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Scatter ye seeds—tire not, but toil;
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man;
In the head, in the heart, and on earth’s
own soil
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span.
Scatter ye seeds in the field of mind—
Seeds of flowers with seednof grain;
In the Spring and Summer sweet garlands
ye'll find,
And in the Autumn ye’ll reap rich fruits
for ygur pain..
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Seeds of uffeotion, of truth and of love;
Cultivate carefblly each hidden part,
And thy flowers will be seen by angels
above.
Scatter ye seeds—the seeds of Hope;
Plant in your bosom the Tree of Life—
Then the flowers here budding in Heaven
will ripen the fruits of
Then scatter ye seeds each passing year—
SoW amid winds and storms' of rain—
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I'ht j?torjj-£tlltr.
Who Murdered DowMe!
About the end of the eighteenth century',
whenever any student of the Marshall Col
lege, Aberdeen, incurred the displeasure of
the humbler citizens, he was assailed with
the question, ••Who murdered Downie?”—
Reply and rejoinder generally brought on a
collision between ««town and gownAl
though the young gentlemen were accused
of what was chronologically impossible, peo
ple have a right-to be angry at being stig
matised as murderers, when their accusers
have probability on their side; but the ««ta
king off’ of Bjwiie occurred when the
gownsmen, so maligned, were in swaddling
clothes.
But there was a time, when to he branded
as an accomplice in-the slauhgtor of Richard
Downie, made the blood run to the cheek of
many a youth, and sent him home to his
books thoughtful and subdued. Downie
was sacrist, or janitor at Marshall College.
One of his duties consisted in securing the
gate by a certain hour; previous to which
all the students had to assemble in the com
mon hall, Where a Latin prayer was deliv-
ed by the principal. Whether, in discharg
ing this function, Downie was more rigid
than bis predecessor in office, or whether he
became stricter in the performance of it at
one *hn» than another, cannot now be ascer
tained s but there cab be no doubt that he
closed the gate with austere punctuality,
and that those who were not in the common
halt within a minute of the prescribed time,
were shat out, and were afterwards repri,
'sanded and fined by the principal and pro
fessors. The students became irritated at
this strictness, awl took every petty means
of annoying the sacrist; he, in his torn, ap
plied the screw in other points of academic
outine, sad a fierce war soon began to rage
between the collegians and toe bumble fane-
tionary. Downie took care that in all his
proceedings he kept within the strict letter
of to* law; but his Opponents wen not so
camfel, are* tMderirisns of therefore were
uniformly against town, and in flavor ef
Downie. Reprimanda awi Into having fail
ed in produciugdna subordination
trace of expulsion had to be put
sad, in the anA, law mad enter prevailed.
But a secret aad deadly grudge continued to
be entertained against Downie. Various
scheme of revenge were thought of.
Downie was, to lommnn with teachers aad
taught, enjoying toe fofowa at toe abort
New Year's vacation—toe pleasure bring no
doubt greatly enhanced by the annoyances
to which he has bean subjected dariagtoe
as ha was out
hfolharily in his official
at the grte,n
tie tort * gentleman aft a
to quels with
lighted by a solitary candle. After waiting ' point out toe guilty or suspected fifty l—
for some time to this strange place, about
fifty figures, also addressed in black, and
with black masks <m their -faces, presented
Moreover, ike students scattered over the
city, and the magistrates themselves had
many of toe number amongst their own
themselves. They arranged themselves in ! families, and it was not desirable to go into
the form of a court, and Downie, pale with I too affair too minutely.
terror, was given to understand ho was
about to be put oa his trial.
A judge took his aeat enthe bench; a clerk
and public prosecutor sat below; a jury
was empanelled to front; and witnesses sad
spectators stood around. Downie at first aat
down the whole affair as a joke; but toe
proceedings wore conducted with, such per
sistent gravity, that, in spate of himself, he
begin to believe in toe genuine mission of
the awful tribunal. The clerk read an in
dictment, charging him with conspiring
against the liberties of the students; wit
nesses were examined in due form, the pub
lic prosecutor addressed .the jury, and the
judge summed up.
« Geutlemen,” said Downie, •< the joke has
been carried far enough—it is getting late,
and my wife and family will be getting anx
ious about me. If I havebeen too strict with
you in times past, I am sorry for it, and I
assure you I will take more care in future.”
