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(The Patria,
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heaves it would have been all the better for Tom
Te was indeed very fond of her, and called his};
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BELLEFONTE Avcust, 1822,
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comrades to observe her flowing mane, her
(finely arched neck, her large full eye, and her!
elegantly tapering limbs, as she ranged through
(ts pasture. But no man keeps cattle merely
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i TOTORQUATU 'Naacy (for so he fondly called her) fora morn
he snows dissolved, new verdure clothes he) o's fz
15 ? plain, . So
he trees ‘again their leafy horns bear,
langhing spring, stern winter yields his reign
ature gay and musicgfills the air.
[for show—Tom in a few days led out his little
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She manifested strong symptoms of
uneasiness at putting on the saddle but Tom
bore that patiently ; ¢ for,” says he, ¢I shall
soon break her to it.” Nancy sald nothing but]
et 1)
Charged is the angry torrent’s roar
To murmurs on the pebbled shore,
And frolic nymphs, and youths are seen
In circling maze to tread the green.
she did a great deal: for no sooner had Tom
made his seat good in the saddle, and with his]
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usual gallantry began to make a gentle use of
he varying year and Time's increasing flight, the whip and spur, than she pat herself in the
Proclaim that sad mottality is ours;
How soup shall spring give way to Summer
bright iH 4 abe :
Buick follows Autumn, and now winter lowers. of actitudes. She directly changed her posture
lattitude of a lion rampant. Never did a jade,
{unbroken to the harness display such a variety
v
? Ww ; by throwing up her heels a posteriori, then en:
| The waping moon renews her light, 5 )
Bot man sinks in an endless night ;
“The rich, the wise, the brave and just
IF Laud in the tomb are nought but dust.
deavored to crush his legs against the fence—
pered sideways with almost incredible veloci
ihre most charming vivacity ; and finding that
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sicked, pranced, leered, and curveted with
So frail our lot perchance the gods deny
Co us again again to run the mornings’ ray ;
Beize then the winged moments as they fly
cgardless of to-morrow, live to-day.
all was tono purpose, (for to do Tom justice,
jhe kept his seat to admiration,) she fairly laid
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Soon for a thankleas heir shall shine, (down to it at last, and rolled him off in the dirt.
ald <
Your golden cups and sparkling wine,
Hoard not for him your glittering treasure,
But give it to your friends and pleasure.
Tom sgemfound that he had a vicious jade,
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tand that nothing could be done with her by
harsh measures and though he afierwards found
Though you, Torquatus, boast a noble race
And eloquence that sways the willing soul, | 3
hovgh every virtuc in your breast has place, was dear riding. Madame Nancy could not stir
R clentless death disdains their weak control.
micans to render her more manageable; yet it
a step from the stable, unless she had a finc
"The impious and the good alike bis preys (new saddle every month, and when she was in
He hurries fram the cheerful day,
Nor bave the gods the power to save
Their favorites from the gloomy yrave
HorACE.
the pasture, the devil himself could not get nea:
ther without a new bridle in his hand.
The last I heard of Tom and bis filly, was
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Prom the Liverfiool Advertiser.
THE LILLY Of THE VALLEY.
Fair mibdest flower that shuns parade,
Whose sweets all other sweets excel
Of have I sought thee in the shade,
And watch’d thy slowly opzning bell.
that he was reduced to great disiress on ac
count of the difficalties he met with in procur-
ing for his favorite, her monthly paraphernalia,
and that she had manifested strong indication®
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ot a disposition to jump into a neighbor’s pas-
ie ' ture.
In life’s fair morn, when I was young;
And sigh’d like others to be gay—
Paic flower ! I placed thee near my breast,
And threw the blushing rose away.
Ned Megrims, lately a near neighbor of mines
was the poorest hand at catching a horse thal
1 ever knew. He would cautiously place him
Yet ’twas not hatred that did guide
My infant choice, and move my scorn;
Methought the rose was swoln with pride,
And thou neglected and forlorn,
self in the corner of a pasture, with his bridle,
and there sit the livelong day, waiting the cas
ual approach of bis favorite animal. He wait
May pity ever thus prevail, ed long 1 vain ; but caprice, or good fortune,
And softly ail my soul incline,
To listen to the plaintive tale,
And make the cause of sorrow mine.
which sometimes smiles on the timid as well as
the brave, at last brought her near him. She
was, to be sure, no great scratch, as we say in
And when T see misfortune sink
Neath crue} pride’s sarcastic rail,
I'l} raise its drooping head, and think
On thee sweet lilly of the vale.
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The Pedlar.
