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SHELLING PEAS.
Pink sun-bonnet hanging down
O’er a fair, face half a flown;
Basket tipped upon her knees—
Maiden busy shelling peas.
Looking o’er the garden wall,
Youthful figure straight and tall,
Lounges with a careless grace,
Straw hat pushed off sunny face—
And a pair of lazy eyes
Look with a cool and calm surprise
On the fingdrs plumb and white —
Shelling peas with all their might.
“Such a busy little bee
Puts to shame poor thriftless me I”
And a yawn, half made, half real,
To these words give sign and seal.
Pink sun-bonnet nods assent,
Pingers gives the pods a rent,
As though saying, “Were these you,
I’d soon show you what I’d do!”
“So you think I’d ought be
Quite ashamed of this ‘poor me,’
Whojbewails his lazy lot,
And to better it tries not!”
Pink sun-bonnet gives a nod,
Cracks a fresh new glistening pod,
Which exploding seems to say
Answering for her, boldly, “yea."
Lazy eyes dart a quick look,
Naught but silence will they brook;
Bending closer they peer down
’Neath the bonnet’s clumsy crown.
“I would toil and strive each hour,
Working with a will and power,
Had I aught to work hard so
Some sweet bright reward in store.”
Pink sun-bonnot laughs out now,
And the face is all aglow.
As she answers pointing down
To her basket with a frown—
“ Lots of shell and little peas;
Words are well, and sometimes please;
But words are shell—its fruit we need;
Talk is easy—prove by deed!’’
Quick the lazy eyes flash fire,
And their owner bends down nigher,
Till the color in his cheeks
Fades and flickers as he speaks—
“Ah, but ’tis within the shells
That the perfect fruit first dwells;
All my words, I’ll prove quite true
If my reward may be you!”
Pink sun-bonnet still and dumb;
Busy fingers quite o’ercome
Drop the basket off the knees,
And down roll the half shejled peas.
“See, you work in vain alone —
Without help naught can be done;
May I then through our lives be
Helpmate to your loyalty ?”
Two brown hands clasp fingers white;
Lazy eyes grow clear and bright;
Pink sun-bonnet ’gainst her will,
Looks up with cheeks pinker still.
And again ft gives a nod —
Then a noise. Was it a pod ?
Something soundecL Afi you please,
It all happened-—shelling peas.
Married,-Not Mated,
UOW THE MATRIMONIAL NOOSE IS ADJUSTED
IK ENGLAND.
That aw»'ul and mysterious person
age, the 1 legist rar General, has been
taking the British public into his con
fidence on the score of marrying and
giving in marriage. In th© hard, clear
statistical style of winch he is so emi
nent a master he tells how couples,
more or less are devoted, took upon
themselves the vows of wedlock, what
were their respective ages, and where
and in what years they were married.
Some of the information thus officially
accorded has about it a touch of com
edv, as when, it is affirmed that in 1860
no fewer than eleven octogenarian
British youths took unto themselves
wives, the objects of their choice be
ing with one exception —a dame of SO
—fair damsels ql from 30 to 35 sum
mers. Again, a respectable old gen
tleman of (>o.is written down the hus
band of a girl in her fourteenth year,
while another gushing damsel just out
of her teens is noticed as giving heart
and hand to a semi-patrich seventy
five years of age. Os widows, too,
frequent is the mention and numer
ous the remarriages; while of girls
“not more than sexteen years of age,”
no fewer than three hundred and
twenty-five in one thousand eight hun
dred sixty alone promised to “love,
honor and obey.' A feature of spe
cial interest in these statistics is the
indirect proof which they afford of the
practical good sense |of the English
people. The rise in the price of butch
er’s meat and the enhanced value of
coal had each a depressing effect on
the marriage rate, while the failure of
Overend, Gurney A Co., in 1866, and
the panic which ensued caused a great
diminution in the year’s “matrimoni
alization” —a diminution which was
observable until 1870, when the mar
riage roll recovered its nominal pro
portions. Another fact on which Mr.
Miall would do Well to ponder, is that
out of a total of 182,000 marriages
registered in 1870, no fewer shan 187,-
989 were solemnized according to the
rites of the Church of England.
The Man in the Moon.
From Chambers’ Journal.]