•< Gentlemen of the jury,” said the judge,
without paying the slightest attention to
this appeal, « consider your verdict; and if
you wish to retire, do so.”
The jury retired. During their absence,
the most profound silence was observed; and
except renewing the solitary candle that
burnt beside the judge, there was not the
slightest movement.
The jury returned and recorded a verdict
of Guilty.
The judge solemly assumed a huge black
cap, and addressed the prisoner:—
« Richard Downie! The jury have unani
mously found yon guilty of oonspiring a-
gaiust the just liberty and immunities of the
students of Marshall College. You have
wantonly provoked and insulted those inof
fensive lieges for some months, Mid your
punishment will assuredly be condign. You
must prepare for death. Id fifteen minutes,
the sentonee of the court wLl be carried in
to effect.” ,
The judge placed his watch upon the
beach. A block, an axe, and a bag of saw-
duot, were brought into the centre of the
room. A figure more terrible than any that
had yet appeared, came forward, and .pre
pared to act the part of dooms ter.
It was now post midnight; there waa no
sound audible save the ominous ticking of
the judge's watch, pownie became more and
more alarmed.
•• For any sake, gentlemen,” said the ter
rified man, «let me go home. I promise
that yon never again shaU have cause for
complaint.”
<> Richard Downie,” remarked the judge,
« yon are vainly wasting the few. moments
thatnre left you on earth. You are in the
hands of those who must have your life. No
man power can save you. Attempt to utter
one cry, and yon are seiaed, and your doom
completed before you can utter another.
Every one here present has sworn a solemn
oath never to reveal the proceedings of this
night; they are known to none but our
selves ; and when the object for which we
have met is accomplished, we shall disperse
unknown to any one. Prepare^ then, for
death; other five minutes will he allowed,
but no more.
The unfortunate man, in an agony of
deadly terror, raved and shrieked for mer
cy ; but the avengers paid no heed to his
cries. His fevered, trembling lips then mov
ed as if in silent prayer; tor he felt that
the brief space between him and eternity
was but as a few more ticking* of that om
inous watch.
« Now r exclaimed the judge.
Four persons stopped forward and seized
Downie, on whoee features a cold, clammy
sweat had buret forth. They bared his neck,
and made him kneel before the block.
«. Striker exclaimed the judge.
The exftentiones struck the toe on the
floor; an assistant on the opposite tide lift
ed, at toft same moment, a Wet towel, aad
struck it acrasm toe neck of the recumbent
criminal. A load laugh announced that toe
joke had at last come to an end.
Bat Downie responded net to ttt uproar
ious merriment they laughed again—bat
still he moved not—they lifted him, hat
Downie was deed ]
Fright had killed him aa effectually aa if
the axe of ureal headsman had aerated his
head frees his body.
It waa n tragedy to alL The medical
students tried to open aware,fart it was ever;
and the eoaqeretora hnd'new to Mtoiak
themselves ef safety. They now in reality
affrighted yawag man, carrying fear dis
guise into tomft, left toe body ef Dowser ly
ing in the boteL One of their untobar told
the laadleed that the entertainment waa net
yet quite ever, and that they fid mat with
the individual that waa left m tha reem to
be disturbed for asm* houre. This was to
pee them all time to make their escape.
Next morning the bedy wen found. Ju
dicial inqmry was instituted, baft ae antis
factaey result coaid ha arrived aft. The
ee«p»efpeor Dannie exhibited an aaelk of
The ill-will
Uoftaadtoe
i in the hotel for a
townee hud hi
feyuad this nrikieg «may.
Downie's widow and' family were provided
for—and his slaughter remained a mystery;
until, about fifteen years after its occur
rence, a gentleman on his death-bed dis
closed the whole particulars, and avowed
himself to have belonged to the obnoxious
class of students who murdered-Downie. -
A Sketch.
Jerusalem slept os quietly
passions, triumphed, and. she yielded op her
babes to the spectre.
« Behold f* said Death as he toadied the
fair forms, and toe beauty of llf« gave place
to a holier and yet deeper loveliness, « be
hold, the smile of innocence, is now forever
sealed. They will awake where there is
neither blight nor tempest.” And the be,
nign power, whom we call the Spoiler, bore
away the now perfected bleeaoms of immor
tality to the far-off akj.
