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tial ambitions little elf!
ofr by thy advent rous self
Fatrly nil! 0 fare betide thee;
Not a leading string tit guide thee ;
Not a chair to ereap or crawl by;
..Not a cushioned stool to fall by ;
Fof a finger tip to catch at;
airly idr at length to sea,
NH twelve inches (can ,iobe
Really, truly!) front the Ice
Of mamma's protecting kneel,
Fair and softly—soft and fairly—
Little bark, thou ssirst it rarely,
In thy new-born power and 'pride,
O'er the carpet's levet tide,
Lurching, through, frorn side to side,
Ever and anon, and heeling
Like a tipsy cherub reeling
(If e'en cherub?, saucy gypsy!
tsmile like thee. e'cr get tipsy!)
Even as through pit dancing mote
the sunny air afloat,
Or the merest lireatlielegfrfler thee,
Might suffice to oversee thee.
Helm a-weather ! steady. stelady!
Nay, the danger's past alread !
Thou, with gentle eottr , e, untroubled,
Table-Cape lull well haq doubled,
sofa Point ha.t .hot a-head,
Nair` by Footstno Inland NI - ft 41,
And art steering well and truly
On fur Closet-Harbor duly.
Achor now, or turn in time,
Ere within the-ierried chute
Which the tropic fender hounds,
And with brazen zone surrounds;
Turn thee, wraq lotle vessel,
with further pent% wre-dle;
Turn the to refit a while•
In the sweetly sheiterimp., smile
Of thine own Matenial We—
ic the haven of dear rest
ProiTered by the doatinz breasi ,
And the ever ready knee
Ott a mother true to thee.
As the beat of motheTs be!
Nay ! adven CI-oils little ship!
If thine anchor's still a-trip,
And, instead of port, you choose
such another toilsome cruise,
Whereso'er the whim may lead thee,
thi! my treasure! and God speed, thee!
Hackneyed as, Porch: nce, the,- be
solemn words are these to me, ,
Nor from an irreverent tip
Ireedlessly or highly slip;
Even Hs whose name I take
Thus, ray dear one, fik thy sake,
In this seeming idle strain,
Knows I take it not " In vain,"
'ut as in a parent': prayer
Unto Hie to bless and .pare!
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Trrnm the N. .lonthly Mowitne.l
LNARANTL AND ASNERANCE.
m4-nard; : e.—l hay been drinking hard all night
and will have more tim o prep re me. or they all
beat oitt m y brains with . I will not Cons
to die this day, that'. certain,
Duke.-0. sir, you most; and therefore I beseech
you look forward on the journey you shall go.
Bernardi:ie.—l swear I will not die to-day for
any man's persuasion.--MeasurefurMeasure.l
"It is inconceivable to the Virtuous and praise
worthy part of the wont, who have been born att.!
bred to respectable idleness, what terrible straits
-tire the lot of those scantlahus mines whom For
tune has left to shift .for themselves!" SuAi was
my feeling ejacul Mon when full of penitence ft r
the sin of urgent necessity. I wended my way to
the attorney who had swept together, and for the
most part, picked up the crumbs which fell from
my fitthrr ., table. ile as- a little grizzled, sardo.
nic atrimal ; wit!' f.:mires which were as hard as his
heart,
.and fitted their leather jacket so tightly that
one Would. have thou g ht it had Miami: born wall -
ite7. or that they had bought it second-hand and
were pretty nearly out at the elbows. They were
completely emblematic of their possessor tv.liese
religion it was to make the most of everything, and
awn:lg.-I the rest, of the distresses , 'of his particular
Inends, amon VOloin 1 had the happiness of
star ding very forward. My business required but
lisle explanittion, for I was oppressed by neither
rent-rolls nor title-deeds; and we at down to con
i siler the readies: tneanis of turning an excellent in
come for one year into something decent for a few
mote. !sly adviser, whose small experienced eye
had 1w inkled through alt the slieculations of the
a_;... and at the same time, had taken a very .exact
admeasurement of my capabilities of tinning theM
to advantage, seemed to be of opinion that I was
tit for notlikno. on earth. For one undertaking, I
wanted apyPation; for another I wanted capital.—
" Now," said he, " as the first of these deficidneit s
t riemediable, we must do what we can to sup•
ply the latter. Take my advice:—lnsure your life
for a few thousands, you will have but little premi
urn to pay, for you look as if you wonld live forev
er; and from my knowledge of your rattle-pated
habits, and the various chances against you, I will
Five you a handsome sum for the insurance." Ne
cessity obliged me to acquiesce in the proposal, and
I assured the old cormorout that there was every
likelihood of my t•equitting his liberality by the
moat unremitting perseverance in all the evil hab
its which had procured me his countenance. We
shoek hands in mutual 111-opinion, and he obliging
- ly volunteered to accompany me to an Insurance
Office, where they were supposed to estimate the
duration of a man's life to a quarter of an hour and
odd seconds.