Men have had strange fancies about
earth’s beautiful satellite. They have
worshipped it as a goddess, sung of it as
the birthplace of dreams, honored it as the
abiding-place, of beneficent spirits empow
ered to visit the earth to aid good men
and punish evil-doers. Some have held
the moon to be the first home of humani
ty the Paradise lost by Eve’s transgression
others have believed it to be the place to
which the souls of men ascend after death.
Byron wrote,
Sweet Dian’s crest
Floats through the azure air, an Island of
the blest;
and a modern poetess has avowed her faith
that the wretched find rest in Luna’s ser
ene regions. Many wise men of old be
lieved the moon to- be a world full of life
Pythagoras boldly asserting it had its seas
and rivers, its mountains, plainsand woods,
its plants, far lovelier than the flowers of
earth, its animals fifteen times the size of
those familiar to mundane eyes, ruled over
by men of larger growth and higher Jmen
tal faculties than those of earthly mould.
Leaving philosophers to speculate as to
whether the moon was or was not the home
of creatures more or less akin to human
kind unphilosophical folk agreed that the
moon had one inhabitant at least, one of
their own race, whose form was palpable
to ail who had eyes to see. How he at
t fined his elevated position was in this wise;
While the children of Iserel sojourned in
the wilderness a man was detected gather
ing sticks upon the Sabbath day, whereup
on he v a tak«n without .he camp and stor
ed until he died. Not satisfied with this ex
emplary punishment of the offender by his
fellowwanderers, the vox populi condemn
ed the unhappy Sabbath breaker to a per--
petual purgatory in the moon, wherein he
si seen, bearing his bundle of sticks upon
his back, ever climbing and climbing
without gaining a step; accompanied by
a dog, faithful in worse than death, to a
master, whom an old English song-writer
pictures shivering with cold as the frosty
air bites his back through his thorn-rent
clothes. Shakspeare’s Stephano found
Caliban ready enough to believe he was
the man in the moon, dropped from the
skies to become king of the enchanted Is
land; “I have seen thee in her, and Ido
adore thee; my mistress showed me thee
and thy dog and thy brush.” In Germany
the story runs that; many years ago, an
old man went into the woods to cut sticks
upon a Sunday morning. Having collected
as many as he could carry, he slung the
bundle upon a stick, shouldered it, and
trudged homeward. He had not got far
upon his way when he was stopped by a
handsome gentleman dres-ed in his Sun
day best, who inquired if he was aware that
it was Sunday on ear Ji, when every one
was bound to rest from labor. “Sunday
on earth or Monday in Heaven it is all the
same to me !” was the irreverent reply,
“So be it,” said his questioner; bear, then
your fagot forever’ and, since you do not
value Sunday on earth you shall have an
everlasting Mon-day in heaven, standing
for eternity in the moon ns a warning to
Sabbath-breakers!” As he pronounced
sentence the stranger vanished, and before
the wood-gather could apologize for his
rudeness, he was seized by invisible hands
and borne to the moon, pole, iagot and all.
According to another version, he had the
option of burning in the sun or freezing in
the moon, and chose the latter as the
least of two evils.
Enjoy the Present.
It conduces much to our content if
we pass by those things which happen
ed to our trouble, and consider v.lrit
is pleasing and prosperous, that by
the representation of the better the
worse may be blotted out. If Ibe
overthrown in my suit at law, yet my
house is left me still and my laud; as I
have a virtuous wife or hopeful chil
dren, or kind friends, or good hopes.
If I have lost one child, it may be I
have two or three still left me. Enjoy
the present. wh;,ts. >ev< r it may be, and
be not solicitors for the future; for if
you take your foot from the present
standing, nnd thrust it forward to to
morrow’s event, you are in a restless
condition; it is like refusing to quench
your present thirst by fearing you
v. ill want drink the next day. If to
morrow you should want, your sorrow
would come time enough though you
do not hasten it; let your trouble tar
ry till its own day comes. Enjoy the
blessings of this day, if God sends
them, and the evils of it bear patiently
and’sweetly. for this day is ours. We
are dead to yesterday, and not yet
born to the morrow. —Exchange.
There was a desire on t he part of
the teacher to make a scholar under
stand what conscience is. She said:
“What makes you feel bad when you
have done wrong ?” “My pap,” said
the youth, feelingly
A girl who marries well is said to
make a lucky hit, though she is herself
said to be a lucky miss.
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Rome, Ga., Sept. 12th, 1872.
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