It YfiB’t DO.
EY WILLIAM MATHEWS.
It is curious how many thousand things
there are, which it won't do to do upon this
cosy planet of ours, Whereon we eat, sleep,
and get our dinners. For instance—
It won't do to plunge into a law-suit, re
lying wholly on the justice of your cause,
and net equipped beforehand with a brim
ming puree.
It won’t do to tweak a man's nose, or tell
him he lies, unless you are perfectly satis
fied he has not spunk enough to resent it by
It w*s night,
amid her hills, as a child upon the breast
of its mother. The noiseless sentinel stood
like a statute at his post, and the philoso
pher's light burned dimly in toe recesses of
his chamber.
But a darker night was abroad upon toe
earth. A moral darkness involved the na
tions in unlightened shadows. Reason shed
a faint glimmering over the minds of men,
like the cold and inefficient shining of a dis
tant star. They immortality of man’s spir
itual nature waa unknown, his relations to
Heaven undiscovered, and his ft^gtre-desti
ny obscured in a cloud of mystery.
It was at this period that two forms of
etherial mould hovered above the land of
God's chosen people. The seemed sister an.
gels sent to earth upon some embassy cf
love. The one was of majestic stature, and
in the well formed limbs which her snowy
drapery hardly concealed, in her erect bear
ing, and steady eye, were exhibited the
highest degree of strength and confidence.
Her right arm was extended in an expres
sive gesture upward, where night appeared
to have placed her darkest pavillion, while
on her left reclined her delicate companion,
in form and countenance the contrast of the
other, for she was drooping like the flower
when unmoistened by refreshing dews, and
her bright but troubled eye scanned the air
with ardent but varying glances. Sudden
ly a light tike the sun flashed out from the
heavens, and faith and hope hailed with ex
ulting songs the ascending star of Bethle
hem.
Years rolled away, and a stranger was
seen in Jerusalem. He was a meek, and un
assuming man, whose happiness seemed to
consist in acts of benevolence to the human
race. There were deep traces of sorrow on
his countenance, though no one knew why
he grieved, for he lived in the practice of
every virtue, and was loved by all the wise
and good. By and by it was rumored that
the stranger worked miracles, that the blind
saw, the dumb spake, and the dead leaped
to life at his touch; that when he command
ed, the ocean moderated its chafing tide, and
the very thunders articulated, he is the son
of God. Envy assailed him with the charge
of sorcery, and the voice of impious judges
condemned him to death. Slowly and thick
ly guarded, he ascended the hill to Calvary.
A heavy cross bent hin\ to the earth. But
faith leaned cm his arm, and hope dipping
her pinions in his blood, mottBtuA . to toe
skies. '—* "-
Xirkiie Parity
The following specimen of,«poetry rnn
mad,’ is hard to beat. It is the production blowing your brains out or /if you have no
of one of the newly invented, patent ma- brains) cracking your scull,
chines to manufacture verse . to order,’ and i t woa t do, when riding in a stage coach,
the mixed, up and conglomerated shape in to talk of another man whom yon have not
which the tines < fall in’is owing probably, personally seen, as being an •< all-fired
to the crank being somewhat > ut of order, scoundrel,’’ until you are absolutely sUre
The genius who presides over the machine, he is not sitting before you.
says that when the wheels are well oiled up, I It won t do, when snow-drifts are piled up
and it • gets the hang of the office, it will; mountains high, and sleighs are eternally
A Sketch.
' A mother was kneeling in the deep hush
of evening, at the couch of two infants,
whoee rosy arms were twined in a mutual
embrace. A slumber, soft as the moonlight
that fell through the lattice over them, tike
a silvery veil, lay on their delicate tips—
the soft bright curls that clustered on their
pillow were slightly stirred by their gentle
and hcaithly breathings, and that smile,
which h—™ from the pure depths of the
fresh glad spirit, yet rested on their red
lips The mother looked upon their exceed
ing beauty with a momentary pride—and
then, as she continued to gase on the lovely,
slumber era, her dark eye deepened with aa
iwij-m. aad unutterable fondness, and a
.cold shuddering fear came over her, lest
those buds of life, so fair, so glowing, might
be touched with sudden decay, and gathered
hack in their brightness to the dust. And
she lifted her voice in prayer, solemnly,
passionately/ earnestly, that the Giver of
Life would still Vug to her those blossoms
Of love, oTer whom her soul‘thus yearned.
