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Of ber the poet learns to sing 
His tenderer canzonetta; 
Here, maidens come stub love to bring 
As make* all love its debtor. 
The. dusty lad in tattered frock, 
The rough and sturdy fanner. 
The traveler leaning on the rock. 
Have here an equal charmer. 
The frolid boys from school and mill, 
The gay and rosy misses, * 
Drink health And pleasure from the rill 
In all her rippled kisses. 
The violet on the mossy brink. 
The bluebirds tn the hazels, 
Repay with song and sweets tie drink 
That stings not though it dazzles. 
And ob 1 forgiving every slight 
Of wretched souls who leave her, 
She bathes away the 6tains of night 
And cools their burning fever. 
The whiteness of the simple soul 
Hhe welcomes and enhances, 
And shames the votaries of the bowl 
With pure, inviting glances. 
Ho! fill your beakers from the brook— 
The white urn ol' the Naiads; 
And life shall lake as fresh a look 
As to the turf their play adds. 
-Slorn fEc-tlft. 
THE DUTCH DYKES. 
THE STORY OF A LITTLE HERO. 
The kingdom of the Netherlands, or, as it is 
more commonly known, Holland, owes its exist¬ 
ence as ranch to the skill and energy of its 
people, as to anything else. The surface of a 
large part of the country is several feet below 
the level of the sea; and, but for the ingenuity 
and unceasing vigilunee of the government and 
people, the ocean would soon he sweeping over 
that thriving country, and it would be blotted 
from the face of the earth. But by the aid of 
science and constant labor, dyes, or huge em¬ 
bankments, have been erected along the low, flat 
coast, by means of which the waves are kept at 
hay, and the country saved from ruin. These 
dykeB are often sixty feet in height, especially 
along the shores of the German Ocean on the 
west, and those of the Zuyder Zee on the east. 
The Dutch, taught by experience, are ever on 
the watch to take advantage of every circum¬ 
stance to resist the encroachments of the Bea. 
Holland was originally a series of banks ol' staid 
orimud, exposed to inuudation from the Rhine, 
and other rivers, as well as from the sea; and 
thus exhibited a succession of slimy and barren 
6ands. But patient industry, by raising dykes 
against the sea and rivers, has converted the 
waste into a smiling garden. 
These dams or dykes form the characteristic 
and most remarkable feature of the Dutch land¬ 
scape. They are sometimes planted with rows 
of trees, between which run the canals and 
roads of the country. At frequent intervals the 
dykes are surmounted with wind-mills, the ob¬ 
ject of which is to pump the water from the en¬ 
closed land, or polder, into the canal. 
The mo&t constant care is necessary to keep 
the dykes in repair; and a sleepless watch Is 
maintained over them at all points. The slight¬ 
est crevice or crack is at once reported, and 
workmen are set to repairing it Not a moment 
is lost, for every second gained by the water in¬ 
creases the leak until it sometimes sweeps away 
the dam, causing a frightful destruction to life 
and property. 
At the present day the dyke system has been 
brought to such a state of perfection that over¬ 
flows are of rare occurrence, save during seasons 
of unusually violent and protracted storms. 
But a hundred years ago, the low country was at 
the[mercy of the sea; for the dame were vastly 
inferior to those of to-day, and the system of 
drainage was but imperfectly understood. Then 
overflows were both frequent and terrible. 
Sometimes miles of country were laid under 
water, and thousands of human beings drowned. 
The greatest of all these disasters occurred near¬ 
ly six hundred years ago, when the ocean swept 
away nearly as much land as is contained In 
Wales, and destroyed many towns and several 
thousand human beings and cattle. 
At the time of which we write, more than a 
century ago, the low country was in constant 
danger, and the season of etorras was always a 
period of dread and anxiety to the people. Many 
were the tales which were told at winter Are- 
sides by the old folk, of dangers incurred and 
lucky escapes made in moments of peril from 
the waters, until even the little children came 
to think of the sea with a feeling of horror and 
dread, and to regard it as their mortal enemy. 
Indeed, we may say that the people were in a 
state of constant suspense, which may have done 
much to give them the patient courage which 
they have transmitted to their decendants. 