We arrived a little before the business hour, and
were shown into large room, where we found se
veral more speculators wpiting ruefully for the ora
cle to pronounce sentence. In the centrei was a
large table, around which, at equal distances, were
placed certain. little lumps of money, which my
friend told me Were to reward the labors of the In
- quisition, amongst whom the surplus arising from
alskintees would likewise be divided. From the
keenness with whiqh each individual darted upon
his share and ogled that of his absent neighbor,
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surmised that some of my fellow-sufferers would
find the day against them, They would be exam
ined by eyes capable of penetrating every crevice
of their constitutions, by noses which could smell a
rat a mile off, and hunt a guinea,brest high.. How
indeed, could plague or pestilence, gout -or glutto
ny, expect to lurk in its hole undisturbed when sur
rounded by a pack of terriers which seemed hun
gry enough to devour one mother! Whenever.
the door slammed, and they looked for an addition
to their cry, they seemed for all the world as though
they were going to bark ; and if a straggler really
entered and. seized upon his moiety, the ireelligent
look of vexation was precisely like thdt of a dog
who has lost a bone. When ten or a dozen of
these gentlemen had assemble:, the labors of the
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day commenced. •
Most of our adventurers for raising supplies upon
their natural lives, were afflicted with a natural con
ceit that they were by no .means cirbumscribed iu
foundation fur such a project. In vain did the board
endeavor to persuade them that they were half
dead already. They fou4ht hard for a few more
years, shore that their fathers had been almost im
mortal,aud that their whole-families had been as
tenacious of lite as eels themseves. Alas! they
were first ordered into an adjoining room., which I
soon learnt was the condemned cell, and then de
licately informed that the establishment could have
nothing to say to them. Some, indeed, had the
good luck to be reprieved- a little longer, but even
these did not effect a very Battering or advantageous
bargain. One old gentleman bad a large premium
to pay for a totter in his knees; another for an ex
traordinary circumference in thb girth; and a dow
ager of high respectability, who was afflicted with
certain undue proportions of width, was Guedonost
exorbitantly. The only customer who met with-I
anything like satisfaction was a gigantic man of
Ireland,twith whom Death, I thought, was likely
to have a puzzling contest.
" How old are you, sir !" inquired an examiner.
‘• Forty."
" You seem a strong man."
" I am the strongest man in Ireland."
" But subject to the gout !"
" No.— The rheumatism.—Nothing else, upon
my sou).”
" What age was your father when he died!"
"Oh, he died young; but then Le was killed in
EOM
" Have you any uncles alive
" No : they were all killed in rows too."
" Pray, sir, do 3ou think of returning to Ire
and !"
" May be I shall, some day or other."
4 , What security can we have that you are not .
killed in a row yourself !"
"Oo never fear ! lam the sweetest temper in
the ts'o Id, barring when I'm dining out, which is
not ohen."
" What, sir, you can drink a little ?"
"Three bottles, with ease."
" Ay, that is bad. Too haves red face and look,
a poplectic. You will, no doubt, go off very sud
denly."
" Devil a bit. My red face was born with me,
and fIl lay a bet I live longer than any two iu.the
room."
" Never you mind that. I don't mean to drink
more than a bottle and a half in future, Besides,
I intend•to get married, if I can, and live snug."