I am a jolly gay pedlar,
Come here to sell my ware—
In all things I’m a meddler,
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It is related of Socrates, that when
the country, but good enough, if not too goods
for Ned. Ned rose from his humble posture
—circumambulated the object of his attention
several times, coming nearer at every round, and
at last recoiling at his own presumption, ventur
ed to slip the bridle over her head. But wheth-
er it was from Ned’s patural avkwardness, (for
he attempted to get up the wrong side) or from
he was|., e sudden whim or dislike on the other part,
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asked, ¢ how so good and peaceable a man as it was not long before he was flat on his back, a
he was could live with such a scold as bis wif {fair mark for numerous kicks which were ap:
Xantippe,” he gave for answer ¢ that men wish. {parently bestowed, though by no means recciv-
ed themselves to maintain a firm seat in the Ned at ast made a
shift to clear himself, ran home, and has since
ed with a very good will.
saddle, they first chose for their riding the most
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fiery and hightempered horse.” Now, I confessipecame rather notorious for an indiscriminate
that it may not be thought precisely within the
hatred of every description of horses, good, bad
limits of propriety to make use of this compari
and indifferent, and a contempt will'equal jack
son namely, of that of a female to a dumb ani [of discrimination for those who ride them.
mal ; yet as I bave such excellent authority 1 ;
will venture to attempt it;and he that reads let
him understand.
Bob. L. another neighbor of mine bore in
bis youtliful days the reputation of a sad fellow
among other peojle’s” horses. Some thought
In his twenty-third year Tom W. unwilling |
to be thought wiser than his father before him
concluded that it was high time to think of
he was possessed of some spell or charm—but
at any rate he had a tickling, persuasive way
best kind of cattle, although often much impos-
¢d upon and neglected by those who are un
tion was only temporal,
tore his evil propensities returned in all their
original vigor.
his neighbors’ horses.
lone when its owner was absent, he would im-
mediately throw the bridle over its head and
gallop off some bye way, or into the woods like 2
mad fellow, Nay he has been often known to
get into the stables at night through the win-
dows, and such was his penchant for amusing
graceful employment indeed for a nian who had
to be sure wasnot far from the truth, that many
judge correctly of the age of a horse ; all the
striking marks of his mouth have disappeared,
After which period, recourse must be had to
the general aspect of the mouth. If the tusk
be flat and pointed, and have two small grooves
nindful of their value. It was so in this case.
Bob soon made it evident that his reforma-
It was not long be- h
on the inside, which you can readily feel with
your finger, be assured he is not old, probably
not yet ten; but if you find only one groov,
within the tusk, you may conciude'that he is ap-
proaching twelve,
He was ever hankering after
If he by chance fonund
After twelve, grooves generally disappear and
tusks become as blunt and as round within as
without, Thelength of the teeth is by no means
a cergain criterion to judge of the age though
. ky . A rojecting forwar ‘tal inci-
himscif with the property of others, used to tong teeth projecting forward, certainly indi
s who cou'd not|cates an advanced age, as the teeth of young
whip and spur the poor creature
This was a dis. [horses are not so long, and generally meet al-
most perpendicular.
stir a step fiom the manger.
provided so well for himself at home, but Bob Ihelips of a young horse are very firm and
unreasonably justified himself by asserting wha elastic, while those of an old one are soft flabby
and hanging, and the toneue often so large that
the cavity of the mouth is scarcely capable of
containing it.
sf his neighbors, of better standing in society
than himself were addicted to this practice.—
Although the poor animals were very patient The holes in the centre of the teeth some-
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under this injurious treatment, and although times continue to an advanced age, but when
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some of them even gave an inviting whicker the tusks become round and blunt, the fore teeth
when they heard Bob at the window, yet still long and projecting forward, the tongue large
this ungentleranly recreation was not without and flabby, the horse is most certainly old, say
its attendant evils, He sometimes got a bite Iniftom twelve to twenty, or upwards, notwithstands
‘he breech, sometimes a full kick extemfiore in{IDg any apparent marks to the contiary,
the stomach and now and then a jam, and that! Having noticed ail the marks which serve to
not the most gentle, against the side of thejlostructusas to tne age of horses, it is belie
stall.
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neglectedat home—was badly fed, wretchedly MY by paying attentics to the foregoing ditcca
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His own horse; in the mean time, toiled [¢d that a person of the most common capaci,
: . Wag vi AO scertain the ace of a horse with sida
accourtered=~and faithful affectionate and in- Ds ascertain the age of a horse with a consid
ya erable degree of cerainty, at least unt :
Justrious to the last; died a victim to the cruel gree of ceriainty, at least until he is
too far advanced 10 be of much valaes
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Although we have nciciofore published the
lollowing sirople; but pretty Lunes, we are inducs
and unmanly treatment which she received
from a hard hearted and ungrateful master.
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The Horse
How lo tell a Horse's age by the teeth.
cd Ly particular request to again insert ther,
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It was summer and a sabbath eve,
The following article is copied from a valua.| And buimy was the air,
I saw a sight which made me grieve,
And yet the sight was fair
Within a coffin Jay
f wo hicless babes as sweet as Mav,
ble work, completed, and lately published by
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Mr. J. Forster, of Winchester, Va. under the
title of “Domestic animals Friend, or the com
plete Virginia and Maryland Farrier. Like waxen dolls, that infants dress,
‘I heh little bodies were,
A look of placid happiness,
Did on each check appear,
Aud an the coflin short and wide,
They lay ogether side by side.