Mothers would clasp their little ones to their 
breast, and wonder if they would ever grow to 
manhood and womanhood, or how long it would 
be before the cruel sea would rise in its wrath, 
and sweep them aU into one common grave. 
Every one, therefore, watched the dykes; and 
the government -always felt assured, that wheth¬ 
er the agents were faithful or not, the vigilance 
of the people never slept, and that any danger 
would be detected at once. 
In the year 1759, there lived on the shore of 
the German Ocean, in the province of North 
Holland, a poer fisherman by the name of Dirk 
Daunekcr. He had a family of young children, 
the usual accompaniment of a poor man’s lot; 
but be was iucky in having a wife who made the 
plied them with fish; but of incut they had none. 
Dirk Damieker’s ancestors had been fishermen 
before him, and some hud found a last resting 
place in the blue waters which had supplied their 
daily wants in life. His futher had perished in 
an inundation twenty years before and be himself 
had narrowly escaped being drowned. It had left | 
a vivid impression upon his mind, and be shud- 1 
dered to think of it, though a score of years had 
elapsed since then. He had six children, four 
boys and two girls, all as pale-faced and moon- 
eyed as tbemoEt ardent Hollander eonld have 
desired. They were remarkably good, sensible 
Children—the. oldest being just sixteen, and the 
youngest about seven—and their parents were as 
proud as they were fond of them. 
The fourth child, lions by name, was the 
mother’s pet. He was just ten year# old, and j 
had a sweet, wistful face, such as any painter 
would have been eager to transfer to canvas. He 
was a quiet, thoughtful child, and, though warm¬ 
hearted, was undemonstrative. At the first 
glance you would have thought him effeminate, 
but, upon a closer examination of the features, 
you could not but think that the grave, firm lips, 
which were strongly marked in one so young, 
were true indices of determination and courage 
of the highest order. 
Little Haus loved to listen to the stories which 
bis father would tell of the dangers of a fisher¬ 
man’# life; but the best of all to those which 
related to the terrible inroads of the 6ea upon 
his native land. He pondered over them grave¬ 
ly, and often spoke to his parents of them. 
Sometimes hi# father, smiling at his wise re¬ 
marks, would say: 
“ My little Hans, when you arc a big man like 
me you will be a fisherman aud sail my boat.” 
But Hans would reply, gravely: 
“No; when I am a man I shall ask the king 
to let me watch the dyke#, and I will keep back 
the sea, and save my country from suffering aud 
sorrow." 
l’oung si# he was, Hans watched his dykes. 
Every day and every night before he said his 
prayers and went to bed he would go out to the 
dyke in front of his father’s hut and examine it 
carefully; and a# soon as he was up in the 
morning he would repeat the search. His moth¬ 
er watched him wistfully, but said uotbiDg; yet 
she never ceased to fear that the 6ca would take 
him from her. 
The winter that brought little Hans’ tenth 
birth day was a wild and stormy season. 8uch 
a constant and unbroken succession of gales had 
not been known in the German Ocean for a cen¬ 
tury. The king sent orders to the low countries 
to watch the dams with ceaseless care; and an 
increased force was stationed along the coast, 
with orders to be in readiness to repairany sluice 
at a moment’s warning. Night and day a watch 
was kept all along the coast. 
But the best watchman there was little Hans 
Dauneker. He went his rounds regularly, and 
his eyeB never passed over a sqnare inch of the 
embankment without ascertaining thoroughly 
its condition. 
One night, about mid-winter, a wild storm 
was passing along the coast. It was a fearful 
6torm, and had been raging with unabated vio¬ 
lence for three days. 
,l It’s a bad time,” said Dirk Dauneker, gloom¬ 
ily. “ If the dykes can stand this, we need fear 
nothing else.” 
The mother looked on little Hans, but he said 
nothing; aud sat with his eyes fixed dreamily 
on the fire. Presently he arose and went into 
the outer room. There he wrapped himself in 
his warm coat and lit his father’s lantern. He 
was leaving the house, when his mother, who 
had followed him silently, laid her hand on his 
shoulder. 
“ Where are you going, child ? ” she said. 