A debate arose amongst the directors respecting
this gentleman's eligibility. The words "row,"
and " dime bottles" ran hurrk ... pc ery, : round the ta
ble. Every dog had a snap at them. At last,
however, the leader of the pack, addressed him in
a demurring glowl, and agreed that, apon his pay.
iug a shale additioral premium fur 4iis irtegulari
tie=. he shouli be admitted as a tit subject.
It was now. my tern -to exhibit ; but, as my friend
was handing me forward, my progress was arrest
ed by the • entrance of a young lady with an elder
ly maidservant. the was dressed in slight mourn
ing; was the most sparkling beauty I had ever seen,
and appeared to produce an instantaneous effect,
even upon the siony-hearted directors themselves.
The chairman politely requested-her to take a seat
at the table. and immediately entered into her bu
woich seemed little more than to show her
self and be e.,titleS to twenty dunisand pounds, fur
which her late husband had ensured his life.
" Zounds," thought I, "twenty thousand pounds
and a widow !"
•I Ah, madam !".observed the ehairman,• " your
husband made to good a bargain with us. I told
him he was an elderly, sickly sort of a man, and
not likely to last : but I never thought he would
have died so soon after his marriage."
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An elderly, bk . ly sort of a man! She uvula
marry again, of course! I was on fire to be exam
ined before her, and let her hear a favorable report
of me. As luck would has it, she had some fur
ther transactions which required certaia_papers to
be sent for, and, in the pause,•l stepped boldly for
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ward.
c• Gentlemen," said my lawyer, with a smile
which whitened the tip of his nme, and very near•
ly sent it dimugh the external te;, , uments, " allow
me to introduce Mr. J n particular friend of
mine who is desirous of insuring his life. You per
ceive he is not of your dying sort."
The directors turned their eyes towards me with
'evident satisfaction, and I had the the vanity to be
lieve that the widow did so too.
"‘ You have a good broad chest," said one. " I
dare say your lungs are never effected."
" Good shoulders too," said another. " Not like-.
ly `to be knocked down in a row."
" Strong in the legs, and not debilitated.by dissi
pation," cried a third. " 1 think this gentleman
will suit us "-
I could precei that during these combliirents
and a few others, th 'ilow was very• much in
dined to titter, which I consialeml as much as a
flirtation commended; and when I was ordered in
to another room to be farthered examined by the
+u peon in attendance, I longed to tell her to stop
ill I came back. The 'professional gentleman did
" REILIIIDLESS Or DENIINCIATION FROM AIM • QVIIITTIO
his utmost to find a flaw in me, but was obliged to
write a certificate, with which I 're entered, and
had the fatis.factiou of hearing the c.liairmait read
that I was 'warranted sound. The Iciard congratu
lated me somewhat jocosely, and the widawiaugh
ed outright. Our atlairs were settled exactly at the
same moment, and 1 followed her. closely down
stairs.
,1 What mad trick aro you at now r' inquired the
cormorant.
" I am going to hand that lady to her carriage,"
iesponded ; and I kept my word. She bowed to
me with much courtesy, laughed again and de,ired
her servant to drive home.
" Where is that, John?" said 1.
" Number —, sir s street," said John; and
away they rent.—
We walked steadily along, thebird of prey leek
oning up the advantage of his bargain with me,
and I in a mood of equally interesting rellic•tion{
" What are you pondering about young gentle
man?" he at last commenced.
" I am pondering whether 'or no yon have not
overreached yourself in this transaction:"
" Flow
" Why, I begin to think I shall be obliged to
give up mrharum•scarum way of life ; drink mod
erately, leave ofi fox hunting, and sell my spirited
horses, which, yon know, will make a material
difference in the probable date of my demise"
" But where is the necessity fur your doing all
this!" •
'• tly wife will, most likely, make it a stipula-
►ion."
" Your wife?"