And as the low breathed accents rose on the
still *1^, ^deepened thought came over her,
and her spirit went out with her loved and
pure ones into the strange wild paths of life,
aad a strong horror chilled her frame as she
beheld mildew aad blight settling on the
fair aad loveij aft the earth, end high aeri
rich hearts aeathed with desolating and guil
ty passions. And the prayer she was breath-
ing grew yet mare fervent, even to agony
that He who art the fenrtain ef all parity.
. were these whose He hadgiven
in there perfect innocence, perarittin*
■are nor crime, nor folly, to east
a stain on the brightness with wfaiefr she
had received there invested from His hand
aa with a mantle.
As toe prayer died away in the weakness
of the apart spirit, a pale shadowy fem
stood beside the infant sleepers. “I*
Death.” arid the spectre, ..and Iareoame
fire toy babes I are
there where the perils you
■. can reach the rejoicing spirit. R
■ arty by yielding there to as yea can
A wild
run with very tittle jar, or vibration, and
turn off . fust rate Poetree.’ Gentlemen
and ladles who have < all the melancholy
madness of the Poet, without the inspira
tion,’ can have any subject or sentiment
they please versified on short notice and rea
sonable terms. . Orders respectfully solic
ited.’
There is not a wide world in this valley so
sweet,
As where they have lobsters and oysters to
eat;
And down to that beach a poor exile of
Erin,
One morning I spied with a hungry maw
steerin;
The dew on his thin robe hung heavy and
chill,
And he walked into the oysters end muscles
to kill.
Hail Columbia, happy land!
Far worse times are nigh at hand;
If I could read my title clear,
To California I would steer,
And^hose who met me on the Way
I have no doubt to me would say,
0, tell me, blue-eyed stranger,
Say, whither dost thou roam ?
Through these cane-brakes a ranger,
Hast thou no settled home ?
Oh, say, can you sec by the dawn's earry
light,
The mosquito we heard at the twilight’s
last gleaming ?
The mttsquito that hit us so fiercely at night
That kept us aU either from sleeping or
dreaming ?
Loud roared the dreadful thunder,
The rain a deluge poured,
The clouds seemed rent asunder,
Yet wife lay still and snored!
And then -I sung,
With trembling tongue,
Hush, my dear, tic still and slumber,
Valiant armies guard thy bed,
Fleas and bed-bugs without.number, •
Gently wander round thy head!
Oft in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain hath bound me,
I think I feel a cursed bite,
. Of something crawling -round me!
The Luitie ud the SporUmaa.
A gentleman of fortune visited a lunatic
asylum, where the treatment consisted chief
ly of forcing the patients to stand in tube of
cold water—those slightly affected, np to
the knees; others, whose cases were graver,
up to the middle; while persons very seri
ously- ill were immersed up to the neck. The
visitor entered into conversation with one of
the patients, who appeared to have some cu
riosity to know how the stranger passed his
time out of doors. < I have horses and grey
hounds for coursing,’ said the latter in re
ply to the other's question. • Ah! these are
very expensive.’ < Tea; they coat me a great
deal of money in the year, but they are the
best of their kind. f . Have you any thing
more ? « Yea, I have a pack of hounds for
hunting the fox.’ < And these cost a great
deal, too ?’ < A very great deal; birds for
hunting birds, < and these swell up the ex
pense, I dare say ?’ < You may say that, for
they are not common in this country. And
then I go out alone with my gun accompa
nied by a setter and a retriever.’ < And
these are expensive, too V < Of course. Af
ter all it is not the animals of themselves
that run away wtih the mercy: there mas:
he men, you know, to feed and look after
th—, booses to lodge there in—in abort, the
whole sporting establishment.’ . I see, 1
sea; your horses, hounds, set area, retrievers,
hawks, mm—aad all for the capture of fox
es and buds; what aa enormous revenue
tbeyreast coat you 1 Nov what I want to
kuov is this: what return do they pay ?—
what does yuur year's sporting produce ?’