“ To look at my dyke, mother,” he replied. 
“ On such a night as this ? ” 
“ I could not sleep, mother, unless I did so. 
1 must do my little work for home and father- 
land.” 
The mother could not refuse him; so she laid 
her hand on his head and said tenderly, “ May 
heaven bless thee and keep thee, child.” 
The little Hans went ont into the storm. H<? 
soon reached what he called his post; and found 
everything safe and secure. Something, he knew 
not what, urged him to go beyond his usual 
walk, and he kept on toward the north, flashing 
his lantern along the side of the dyke, and ex¬ 
amining the earth wall with anxious eyes. He 
was very cool; hut he could not turn back. 
Something kept urging him onward—onward. 
He had been walking on for more than an 
hour when he suddenly paused, and bent down 
toward tbe grouud with a cry of alarm. The 
water was flowing in through a small opening, 
scarce half an inch in diameter, but as the child 
watched he could see that it was gradually grow¬ 
ing larger. 
His first impulse was to return homeland give 
the alarm; hut he reflected that the opening in 
the dyke would grow larger every moment, and 
that it would be too late to cheek the water 
when his father arrived. Something must be 
done at once, and he must do it. 
He put down his lantern, and with his little 
hands tried to scrape together earth enough to 
stop the leak. The cold was so intense, and the 
ground so hard, that be made little or no pro¬ 
gress ; and the terrible opening in the dyke grew 
larger every moment. Little Haus shuddered, 
and then paused in perplexity and distress. 
Then, without hesitating longer, he tore off his 
warm coat, aud rolling it up like a wad, pressed 
it against the crevice. The water forced it away, 
however, and the boy found that in order to 
stop the cnrrect he must, hold it there with all 
his strength. 
would not be equal to the task of sustaining his 
life through the night. Still be was determined j 
to make the effort, for he knew that if the sea 
broke through his parents and brothers and sis¬ 
ter* would be drowned, and all the country 
round about destroyed. 
So the child seated himself on the ground, 
nrul pressed with ail his might against the open¬ 
ing with bis thick coat. Soon he felt that the 
water ceased to flow through. Yet it took all 
hi# strength of will and body, all his courage to 
su#tain him, for he was growing numb with the 
cold and suffering greatly. His pain increased 
every moment, and then it ceased, and he felt a 
dreamy, pleasant languor steal over him. 
He seemed to hear strains of rwoet music, and 
voice# crying, “ Blessed child! Gor> has blessed 
the little Huns! ” It was very sweet, and he 
wondered what bad become of the cold and 
storm, but he never relaxed his grasp on the 
opening. * * * #■ * 
When the morning dawned it found Dirk 
Dauneker and his wife starching wearily for 
their child along the dyke, for the storm wiuj dy¬ 
ing away and the sun was coming out again. 
“ Alas! ” sobbed tbe mother, “ be has perished 
in the storm; and when he left me, I asked 
heaven to bless him ! ” 
The father paused, and a great cry escaped 
his lip#. 
“Look, wife! ” he cried. “Has not heaven 
blessed our boy? See! He has made him the 
saviour of our country.” 
Yes, there Jay little Hans, hi6 form stiff and 
rigid, and his face pinched and pale, but with his 
hands pressed tightly against hi#coat, which was 
now frozen to the dyke. Even in death the 
child had not relaxed his grasp upon the coat; 
aDd, a# be bad fallen upon it in dying, his weight 
had kept it pressed against tbe opening uutil it 
froze there. 
Heaven had indeed blessed him, for He had 
made the child the means of saving the province 
from destruction. 
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85P“ Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Enral New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 27 letters. 
My 8,18, 4. 25,12, 23 is a carpenter’s tool. 
My 16, 9. 20,13 Is rain. 
My 14, 24,11, 21, 7,18,1,11, 7 is a coin. 
My 10,15, 8, 6,11,12 is center. 
My 27, 5,1 is a domestic animal. 
My 17, 2,13, 26,13, 22,12,19 an Irishman is fond of. 
My whole is a quotation from Sbakspeare’s “Mer¬ 
chant of Venice.” 