¢ A horse that has arrived at an age fit for
service, ought to have forty teeth, twenty-four
grinders, twelve fore teeth, and four tusks —
mares, however, have but thirty-six, except
when they happen to have tusks, which is ‘by no
means common,
A rose bud, nearly clos’d, 1 lound,
Each litte hand within,
And many a pink was strew’d around 4
With sprigs ol Jessamine ;
Aad yal jug tlow:rs that round them lay
Were not 10 me so fair as they,
It is by the fore teeth and tusks that the age
of a horse is to be judged of, and as they are
aot generally put to service until they come
Their mather asa lilly pale,
three years old (and indeed that is one year too
Sat by them on a bed,
Aud bending o€’r them told her tale,
Aud many a tear she shed;
Yeu oft, she ery’d amidst her pain,
My babes and 1shall meet again.
Gb, aT 3
enn 03 NE O——
Adphonsus, Kivg of
soon) we shall commence our description of the
ieeth at that age.
At three, therefore, he will have four horse
& eight colt teeth, which are called pincers, Napics, iad tn bi
iNGpics, rad tin bis court &
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ave a deep black hole in the middle; while fool who uscd to write downin a hook all the
those of the colt are round solid and white. folli¢s of tie great men in his, time. 1) |
A short time before the horse comes four 1 fi ir x iat ve
! at court. The king having a Moor in his houses
yeags old, bie loses four middle teeth, two above hold he sent him to Levant to buy horses with
and two below, which are followed by four more lien thousand ducats; this the fool marked in
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horse teeth with black holes in the middle, the {his Look as a ure piece of folly. Some time
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same as the pincers. : 1nd f
p a‘ter the king calicd for the bork, and found at
A few months before he comes five, he shed
Lo
; liast his own name with the story of the ten
the four corner teeth, two abuve t
ict bis Ha in and two below, i jousand ducats. The king being somewhat
'h 1s last colt’s teeth: an , A :
; and at five they! moved asked the rea
son why his name was
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there ? Because, says the Jester, you have come
jp" od a piece of folly,
tone
generally three or four months belore the |
i P*ihe does come again, says the king, and brings
are replaced with horse teeth hollow as before |
described, and grooved on the inside. At this
to give your money to
age he also gets four tusks, the two lower ones : ? :
you are never Jikely to see again. But if
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Some borses, however, never have upper,
tusks, but this is not
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me the horses, what is that folly to me ? why if
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he does come again, replics the fool, I'll blot
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common. The appear-{OUL your name and put in his.
with him. . He would steal into his neighbors’
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ruoning a few heats on the matrimonial course
Tom was something of a jockey, and had a ver,
He had occa
sionally hired a creature for a little jaunt or sos
nclosures by night and day, coax away the lit
unbroken, unshod fillies, and ater running them |
pretty judgment in horseflesh. ‘0 their utmost speed and distance “he would
'cave them to find their way home again : lam-
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aud had been uncommonly fortunate in hisjed,and perhaps ruined for life. Alarmed at|
choice ; and as good fortune makes men bold length at the rapid depreciation of his character, |
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land sometimes rash, he now thought of purchas {and the frequent demands on his purse, made
g a neat, clean-limbed, sound, frisky, clever
eptile filly for his own particular use. Ton
by those who had the care of his unhappy vic- |
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tims, be concluded to reform for a while at least,
made his purchase. He waselated with hisjand purchased outright, a serviceable, substar.
bargain, for it was a young frolicksome coil
whose back had never been crossed by morta
tial creature who though by no means roriatih.
ble for her shining qualities, was equally good |
in the saddle and the gears, good tempered, and |
phen, right and tight, sound wind and limb—
ones are generally filled up smooth though a! Talk toyounr cusiome;
black spot in the centre may yet appear. Be.
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An English modern trave iler, thus describes
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at ludicrous morning scene,” at Madras:
¢ Here a barter, uncalled for, was shaving a
‘man as he sull Jay dozing ; \
h are cracking t!
full grown, pointed, and a Hitle concave on the
inside.
ance of the two lower tusks is the most certain)
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proof that the horse is coming five years old
even if some of his colt’s teeth still remain.
When he is nearly six all hi 4 13) there another wag
y his fore teet ie joints of a man balf dressed, here
{Were two servants, obe pouring water on, the
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other washing Saheh’s hand Fir 50;
At 6 the gr ina a 5 45 hahds. “Juspire of m
grooves on the inside begin efforts to prevent them two well dressed on
» and soon disappear : the black holes We'¢ Wasii0g my feet, and near me was a lad
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in the middle of the teeth also begin to fi Tuy putting on the clothes of a slecny
brother cfficer, asif} z i
cer, ie had been an infa
Dr nt under
to fill mp
but are still very apparent,
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At seven, all the fore teeth except the corner BUSING
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om $ like a man of sense
d no! ike a meuntebank.
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16, cowardiealis himself a war
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cent man ; themiser calls hynselfa frugal
land business, an
tween seven and eight, the corner teeth also
fill and become smooth ; after eighi
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