- 1 .' : : If , . . . " ." 'J"': .', tM 'a6.6 D, SM if+.M q P. 'Y' .,.'......,.. ...r fi .a .." ', "x v n r "' a' .e1 -, ., '" ,- ,- -.,. .-, ." .- K '; .,V E---S'1 I N Q, U-I nrE H. -:- . ' ,. . - ' I I black und begrimmcd as an Imp But the scene was changed, and I rather visage as saw :a off chagrined --41-T" sneaked --:: ... :: ;' .J-:: I poor i fellow 111SC1i.hANEOiJS. of of darkness. man whom the worfd called honorable: and I I, and disheartened, but ill the course a .- -- ----- Saffice'it to his visits were never : waited for his smiles. They pointedout ---- --- --- few days his love had increased to so insupportable say, many ., THE DISCARDED LOVER. a degree that he determined repeated. the fields that were his, and talked of the silver and that he had gold the of ills \vliich renewing the siege. His return almost gathered Among variety: to wo- upon BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT."I .they admired the stateliness of his domes for all her , heir droveher to despair man man i H to, none perhaps arc more vexatious , than the unwelcome. attentions of a ifestations of dislike: only seemed to make HAVE SEEN AX END OF ALL PERFECTON." and extolled the honor of his family. And disagreeable suitor. A woman situated. him the more assiduous in his devoirs; like I have seen a man in the glory of his i his heart answered secretly" ," By my wisdom somewhat peculiarly in this respect, she is die spaniel, the more you beat him,the more das and the pride of his strength. lie have I gotten all this; so he returned no God neither did he fear obliged to receive the visits of the men ho fawns upon you. A stratagem entered was built like the tall cedar that lifts its head thanks to or sene however unpleasing to her, and compelledin her head onn day which she thought would above the forest trees; like the strong oak him. And as I passed along I heard the a measure to treat them with civility, if i have the desired effect, and she resolved the that strikes its root deeply into the earth. I complaints of the labourers who had reaped down the fields and the cries of the ; not with respect; for if her 'demeanour to- : very first opportunity to put it into execu- He feared no danger-he felt no sickness. : poor wards them be reserved and disdainful, it tion. It was to be sure not a very agreeable His mind was vigorous like his body ; he I whose covering; he had taken away ; but the is published to ,the world, and her reputa- thing, but desperate diseases require was perplexed at no intricacy, he was daunted sound of feasting and re'clryVas heard in his and the unfed tion for good nature becomes somewhat dis- desperate remedies. at no difficulty; into hidden things he I apartments, beggar came paraged. She is consequently obliged to Not long after, our hero having arrayed searched, and what was crooked he made tottering from his door. But he considered I himself in his "best her visit when the II not that the cries ot the depressed were be complaisant 1o those whom perhaps she paid a plain. lie went forth fearlessly upon most heartily and supremely despises, and (to his perfect astonishment!) she greeted I face of the mighty deep; he surveyed the continually: entering into the ears of the I f finds it a difficult matter to rid herself of him with one of the most bewitching smiles: nations of the earth; he measured the dis- most High. And when I knew that this such admirers. The men on the contrary that ever captivated the heart of a love sick tance of the stars, and called them by their man was once the teachable child that I had " :arc exempt from this evil, for they can visit swain. She talked and she laughed, she, names; he gloried in the extent of his Im'cd-the beautiful infant that I had gazed - such only as arc agreeable to them. The giggled and smiled, and was so remarkably knowledge, in the vigor of his understanding upon with delight I said in my bitter sequel ol the following story, the truth of cheerful and agreeable that Zebedce could and strove to search even into what the ness," I have seen an end of all perfection1 which is well authenticated, furnishes a scarcely contain himself for delight. Em- Almighty had concealed. And when 1 and 1 laid my mouth in the dust. happy expedient getting rid of such boldened by her familiarity, he took hold ef looked on him 1 said, "What a piece of THE CHURCH- YARD. suitors as arc alluded to. In a certain her fair hand, and instead of meeting with w rJig man how noble in reason: how i.eighborhood lived a young damsel, the a repulse, she returned the squeeze with infinite in faculties! in form and movinghow You have sauntered, perhaps, of n moon only child of a wealthy but plain farmer; twofold ardour. "Having," as a certain express and admirable! in action how light evening, out of the precincts of the our heroine, was a fine bouncing bloominggirl writer says, thus established a lodgement I like an angel in apprehension how like a living, moving world, to linger' and con- but rather more inclined to "en bon upon the hand, he soon set out upon hi'? god template among the grass-grown memorials ,, point" than the fashions of the times sanctioned travels and made the grand tour of her waist" I returned-his look was no more lofty of those who are gone- -but Peggy was a girl of too much -and, finally, to such a pitch of presump- nor his step proud; his broken frame was "The body to its place, good sense to repine at her unfashionable tion was he raised by her passive obedienceand