Syracuse, N. Y. h. e. p. 
Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM. 
A mas expends <100 for books. He buys Histories 
at $4 each; Bibles at <5 each, and Testaments at 20 
cents each. How many of each kind mast he pur¬ 
chase in order that he may have jnst 103 hooks ? 
Greenwich, N. Y. a. d. n. 
U-g~ Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
AN ANAGRAM. 
Obp ew rac eht seam rou etafher heav eben; 
We ese het mcas sthigs nor herstaf eavh nees; 
Ew nirdk teh easm steamr, ew wiev het mase uns, 
Nad urn eth emas seonre om farshet vahe urn. 
Portviilc, N. Y. J. H. h. 
Answer in two weeks. 
MISS A. TRAIN. 
I no not love Miss-Fortune— 
To her arts I bid defiance, 
And I neveil should importune 
To a nautii.yi: Miss-AUiaDce. 
I’ve hated kise-Constrnction • 
Whenever 1 have seen her, 
So 1 should not, by induction, 
Much care for Miss-Demeanor. 
But of all the misses various— 
That are of horrid pain 
The cause, like grinders curious— 
The worst is “Miss A. Train I” 
Vegetable Poem.— A poetical young garden¬ 
er, somewhere iu the South, while despondent 
from the effects of the late unseasonable weath¬ 
er, gets ofl the following meliflnou# strains: 
“Onion garden bed reclining 
Beets a youth bis aching head; 
‘ Cauliflowers! Lo. weeds confront me: 
Lettuce hence,’ be sadly said. 
Carrots out the stoutest manhood, 
Peas my wearied soul doth need; 
Bean OI strife for me hereafter, 
Else my heart will go to seed.” 
Those two observing men, one of whom said 
that be had always noticed when he lived through 
the month of May he lived through the year, and 
the other of whom said at a wedding, that he 
had remarked that more women than men had 
been married that year, were neither of them 
Irishmen. 
An old hotel keeper in Washington once post¬ 
ed on his dining-room door the following notice: 
“Members of Congress will go to the table first, 
and then the gentlemen. Rowdies and black¬ 
guard# must not mix with Congressmen, as it is 
hard to tell one freon ’tother.” 
On some railroads it is customary to have a 
lock on the stove to prevent passengers from 
meddling with the fire. A wag being asked why 
they locked the skive, coolly replied that “it 
was to prevent the fire from going out?” 
A celebrated Concert vocalist, upon apply¬ 
ing for board iu 4 house that was lull, upon 
being shown a room on the top story, replied, 
very innocently, that he had no disposition to 
become an upper-attic (operatic) singer. 
E&gs-actlt. —Amau boasted yesterday of hav¬ 
ing eaten forty-nine hard boiled eggs. “ Why did 
yon not eat one and make even filty ?” asked old 
Bounds. “ Humpli, yon want a man to make a 
-hog of himself for one egg.” 
A grim, hard-headed old judge, after hearing a 
flowery discourse from a pretentious young bar¬ 
rister, advised him to pluck out the feathers from 
the wiugs of his imagination and stick them in 
the tail of his judgment. 
Diogenes being asked why it was that philoso¬ 
phers sought the society of the rich much more 
than the latter sought theirs, replied:—“Be¬ 
cause philosophers know what they want, and 
the others do not.” 
An Irishman was once asked to define an Irish 
bull; to which he replied, “ Whenever you see 
two cows lying down in a field, the one that’s 
standing up is a bull.” This very lucid expla¬ 
nation will do. 
Scene :—Young lovers on the balcony, Time, 
evening. Mr. Billin — “Oh, how culm, how 
sweet and peaceful the moon looks! ” Miss 
Cooen—“ Yes; but don’t you think it looks very 
conspicuous?” 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c., IN No. 899. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—Where there 
is a will there is a way. 
Answer to Anagram: 
Out of shadow springs tbe ennuhine, 
Ont of du«k the daylight grows; 
April flowers are no less lovely. 
For their birth beneath the mows. 
Answer to Arithmetical Question:—4 absent, 16 
in all. 
Answer to Printer’s Rebus: 
A little dark-e in bed and nothing over him. 
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