. Why, wo kill a fox new and than—only
they are getting rather scarce hereabouts—
endue seldom bag leas than fifty brace of
birds each season.’ • Barit!' sued the toas
tie, looking anxiously round hire. • My
upsetting, to ride out with a beautiful, live
ly, fascinating girl, and not expect to get
smashed with her.
It won t do for a man, when a horse kicks
him, to kicn back at the horse.
It won t do to crack on jokes old thaids
in the presence of unmarried todies who
have passed the age of forty.
It won t do to imagine a Legislature, fed
at the public crib, will sit but six weeks,
when two-thirds of the members have not
the capacity to earn a decent living at home.
It won't do for a man to bump his head
against a stone post, because he conscienti
ously believes that his head is the hardest.
It won t de, when a mosquito bites your
face in the night, to beat your own crani
um to pieces w : tb your fist, under the im
pression that you are killing the mnsquito.
It won’t do for a chap to imagine a girl is
indifferent to him because she studiously
avoids him in company.
It won’t do lor a young lady to presume
that more than a third of the gentlemen who
show her pointed attentions, have the most
distant idea of marrying her.
It. won t do for it man to fancy a lady is
in love with him because she treats him civ
illy, or that she has virtually engaged her
self to lnm because she has always endured
his company.
It won t do, when in a hurry, to eat aoup
with a two-pronged fork, or try to catch flies
with a fish net.
It won’t do to be desperately enamored of
a pretty face because you have seen it at
the breakfast table.
It won t to to be so devoted to a tender
hearted wile as to comply implicitly with
her request when she asks you, •• Now, tum
ble over tne cradle, and break your neck,
won’t you.”
It won t do to take hold of a hair-trigger
pistol during a fit of the blues.
It won't do for a politician to imagine
himself«lected to the Gubernatorial chair,
while “ the back counties are to be heard
from.”
it won t do to pop the question more than
a dozen times alter the lady has said •< No 1
It won t do to extol the beauty ol a lady, s
hair before you know wiietuer it did not
once beioug to another lady s head.
It won t do to talk of cabbage when tail
ors are standing by, nor of wooden nutmegs
and white wood bams, when there are Con
necticut Yankees about.
it won t do to go barefoot in winter to get
rid of trouble from corns.
It won t do to take every man to do that
you would hke to do, even if so to do would
be to do yourself a iavor. It won t do !
If to move a mountain task you.
Stone by stone you may achieve r
But a life would fritter past jtofl,
Toiling all at once to heave.
Like a mountain beetling lofty ,
Looms the Future to our view;
But approaching Dufy softly
Points at simple things to do.
Long and weary roads are threaded
Step by step unto the end;
With the present all undreaded,
While w» shrink from what impend -
So with Life: the care and sorrow
Torture by forerunning fear;
Oft the evil of to-morrow,-
Lik the day, is never hcre.-
Advire to Yoon; Ltdin.
A Beautiful IUf^ctiow.—It cannot be
that earth is man s only abiding otoce. it
cannot be that our file is a nubble, cast ujj>
by the ocean of eternity, to ttoat a moment
on its waves, ana Sink into nothingness.
Else why is it that tbe high and glorious as
pirauons, wuich leap, Hite angels, lrom the
temple of our heart, and forever wandering
about unsatisfied r Way is it that uie ra.n-
bow and tne cloud come over us with a beau
ty that is not ol eartu, -and then pjissoff and
leave us to muse upon their lsuied loveli
ness r Why is it that tbe stars bold tfieir
festival arouad the midnight throne, and
set above the grasp of our limited faculties,
forever mocking us with their unapproacha
ble giory. And, (many, wuy m n that
brignt forms ol human beauty are preaenveu
to our view, and men are taken Horn ua—
leav.ng hue tiiousauu streams ol our alfec
tion to h-jw back .n Aipme torrems upon our
hearts.- V» e are born tor a higher destiny
turn that 01 eartu. iuel'c iS a rtti* WheFe
tae ra.buiw never laaes—where the stars
Will oe ap.-emi out uelorc us like .siunos lam;
slumber oh tz-c oc-un, ana where me bcau-
tilui beings wuich here pass before us i*ke
shadows, wifi stay in our presence forever.
jpJF- A wag says he knows but one thing
better *■•■•>!« lose,- aad that is, to be thrown
into a pond of musu and unlit, with the priv
ilege of eating your way ashore
the gate behind yon ; take »y advice and be
effort of thin plane while yon unsafe.