like some ruined tower; his hairs were And the soul to heaven's grace, rotundity of person: and unlike some dam- nonresistance, that he drew her (appa- whitE: and scattered; and his eyes gazed And the rest is God's alone. ; sels of similar appearance, disdained to rently) nothing loth," upon his lap. His vacantly upon what was passing around An appalling chill shoots through the resort to such expedients as are frequently happiness was now complete, for he held him. The vigor of his intellect was wasted current of life, at the undisturbed and uni , adopted by the fair sex to bring about\ a diminution all that he esteemed most precious upon and of all that he gained by study nothing versal silence of the scene-the stars tranquilly i of their persons, such as smelling earth within his grasp, and he inwardly remained. He feared when there shining on the white marble, and I at vinbgSr cruits, eating pickled cucumber: ;* congratulated himself, that he had now was no danger, and when there was no sorrow freely illuminating the name, which friend- I and the like. Although damsel could totally surmounted all her prejudices against he wept. His memory was decayed and ship had carved for the slumberer beneath; not boast ot.much of that quality: which. hit, that. there was a time when a lady ,treacherous, and showed him only broken here the grass waving in rank luxuriance, by the fashionable world is denominated could be effectually courted, and that he images of the glory that was departed.lis .- as if to hide the triumphs and trophies of t refinement, yet she pos essod a certain pop t had eventually found that favorite era. lIe' house was to him like a strange land, death, and there a human bone unearthed tion of shrewdness and acuteness which enjoyed in tirospect all her vast domains a.d his friends were counted as enemies;; from its time-worn sepulchre, a ghastly added no inconsiderable eclat to her character and rolled his ryes around the room with a and he thought himself strong and healthful -, visitor to the realms of day; a wooden tablet - among the neighboring; swains: ns may secret satisfaction upon its well filled fur- while his foot tottered on the verge ol ., marking the repose of'the. humble: across very naturally be expected, she was: surrounded -' I niture.: '(These ideal joys prevailed\ for some the grave. Ho said of his on-ho is my the sign of the believer, and lofty and by aes- I II chairs which are found in the dwellings all end of all earthly perfection." which the dead do not teach us. Would tilcnt little fellow, whose vocation was tint I our yeomanry, whoso- eat had yielded to I hive seen a beautiful female treading beauty be modest and unpretending, let her of itinerant tailor, going from one farmhouse the frequent made it untilit the first of and pressures upon stages youth, entering joyfully quit the hall and the festival for a moment, " to another, with his goose and lap somewhat rt'Sembleduoupcli h, he fount into the pleasures of I I'fe. The glance and carry her toilet to the tomb. Would .1 board, transforming tho old garments of I he that the edge of the chair by the reason of of her eye was variable and sweet, and on the proud learn humility; the pcnnrious k' psrents into new ones for tho children, &c. her weight pressed upon the lower part of her cheek trembled something like the first I, charity; the frivolous seriousness; the big His name was Zebedee,Stich. Our knight his legs in such a manner as to cause a total blush of the morning; her lips moved, and oted philanthropy; would the scholar as "" of the thimble, as many other knights be stagnation of blood, and created such a there was harmony; when she floated in the certain the true objects of knowledge; the occupation, pricking sensation as he never remembered dance, her light form like the aspen seemedto man of the world the true means of happiness { to have felt l before, to use a common expression move with every breeze. I returned here and hereafter; and the ambitiousthe ameliorating it, cast his eyes upon tho fine his legs were asleep; not so his but she was not in the dance; I sought her true sources of greatness; let him retire round person of our heroine. If I can feelings, for never were they so awake to in the gay circle of her companions, but I awhile from the living and comnune with '" ,only get her," says he to himself, "and that the painful sensations which prevailed inhis 'found her not Her eyes sparkled not there! the dead. We must all come to the mourn- , fine farm of hers, I'll convert my gHOSt ink nether limbs-had he been sitting upon -the music of her voice was silent-she fill and silent! grave. Our bones must rnin- a ploughshare, and my shears into pruning his own needle case the pain could not have rejoiced on earth ne more. 1 saw a train ge! in one common mass Our affections '.. .! hook; and why not?" says he, many a been more sensible than that which he then sable and slow paced, who bore sadly to should travel in the same path, for theymust man inferior to me,has gained the affections 'oalized. To have asked her o arise would an open grave what once was animated and terminate in one fearful issue. Lifeis of as likely a girl ns she-she'is but a wo- have been a most dangerous, as well as insulting beautiful. They paused as they approached full of facilities of virtue and of happiness man, therefore to be wooed.: Pussesset: request; inasmuch as her being, and voice broke the awful silence:- ; and when you would abuse