are all games of I hess of equal duration? 
Because it takes just four knights to play every 
game. 
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I was born in a forest, and wear a green head, 
And with green heads am compass’d full oft, 
Some younger, some older, 
Some sly, and some holder, 
Some harder, and some very soft. 
As various specks on my face do appear, 
Of different colors and shapes, 
So intent on the matter, 
Some gnn and some chatter, 
Like a parcel of moukeys and apes. 
By nature I'm harmless, but not so by art; 
The art not ruy own but my neighbors; 
If you suffer by me, 
Your own fault it must be, 
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MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM. 
There are 3 numbers which have the following capaci¬ 
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over; the 3d, divided by the 2d, has 3 quotients and 3 
over; and the sum of all three is equal to 70. 
these numbers? 
Rochester, N. Y., 1860. 
X3T Answer in two weeks. 
What aie 
G. Y. L 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c., IN No. 565. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—Ascertain that you 
are right, then go ahead regardless ef the result. 
Answer to Charade:—Watch-man. 
Answer to Arithmetical Problem:—A, $2; B, $6,50; C, 
$11; D, $S.25; and E, $12 87. 
jenuttin? t»HV according *.v» vu« - . c 
npr'oct aiiti Ujui'IhuimhI v humid volunu* of the Rural tor 
1H0O or 1*^ (cjiaIi price. pruned; Oh*, U iu huch 
BocLs MH we ofler. 
If To each nf t! n One Ifundrod Persons sending the 
first lists of ’twenty or m.ire snbieribewUt resist ten being 
new,) as above, we will trive (and piy P"St<vo L *!*nt by 
mat),) Webster'S (’"Util iny< House and Family Dictionary. 
Hi.—Tu JPu'A Of the One Hundred Persons sending the 
th>1 *u-.la of Ten ot more sub-vribors, (at oa-t live being 
T r,r w vi give I rang I"'-. :| 11 
t.f Modern Cookery [by MU* A tou and Mrs. lhilej price, 
31 ,'is—oKahy dollar ur ten shibmg book (or two fifty cent 
boo!:-,! mentioned above. 
[If profane rL either of the following works will be sent, 
pottl-ptid. inn’ead ot any ono ot euu»! pnee above mimed : 
Hints t., Hti.-„*-K«»l | eni 1 ptfeo 5155: Deists Amencnn 
Flower Garden Directory. Dadd's Done Doctor, $1, 
Dadd's Cattle Doctor, $1; Practical Cookery. *1; The Amer¬ 
ican Poultry Yard, 51; Unvciroth,on the IDv* and Honey 
Bee, $12'.; Mysteries of Bee Keeping LxpUur-d, $1J 
Remember that these are K/tra Premiums — in 
addition to all others offered ami given tut a reward for 
early and efficient action ! flaw u the Rest Time to Act! 
TERMS OF THE RURAL—In Advance. 
Two Dollaka A Year. Three Copies, one year, 15; 
Sij Copies* o oil one free lo Club A{]< nl , $10: J en. and one 
tree, M5; Fifteen, nod one Prte, RiU 1 irtnlv, am! one 
free, i'-t; and any (/renter number at the same iate -only 
#1.25 per ropy! Club papers sent to different post-oj/iccs, 
if desired Aster. ] ,ay Ain't nun postape no copies tnnilea 
ia forciur countries, 51 .SI is the lowest Club ruts Jur Can* 
ado, and $2.25 to Car ope. 
Rillt on aU tolnrnt Rank - in V. S and Canada 
taken ut nor. but Apt nit will please remit ,'<r.in York. Can¬ 
ada or Stic Rnnland money when convenient All suf 
tcription Piuuiy endued by Jjraft on either [urn lork. 
Bast no, Albany or Rochester, 'less errhunpe,) moo he sent 
at, the risk oj the Publisher , i; made payable to his order. 
Friends of the Rural! such is our Programme of 
Specific Premiums for the Winter Campaign Please 
examine the list closely, aud you will observe that every 
offered is as good as there is uf the had and 
The Books have been selected with great care, 
pecial reference being had to their intrinsic value ant 
merit. Is not the Programme all “ on the square, 
Reader, aud are not the Premiums worth contending 
for? Bear in mind that every person who forms a Club 
of three or more is sure of a good book, and that the 
greater the effort the larger will be the prize! There is 
no “Gift Book Enterprise” or gammon about the mat¬ 
ter, Gentlemen and Ladies, Boys and Girls,—for we have 
determined to give all of you disposed to aid the Rural 
and its Objects, a bona Jide, substantial reward for gener¬ 
ous exercise of influence. The Presidential Election 
is over, the Country is safe, the People prosperous and 
ready to substitute a useful paper for tbe campaign 
sheets, and Note fa the Tune to canvass successfully f" r 
the Favorite Rural asd Family Kkwbpapek of America. 
Please write all addresses plainly and carefully. ic crd '^ 
that they may be accurately entered upon our books and 
correctly PRIXTko by our Mailing Machine. AU subset ip 
tions should be well inclosed, and carefully addressed 
and mailed to D- U* T. MOO It L, 
November, I860. Rochester, N. Y. 
work 
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