I November 7. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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six months, at tlio rate of £15 a-year, with rations of twelve 
pounds of bcof or mutton, ten pounds of flour, one-and a- 
half pounds of sugar, and four ounces of tea, weekly. I 
like this place very well, and do not repent coming here. I 
am about four or live hundred miles from Sidney, about two 
miles from G-, a little village on the bank of the river. 
I am at a boiling-down establishment. There are several 
i thousand cattle and sheep to be killed and boiled down here, 
just to get the tallow There came 135 large cattle here to 
be killed this week. They are boiled by steam, and the beef 
thrown away in large heaps. My master lias me often 
skimming fat. This is not weighty work; but a person is 
dirtied with tallow. * * * * Our master, Mr. -, 
came to us since I commenced to write, and says, if we have 
good conduct and do well, he will add thirty shillings to our 
wages : he is a fine man, and a magistrate. I believe there 
is a minister who preaches in G-, one day on this side 
the river, and another on the far side. It has happened so, 
that I did not see nor hear him yet. Sunday first is his day 
on our side the river, and we hope to go to hear him. Dear 
Sir, I do not intend to stop here long : there are but very 
few white men, and they are generally of a very bad cha¬ 
racter. The black people are very plenty; they are generally 
naked: they robbed some huts. There is no labour done 
here. The provisions must all come up from Sidney. * * * 
“ P.S.—I humbly thank you for all your kindness to me 
ever since I became acquainted with you. I shall never 
forget you. I have thought very much on you and Mrs. J. 
during the tedious voyage. The Lord was very good to me 
in giving me an upper berth in the vessel, just at a little 
window, so that I had a good opportunity of reading my 
Bible, and avoiding bad companions." 
Another, addressed to his grandmother, contains the fol¬ 
lowing passages:— 
“ Dear Grandmother,—As you have heard that I arrived 
hero safe, I hope you will not fret about me. Although I 
am in a distant land, yet the Lord has not forsaken me. He 
is in this land as well as at home, and He is also on the 
mighty waters. You know His word to the believer is, ‘ I 
will never leave thee nor forsake thee.’ He was as parents 
to me. He says, ‘ I will be a father to you ; ’ and this was 
my comfort during the voyage. When I considered, and 
saw that I had no relatives with me in the ship, nor any 
before me in the colony, my spirits were ready to sink; but 
the Bible comforted me, and I had no reason to be cast 
down. Those who were near me, or with me in the vessel, 
were very kind to me, and ready to minister to my wants. 
This was all the goodness of God. I hope to return home 
in a few years; and, perhaps, I will yet see you, and tell you 
more about this colony : but should we not have the privi¬ 
lege of seeing each other on earth, let each of us be pre¬ 
pared to meet in heaven. Dear grandmother, we will lean 
on Jesus. He will not forsake us. His blood is sufficient 
to cleanse us from all sin. Timo is short, and life uncer¬ 
tain ; so we cannot trust to anything here. God is the stay 
of old age. I pray God to preserve you to your latter end; 
and, when it is His blessed will, take you to dwell in heaven 
above.” 
To his brother:— 
“ My work is at a boiling-down establishment. The 
business is carried on day and night—Sunday as well as 
Saturday. I have not wrought on Sunday yet, nor do I 
ever intend to do so, though our superintendent wanted me 
several times; but I refused, and told him I would not work 
| on Sunday, nor never did. He was very angry, and swore at 
me, that I should not be so religious ; that if I refused to 
work on the Sabbath, I would only be laughed at.” 