Don’t let the dvetor get Us ayna upon yon.
Hadaakaiwto anas pnrpoae; but,-.arena
as yen are a living mam, he will half drown
fow-’
The following qrtstiere wufiiatpro-
yoBHftod oy an anonyreort deeteh
many years ago, mu to oar knowledge, kas
never been answered :
•Da body meet a body waring through
tne rye—
Da body kiss a body need a body eryr
do tor aa we are informed in such matters,
/eayetbe Lowell Vox Pognii,) we do art
In to express onr opiamn that, ua *
ton cucHMtoaeas, there to art (ha slights*
occasion for tcare.
When the spirit moves you to amltse yohf-
self with •shopping,’ be sure to ask the clerk
for a thousand and one articles you have no
intention of buying. Never mind about the
trouble you make him; that is part of the
trade. Pull the fingers of the gloves you are
examining, quite out of shape; inquire for
some nondescript color of some scarce num
ber, and when it is found, <think you wont
take any thi* morning;' then keep him an
hour hunting for your sunshade, which you
at length recollect you • left at homef an4
depart Without having invested a single cent.
When.you enter a crowded lecture room,
and a gentleman rises politely, (Americas
gentlemen always do,) and offers to give up
his seat,, (that he came an hour ago to so*
cure for himself,)'take it a» a matter of
eouree and don't trouble yonrself to thank
him even with a nod of your head. As t0‘
feeling uneasy about accepting it, that's
rUliculout! because if he don't fancy stand*
ing during the service, he's at liberty to go*
home; it's a free country.
Should you receive an invitation to a con
cert, manage to accept it, (conditionally,)
leaving a door of escape, should a more eli
gible offer present itself.
When solicited to sing at a party, decline,
until you have drawn around you the proper
number of entreating swains; then yieldf
gracefully, as if it were at a great sacrifice
of your timidity!
Flirt with an admir?r till the last end of
the chapter, and then—• be so taken by sur
prise’ when he makes the declaration you
were driving at! As « practice makes per
fect,” every successive attempt of this na
ture will render you more expert in angling
for hearts, besides exerting a beneficial ef-*
feet upon your character.
As to cultivating your mind, that’s all
waste powder—you’ve bettor ammunition to
attack the enemy; and as to cultivating
your heart, there's no use in talking about
a thing that's unfashionable! So always
bear in mind that all a pretty woman is sent
into the world for is to display the fashions
as they come out; waltz, flirt, dance, sing
and play the old Harry generally l
Moose Colored.
Dry goods stores are sometimes the i
of ludicrous conversations. The- Other day
a young lady stepped into a well known es
tablishment in town, and enquired at a
handsome Clerk,
••Slriiave you any mouse-colored ladies
gloves?”
« Mouse-colored ladies, miss ?
« Yes—a sort of gray—just the color of
your drawers there;” meaning the store
drawers, which were painted gray.
<< My drawers, miss!” ejaculated the
young man, glancing downward at his dress
to see if everything was right and tight}
>• My drawers, miss ? why I don’t wear
any /”
The yonng lady was carried homo on k
shutter.
The following anecdote, illustrative
of railroad facility, is- very pointed. A
traveller inquired of a negro the distant* tor
a certain point. »«Dot ponds on eircum-
stance,” replied the darkey. << If yon gwine
afoot, it'll take yon about a day; if you
gwine in de stage or de homneybaa, yon
make it in half a day; but you git in one of
dese smoke wagons, you be a linos’ dar now V’
jrst- An auctioneer was selling n lot of
land for agricultural purposes :
Gentlemen,” said ho, «-this is the most
delightful land. It \i the eeriest land to
cultivate in Massachusets—it’s an Ugbt-ao
very tight. Mr. Parker here, wiU corrobo
rate my statement—he owns the next pnteh*
and he will tell yon how easy it is worked.”
Tea, gentlemen,” said Mr. Parker, * it
is very easy to work, but it’s n plaguy right
easier to gather the crops!”
J®* A witty lawyer once jocosely aaked
a boarding faunae keeper the following qnee-