" Yes. That pretty, disconsolate widow, we
have jyst parted from. You may laugh; but, if
you choose to bet the insurance which you lipre
bought of me against t..e pmehase-money, I will
take you that she makes me a sedate married man
in less than two months "
" Dune ! - .said the cormorant, Lis features again
straining their buck-skins at the idea of hay
ing made a double profit of me. " Lel us go to
horse, and I will draw a deed to that elect,
gratis." _
I did not flinch from the agreement. My case,
I knew. was desperate. I should have hanged
ruyeell a month before had it not been f..r the Ep
som Races, at which I had particular business ; and
any little additional reason for disgust to the world ;
would, I thought, be rather a pleasure than a pain
—provided I was disappointed in.the lovely widow
Modesty is a sod bugbear upon fortune. I have
known many who have not been oppressed by it
remained in the shade, but I have never known
one who emerged with it into prosperity. In my
own case it was by no means a family disease;
nor bail I lived in any way by which I was likely
to contract it. Accordingly, on the following day,
I taught myself very coolly knocking at the wid
ow's door ; and so entirely had 1 been occupied
in considering the various blessings which would
accrue to both of as from our union, that I was
half-way up stairs before 1 began-to think of an ex
cuse fur my intrusion. The drawing-room was
vacant, and I was left for a moment to wonder
whether I was not actually in some temple of the
Loves and Graces. There was not a thing to be
seen which did not bicath with -tenderness. The
ceiling desplayed a little heaven of spoitive Cie
pids, the carpet a wilderness of turtlil-doves. Tho
pictures were a series of the loves of Jmiter, the
vases presented nothing but heart's-ease and love
lies-bleeding ; the very canary birds were inspir
ed, and had a nest with two young ones: and the
cat herself looked kindly over the budding beau
tics of a tartoise-shell kitten. What a place for a
sensitive heart like mine ! I could not bear to look
the mirrors which reflected my broad shoul
ders on every side, like so many giants ; and would
have given the world to appear a little pale and
interesting, although it Might have injured my life
a dozen Years' purchase. Nevertheless, I was
not daunted, and I looked round, for somethit g to
talk about, on the beauty's usual occupations, which
I found were all in a tone with what I had before
remarked. Upon the open piano lay "Auld Rob
in Grey," which had, no doubt, been sung in alio
sion,tu her late husband. On the table was a half
fiaitdied drawing of Apollo, which was, equally
without doubt, ment to apply to her future one
and round about were strewed the seductive tnnes.
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of . llloor, Campbell and Byron, "This witch,''
thought I, "is the very creature I have been sigh
ing after! I would have married her out of a
hedge-way and worked upon the roads to maintain
tier; but with - twenty thousand pounds—ay, and
much. more unless I am mistaken, she would cre
ate a fever in the frosty Caucasus !" I was in the
most melting mood alive, when the door opened,
and in walked the fascinating object of my specu
lation. She was dressed in simple grey, wholly
without ornament, arid her daik brown hair was
braided demurely over a forehead 'which looked
as lofty as her face was lovely. The reception she
gave me was polite and graceful, but somewhat
distant, and I perceived that she had either forgot.
ten, or was determined not to recognize me. I
was not quite prepared for this,. and, in spite of
my constitutional confidence, felt not a lade em
barrassed. I had, perhaps, mistaken the brealt
ings forth of
. a young and buoyant-spirit , ender rid
iculous eircumstances, for the encoura,,oement of
volatile coquetry; and, for a moment, - I was in
doubt whether I should not apologize and pretend
that she was not the lady for whom my visit was
intended. But thes she was so beautiful! Angels
and ministers! Nothing on earth could have lent
me down stains unless I hail been kicked down !
" Madam," I began—but my blood was •In a to
mtit, and I had never been able to recollect pre
cisely what I said. Something it was, however,.
about my late father and her lamented husband,
absence and the East Indies, liver complaints, and
life insurance : with compliments, condolences,
parent', pertubation, and peter-plu-perfect imperfi- .
nenco. The lady looked surprised, broke my
speech with two or three Well bred ejaculations,
and astonished me very much 'by. protesting that
she had never heard her husband diention eith r
my lather or his promi4sg little heir apparent, W 1-
ham Henry Thomas, in the whole course of therir
union.:: tuailam,i'' said 1, " the omission Is
extremely natural ! lam' sore I am not at all otrea
ded with your late liu4iand upon that score. He
was au elderly, sickly sort ul a man. My father
always told him he coitld not last, but he never
thought he would have died so soon alter his mar.
nage. He had not tirne—he had not lime madam
to make his friends hippy by introducing them to
you..,
I believe, rum the yrhole, I must have behaved
remarkably well, for !the widow could not quite
make r.p her mind uhether to credit me or mit,
which, when we consider the very slender mate
rials I had to work uppn, is saying a great deal.