A perfect amount of irreligion and worldliness prevails 
where Sabbath ordinances and privih ges are possessed; but 
where they are not to be found, how Satan triumphs ! Soon, 
the very Sabbath rest is neglected and forgotten, and a very 
distinguishing mark of God’s covenant with man blotted 
out. The sin brings speedy punishment; for it is a decree 
of the Most High God, that neither man or beast can live 
without such portions of rest as He has appointed; and, 
therefore, disease and death stalk grimly beside Sabbath¬ 
breaking. How terrible it is, when Christians,—not nominal, 
but real ones,—are led to stray into devious paths ; and, for 
the sake of wordly good, stand in the way of sinners ! The 
! command, to “ trust in the Lord,” is so frequent, so solemn, 
and so powerfully expressed in the Word of God, that i 
true believers, it would seem, never could disregard it. j 
They might, through the infirmity of the flesh, “ cry, yea ' 
roar," to the Lord, for help and deliverance, while their 
spirits faimed within them; but to go deliberately, and of 
one’s own accord, into the midst of Satan's haunts, where 
abstinence from every religious and spiritual privilege is | 
compulsory, and where there may be said to be “ No God,” 
is such a fatal and backsliding step, that it makes the heart 
tremble. It points so plainly to unbelief, that it startles ' 
and astounds us; as if He, whom we trust for spiritual ! 
support in a land of spiritual drought and famine, could not | 
as easily support our bodies and supply our wants in the 
land where His hand has planted us ! Almost every other 
spot where England rules is blest with the means of grace; 
but poor John Henry sought his maintenance where there i 
was no “ brook in the way," and we shall now find that his 1 
devout and devoted heart found out its mistake, and fainted I 
within him. 
Readers ! this is a wholesome, profitable lesson to us. | 
Let us improve by it. Let those who are trying and seeking j 
to walk with God, examine themselves closely in every 
circumstance of their lives, yea, in every incident; and 
never let go outward privileges for any earthly gain. They j 
are not Christ, it is true; but they are helps and under- 1 
girders; and being commanded, enjoined, and supplied 
by His Word and grace, we cannot undervalue or resign 
them, without guilt and grief, and fatal damage to our 
immortal souls. 
NOSEGAYS. 
Tit for Tat.—The plan adopted by your excellent cor¬ 
respondent, “ S. P., Rushmere," for making that pyramidal 
nosegay for the wedding table, page 09, is quite new, at 
least, it is so to me, and, if I am not mistaken, it is perfectly 
original. As every new plan or invention is so much ad¬ 
ditional power, and may lead to farther improvement and 
ingenuity, we should very much like to hear how the prin¬ 
cipal wedding nosegays for the last six months were made; 
not the kind of flowers which were put together, for they are 
of less consequence than the way they were fastened and 
held together. The damp moss was an excellent idea; and 
once the moss was secured in the proper form to the handle, 
sticking in the flowers like pins into a pin-cushion, was the 
best and most practical plan ; at this late season of the year 
flowers keep a long time in damp moss, and much better 
than in water, or even in damp sand; it should be live moss, \ 
however, to get the full benefit of it. On the principle that 
one good turn deserves another, I shall give another way of ' 
making a pyramidal nosegay for a select party ; but I am j 
not a professed nosegay-maker myself, I only know how j 
some kinds of them are made. I called at a place the other : 
day “ promiscuously,” and I heard that a bishop and other j 
dignitaries were to lunch at the house on the morrow ; this t 
place has been noted for good flowers, and better taste ; the 
party, or most of them, were known to be fond of flowers, j 
and good critics on their arrangement. The credit of the | 
place being thus likely to be brought to the proof, a 
good nosegay for the luncheon-table was proposed, and 
I had the good luck of seeing it finished, and put by ! 
in a cool room; but I hardly put a hand to it myself, ! 
I merely gathered some of the flowers, suggested the form [ 
and mode of manufacture—the ladies did the rest; they said 
it was the first of the kind they had done, and I shall not 
be far out if I say that a better table nosegay was not made j 
so near to London this season. All that I shall say about ; 
the flowers is, that as this fine nosegay was to be seen by 
daylight, no colour could come amiss to it; but we must j- 
bear in mind that deep blue and deep purple flowers look 
black by candlelight, and every shade of violet and purple 
is lost in the same way, and, therefore, for evening parties, , 
such as scarlets, crimsons, white, yellow, and orange, with ' 
rose, rosy-pink, aud reddish-purple, should be exclusively 1 
made use of. 
The first thing is to have a right kind of stand for the 
nosegay; the one in hand had a silver stand, but a brown 
jar would do if one likes it, and a soup plate that would fit 
on the top of the jar would do to stand the nosegay 
on. Now, if one had already a gold, or silver, or china-ware, 