them, go with the idea: that his goose waxed old, and seated there was the very height of condescension .' Mingle ashes with ashes, and dust to its purify your affections, and humble your his thimhlo'rusty, all his thoughts and purposes : Such an entreaty might therefore original dust. To the earth whence she pride, and leave your hopes at the tomb ofa , ( were ,bent to the attainment of his be resented by her in such a signal was first taken, consign we the body of our friend, when the stars ,are shining upon it \ .designs. Her dislike to him was unconquerable manner as to exclude all future hopes; he sister." They covered her with the dampsoil like tho glorious beams of religion on the :, and various were the means mad was therefore obliged to grin and bear It and the solid clods of the valley: and mansion of death.A . .,1 'use,of by her to get rid of Ins importunities, with a$ much stoicism as possible./ The the worms crowded into her silent abode. but they proved unavailing, for he was totally anguish he endured caused the sweat to Yet one sad mourner lingered, to cast him wag was passing a livery stable one insensible to hints however plain and pour down his face in torrents, she all the self upon the grave, and as he wept he said, day, in front of which several lean horses !t .F .1. palpable; she would pin the dish cloth to while by her pleasantries! ; forcing him to I There is no beauty, or grace, or were tied, stopped suddenly, and gazed at his tail, set tubs of dirty water in his way, smile through all.his agonies to her infinite ness that continueth in man: for this IOVCIi'j'I'them for some time with a phiz indicatingthe and cause him to tumble into them, but lie amusement and delight. Never was pain. end of all glory and perfection." utmost astonishment, and then address- would always rise with the must impertura and pleasure\ so happily and ludicrously! I have seen an infant with a fair brow,!led. the owner who was standing near, and :bio( serenity, laugh it off as a good joke, Mended; inwardly groaning with pain from and a frame like polished ivory. Its limbs asked," if he made horses,"" make horses?' and consider it rather as an evidence of her his "durance vile," yet rejoiced at having were pliant in its sports it rejoiced, and said the knight of the broom and currycomb affection than her hatred. Among the many overcome her former aversion. To put the again it wept,but whether its glowing cheek ," no! why do you ask such a question - unsuccessful efforts to shake him oil cap-stone to his bliss she snuffed out the dimpled with smiles, or its blue eye was : P "Only," replied he, because I ob- mani-fested candle, (accidentally ofcourse,) and smear' brilliant with tears, still I said to my heart, serve you ha0 several frames set up!" a longing for some parched corn,and ing the snuff over her hand fell straightway It is beautiful: It was like the tirst pure hid to gratify her in her desires, offered to to patting his cheeks and stroking his eye blossom\ which some cherished plant has A whimsical comparison being made be- go to the crib ami get her some; alter he. -the sweat all the time forming divers brought forth, whose cap i is filled with a tween a clock and a woman, Charles )Fox had started for that purpose,she slipped out fanciful meandering channels down his face dew-drop, and whose head reclines upon a observed that he thought the simile bad- r- after .him, and when blm saw him fairly through the smut, until no resembled Satanon parent stem. I again saw this child when For,' said he, 'a clock serves to point out housed among the corn, closed the door his tour through Chaos. In this situa- the lamp of reason first dawned in its mind. the hours, and a woman to make us forget and made it secure against, his escape, leaving tion she kept him until lie had nearly fain Its soul was gentle and peaceable its them. I poor let lk'C to steep ails t'CIJSIIi in ted outright, when she arose and bid him sparkled with joy as it looked round; eye on I forgetfulness" in the "smoky crib, and good night lie dot| ailed with feelings of this good and pleasant world. It ran swift A SPARE RIB An epicure requestedhis bushed with buzzing night flies loins: slum- rather a mixed and doubtful character, not ly in the ways of knowledge-It bowed its landlord to get him a spare rib. The> \ber. The, next morning lie was discovered knowing whether he were more gratific ear to instruction-it stood like lamb before inkeeper declared that ho had none but a \ by some (If the inmates of the house,, or pained with his visit Arrived at home its teachers. It was not proud, or envious :crooked rib, which he would be glad enough ami."a. hue and cry of a thief in tho corncrib he stepped to the mirror to see what new or stubborn, and it had never heardI to spare. ,. was raised against him, but they were bl'4Ufes his fair Dulcinea had discovers of the vices and vanities of tho world. And - ,,*u sorely puzzled when they discovered that he in his physiognomy! to ha'e"jl18de her so when I looked upon it, 1 remember that our Dr. South began a sermon on the text, imprisoned\ the place that they was m very said a Saviour mistook for the scene of his deprcc.lalJon.Tho mournfully complacent, when. conceive his children Except ye become as little The wages of sin is death, as.follows: joke however soon leakid out, and the utter horror and dismay on beholding I his. hea\'cn.", ye cannot enter the kingdom of I Poor wages indeed, that a man can't )lire by." t -- -