Al last I contrived to make the conversation glide
away to Auld Robin Orey and the drawing of Apub _
which I pronounced to be a ch,f d (Firm " Nl*
mir me however, o svi , est, that the symmetry . Sif
the figure would not be destroyed bj - a little more
of the Hercules in tlite shoulders, which would
niake his lite worth a 'much longer purchase. A
little more amplitude in the chest too, and a trifle
stronger on the legs, as they say at did Insurance
Othee."—The widow looked comically at the rec
ollections which I bronght to her mind ; her roity
lips began to disclose their treasures in a half smile ,
and this, in turn, expanded into a laugh of Euph
rosyne. This was the very thing for me. I was
always rather dashed by beauty on the stilts ;
put us upon fair ground, and I never supposed
that I could be otherwise than charming. I ran
over all the amusing topics of the shay,-expended a
thousand admirable jokes, repeated touching pad's
ages from a new poem which she had not read,
laughed, sentimentalized, cuddled the kitchen, and
!argot to gu away till had 6njou ' rneJ full two houis.
Euphrosyne quite lostsight of my questionable ira
into odcction, and chimed in with a wit as Lailiatit
as her beauty ; nor th‘l she put on a single grave
lock when I volunteeied to call the next day and
read theiremainder Odle poem.
It is impossible to conceive how carefully I
walked home. Aly brad and heart were full of
the willow and the Wager, and my life was more
precious than the Pigott Diamond. I kept my eyes
sedulously upon the Pavement, to be sure that the
coal:notes were closed ; and I never once crossed
the street without looking both ways, to calculrite
the dangers of being ran over. When 1 arrived,,, I
was presented with a lever from my attorney, giving
me the choice of an ensigncy in a regiment which
was ordered to the West Indies, or of goiog mus
sionary to New Zealand. I wrote to him in 4:
saver, that it was perfectly immaterial to me whelh.
er I was cut off by thp yellow fever or devourted
by canabals, but that I had business which wtr4d
pmi ent me from availing myself of either alterii
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afire fur two months„ at least. •
The next morning found me again at the doot of
Euphrosyne, who gate me her lilly hand and re
ceived me - with the senile of an old acquaintan'te.
Affairs went on pretty much the same as they ffid
on the preceding day', The poem was long, her
singing exquisite my' anecdote of New Zealand 1 ir
resistible, and we again forgot ourselves till it was
necessary, iu commen politeness, to ask me to din-.
tier. Here her sober, attire, - which for some morithrt
had been a piece of mere gratuitaus respect, was
exchanged for a low. evening dress, and my soul,
which was brimming before was in an agony) to
find room for my increasing transports. Iler spir
its were sportive as bnterflies, and fluttered elver
the flowers of her imagination with a grace That
was quite miraculouK. She ridiculed the rapidity
of cur acquaintance eulogized my modesty till -it
was well nigh burnt 'to a cinder, an 1 every pow
and then sharpened her wit by a delicate reeur
ence to Appollo and! the shoulders of Hercules-
The third and . the; fourth and the fifth day,
twice as many more, were equally productive of
excuses for calling. rind reasons for. remaining, till
at last I took upon me to call and remain without
troubling myself alyOut the one or the other. I Was
received with progressive cordiality ; and atilast
with a mixture of timidity which assured rue of the
anticipation of a catastrophr whk-h was, at o'ice,
to decide the question with the insurance orice,
and determine the course of my travels. Oneiday
I found the Peri sitting rather pensively at Work,
an 4 as usual, I took my seat opposite to
" I have been thinking, " said she," that I have
been mightily imposed upon."
"By whom?" I i;uquired.
" By oue of whOin you have the highest rtopin
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ion— r -by yourself."
" In what do you mistrust me?"
" Come, now, will it please you to be candid,
and tell me honestlY that all that exceedingly intel
ligible story about your father and the liver corn
plant, and heaven knows what, was a mere fabri-
catkin ?"
,‘ Will it please un to let me thread that needle,
for I *le that you Me taking aim at the wrong end
of it ?"
d * Nousence ! Will you answer me!
" I think I could ! put the finishing touch to that
sprig. Do you nO see ?" I continued, jumping op
and leaning over her. "It should be done so—
and then so. Whitt stitch do you call that ?"
The beauty was' not altogether in a mold for
joking 1 took her hand- 7 -it trembled—and sir did
mine.
" Will you pardon me ?" I whispered. " am
a sinner, a counterfeit, a poor swindling, ditirepu
table vagabond,- 7 -but I love you to my soil."
The work dropped upon her knee.
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In about a fortn ig ht from this time I addliested
the following note to my friend :
DEAR Sia,—lt Will rive you great pl re to
bear that my prospects are mending, and that you
have lost'your wager. As I intend settling the in
surance on my wife, I shall, of course, think you
entitled to the job. Should your trifling lose in
me oblige you to hecomean ensign in the West
Indies or a missionary in New Zealand, yoi may
rely upon my interest there: ' i
[rival the SL Lawrence Republican.]
AUTUMN FLOWAS.
Mc sweet flnwers behold them laden
With the heavy frosts of nty.ht;
13orne are bending. others broken.
And their grecu leoves crusted white
Thns oft have seen the aged
Bending 'Death the hand of care.
When the frosts of time have gathered ".•
On the forehead_ once so fair.
Yesterday, an aged pilgrim
- Passed me on his hoinewaril way,
On his furrowed bmw were written
Tales of trouble and decay.
O'er his staff his form was bending,
And his e7.'es was almo-t cid&
On the wind his white hairs str. amino,
flitter tales of t•orrow told.
Oh, how like the flowers rye chrrishetli
(Flowers fist blossom but to fate.)
Arr the holies that bloom to perish,
And the forms with sorrow weighed!
Devito of an Arab Lady.
For the edification of those who imagine they
can penetrate the design os of women, we have
translated from a French lume on Oriental man.
ners, the following little Story. To understood it,
we have have to intorin our readers that among
the Chientak it it , eubtomary to agree for a time to
pay hi h stipulated forfeit if a husband receives
from
. his or a u ife from a husband, any dam;
Whatever, w•ithont previously pronouncing the
words " Di.uleste." -Each therefine, practices the
;reatest ingenuity to throw the other of hit or her
goat 1
A philosopher of that :iountry, who %vas by no
means insensible to female charms ; had often %vor-
Aimed at their shrine, and as often, as he thought,
had he :uttered from their wiles and caprices.
But he determined to become wiser. lleculleoted
a number of stories of female cunning and copied
them illto a book, which he always carted about
him, as occasion might require to consult it.
Owe evening as he was passing through an Arab
camp ho noticed at the entrance of one of the tents
of a young woman of tnicommon beauty. She
saluted him as he . passthl, °tiering that he might
enter and rest from his fatigue.
Scarcely had ho taken his scat on the carpet and
near the beautiful creature, when be became alarm
ed, he drew his book front his pocket, apd began
to read, without daring to east a single glance at
his fair neighbor. -.
" That must be a charming book,' said the lady,
to engross your whole attention so."
"Indeed it is said the philosopher," "but - it eon-
tains secret."
" Which certainly you would not conceal fmm
me ! said the lady with an irresistible smile.
"Since you will have it so," resorted dig Philos
opher, " it contains a complete list of all -the arts
and wiles of cunning women—but I am sine you
would not learn anything from it, and so it'woultl
not interest yeti:'
" Are you certain that your list is domPlete r
said the lady again.
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Thus the conversation was gradually mmmed,
the philosopher pocketed his book, and so far for
pt himself and his system of philosophy that he
was kneeling before the lady, holding one of her
har•.ds between his own: and who knows what
might have been the result, had not the lady espied
at a distance her husband ; who was returning
home. Struck with terror, she exclaimed, " I see
my husband at a distance. returning houre - rard!
Should he find you here, he will put both of us
to death. I see but one chance for your escape,
conceal yourself in this box, of which I keep the
key."
it may be supposed the philosopher did not hes-
itate to conceal himself mid the lady lucked the
box and drew the key. As the Arab entered his
tent, the lade met him with a smile saying, it you
come in good time—for a stranger, calling himself
a philosopher, stopped at our tent to rest,.but so far
forgot himself and propriety as to talk to me of
lore'
The Arab began to roam at the mouth with raze:
but who can describe the agony of, the philipher
who could in his retreat hear every word that was
spoken !
Where . shall I find the wretch exclaimed
the Arab, " that my sword may put an end forever
to a similar presumption !"
" Here hi this box," said the lady holding out
the key.
The enraged Arab snatched it out of her hand,
but she seen retook it in a fit of laughter. .
" Instantly pay me a forfeit, for I have caught
you at last accepting a thing-without prorrotincing
the word Diadestr. w
For a while the Arab stood as it petrified, and
alter recovering a little from his anger, sand—" I
have lost, and must pay the forfeit, but let me re
quest you hereafter to gain your ends without giv
ing me such bitter vexation."
After a While the Arab had to attend to ether
business, and left his tent, and the lady nrdocted
the box,•in which she touittl the poor philosopher
more dead than alive. On saying, " you aresafe,'
the philosopher vaulted nimbly from his retreat.
" Depart in peace" said *the lady to him, "
do not forget to record this day's occurrence in
our book "
)Mast. Culascr ca.—Tiere is nothing which
adds so much to the beauty and power of man, as
a good moral character. It is his wealth—his in
fluence—his life. It dignifies him in every station
exalts him in every condition, and glorifies him at
every period of life. Such a, character is more to
be desired than everything else on earth. It makes
a man free and independent. No servile tool—
no crouching sycophant—no treacherous honor
seeker ever bore such a character. The pure-joys
of truth and righteousness never in such a person.
If young men but knew bow much a good chorale
ter would dignify and exalt them—how glorious it
would make their prospects even in this life; nev.
ir should we find them yielding to' the groveling
ant' base-born passions of human nature.
A CHAVrER ON Fl3tAt.r.o.—We like tolookuf on
a healby woman -he is a prodigy in the mue
teesult century. WI erever you go yon see scores
real hundreds of sp euy, sickly, feeble girls, who
ran hardly muster ()amp to 'snake their beds,
u ash their faces or hive an intruding cow Gum
the yard. Tell the i about early rising. fresh. air
and healthy exercis , and they have a asiong '
as the moral law, a d about faith away. You e 3-
peet theiretti get ui 'before day—to work in the •
kitchen —to breathe the fresh* air of moraine !
Preposterous and a isnrd. They have never teen
the sumise, and
,wc i'.d hardly know but the :nn -
continues to shine tl rever, if it were not for the al
mania s and their g, rid mothers.
No %vender that el - ery year sweeps to the grave
so many_young WO CO, who have 1 3 een sickly and
elleinina:e, -ever si re they were, born iinti• the .
%road ; and death 1,f,11 continue to.select them as
his simims, till they learn their duty, and. pursue .
that eniuse which is -nres health, strength and long
life. Qor creat- . ,:ta, 1 parents lived to a great age
—and never thong . : of •lying dosiii to die until
t iey had a(.least rel cited the meridian. of life.--
They were smut, sti mg happy and hearty. Why?
They rose early--wi 'eked like beavers, and never
spent th e midnight . ours in (lancing. is
Instead of being 'tightened at a mouse at their -
feet, a beetle on thlii neck, a fly's foot on their
arms, in the absent • of their fathers and husbands,
they would Iced tit. it guns, and shoot bears and
catamounts, and k p at bay a party of savages.
How have these il lighters degenerated? What .
fernale is there now a days who uouldn't inn from
a gun. even if it hit Ino lock ! The ladies of ol
den tirucanu:lived 1 sir husbands years and years.
‘Vidows are few to; • far between. It was no sin
g:liar thing for twirl grandinothers to have Gee or
lour husbands in the course of theirlives. Nitw
it -is the reverse. llen have about as many wives
—diseases of kite I are been 50f.a..1 athong the
female sr - v. • ,
Do you know ,h , f , cause? hit:found in listless .
idleacss—inactiveitm—laie hours—thin h hoes—mtw
lin dresses—a h a rd of the fresh morning air, and
in detestable stnff,lstitched in pink and yellow .
mrkers,, u Lich is , ooding our country. If they
will (It ! nothing el: r 1 - outia ladies will sit and read
from morning till ni!ht, that sickly, setnin ental,ims
• pure and vrc will s: y, licentious. trash that is thrum a
in such abundancd from the press. This shrivels ,
the mind, warps th• affections, clii!ls the better •
teenegs and make., the life :Wretched beyond. de l.
' script:Ma. Let fern ) les look into this subject mut
act like reasoaablel inns, and we should soon see
'a different state of , hings. We should illear of no
•fainting away—no' ickly constitution—no affection
of the lungs—no el tpernents and no suicides.
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INGE:4I:ITV or •. , EAST INDIAN Tour—At a
ime when the de terity of the thieves of:Delhi
vas proverbial, it h ppened one day that a Nawanb
lad alighted at on of the shops in that city, and
1
vas bargaining w it the - shop-keeper for some ar
icle he wanted to urchase. -In order to be IZIXO
It his ease, the N waub hail slipped his right foot
from its shoe, and ad placed the said foobon the
anbootra, or raised floor of the shop, while his del!
foot remained in i shoe on the grot . !mi. A thief
slyly abstracted th empty shoe, and made-off an
detected. The Nu vaub, when he had completed
his purchase, put d _wn his right foot, and then dis
i
overed that the s had disappeared. A search
was made, uselessly of course,-for the lost shoe '
when the Nuwaub! sent one of his attendants to a
shoemaker With the remaing shoe, with
,an tinier
for another to be tepared immediately to match
it. He then got into his palanquin shoeless, and
went his way. The tide', Watehing, his opportuni
ty. straight to the iheemaket, and assuming a tone
of authority, told I im that his master, the Nutvaub,
having found the missing !shoe, had sent him to •
countermand the order he had given—and would
therefore thank limi•to . - return the shpe left at his
shop." The unsippecting shoemaker, taking the ,
thief-he one of I e attendants of the great- man,'
quietly gave him ;up the shoe, and thus the thief
possessed himself of the pair, with which he safe
ly decamped, and was never more heard of.
A Novel. Pie.. e.—Don Juan De Castro, fourtW
Portuguese Vice .y-of the Indies, after having
sus . ained the me orable siege of Disa against the .
arms of the lii' of Cambaya, and triumphed
over forces whieli appeared irresistible, resolved to .
rebuild that fort; H , from its foundations, in order •
to prepare hirnsel for another siege. Unfortunate.
ly the royal fiiia es . were -exhausted; there were
no precious amid s nor any - means of paying the
laborers and sohli- rs employed. The Portuguese
merchants at Goa having been frequently deceived
by the promises! formerly made, were no longer
. willing to give c edit to De Castro. Ills son, Fer
dinand, had bee killed during the siege. -He was
desirous of dish ~ • ring his bones to send them as
a pledge to the 1 erchants of Goa, that he would
perform his. etr e , ! ements with them, for the money
which he wish =tl them to advance. But they
were no longer t I be found.; the fiery climate.hae.
ing already redu,ed them. to thist.- Hethen cut oil
one of his musta htos. which he sent eta - gage of
honor that he we Id fulfil the conditions. "I have
no pledge which I can now call mine,'? , he they
addressed them-, " except my own beanl, whinfiT
now send you b Rodriguez. de Azevedo,: kyou
must be aware at Ino longer posseasgold, silrer
or effects ; nor . , thing-else of any;value, to obtain
your conthlenc , except eshertand dry sincerity,
which, the Lord • 4y God . has given me." Upon
Is - glorions _ .• , Juan de Castro in fact °tainted --
the moacy of Bich he was in want : and hip
mustachio after and redeemed by his family hoax
1
the hands of .If. creditors, is still preserved as a
11 moment of his %laity and devotion to the interests,
of his country. I . . .
If your child! •n' !levee cough, be sure to take
them to some ' . melt on I...7unility, Where the veal
gess will bring .ut - the full strength of. their - limp.
-: A constant bar ng may keep awake sofa* of the
sleepy sinners. - . - . •
Snriar.lll3 EGG