The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-03-26 00:00:00, page 4

bear Colin your land in Kentucky's to clear.
Which wi4 colt you the labour of many a year,
You'll have cows, sheep and horses, ^ heifers to
buy,
And will hardly get fettled Before you must die.
E^U es By the discount you'll farter a loss,
Aid a stone while 'tis rolling can gather no moss.
, HB^ „
'A house and a bard, with a plenty o'iand,
tn Kentucky I'll parch afe,well clea 'J to my hand;
Cows, horses and sheep, there, are not very dear,
And'we'll feaft on good buftaloe half of the year.
Wdile here; &e.
Kentuck,
^at the poor must be humble, or fuffer a loss,
And a stone while 'cis rolling can gather no moss.
HE.
Dear wife let us go with the ca(h we possess,
For wishing will make it no mo-e nor no lets,
You' 1 there be a lady, and who knows but £
May be a rich governour too ere I die;
While here, &c.
SHE. [ceafe,
'Tis time fac'd high thoughts of preferment (hould
For you'd n'ever be more than a fofticeof Peace ;
So leave off' eeding your castles in air,
And let us conclude we fhali never go there^
For the poor, l^c.
HE.
Dear wife your objections are not without weighty
But (till I niuft go; for 1 long to be great ;
In less than a year in your coach you (hall ride,
Wh ; le the chariot of date your dearCb/izlhall guide,
Tie here, &c.
S~E.
Ci ! Colin, remember that land of delight,
Isinfefted with ndiau, $ who murder'by nighgt;
Your house may be plunder'd and burnt to the
ground, [around;
While your wife and your children lie mangled
Stay here or you'll certainly fuff r a loss,
For a stone while 'tis rolling can gather no moss.
HE.
Dear wife you've convinced me,l'll argue no more,
] never once thought of your dying before ;
My children I love too, although they are fmail ;
And my own life, I value as much as my all ;
We'll stick to our farm and prevent every loss,
'Tis the stone that is rolling, that gathers no moss.
Let all our whole care, be our farming affair.
To make our corn grow and our apple-trees bear ;
Ambition's a trade, no contentment can know,
SHE#
So I'll to my diftaff.
HE
And I'll to my plough.
BOTH.
We'll flick to oir farm and prevent every loss,
,'Tilth# fene tout is rolling can gather no moss.
BETWEEN COLIN AND HIS WIFE.
HE. [heart,
fray hear me, dear C lin, I think you are wrong,
The land of Kentucky's not bought with a song;
And of purchasing whiffy I almost despair,
For or ragged bid paper will never pat's there.
Stick cloje, iSc.
HE. [cows,
Here's our house, & our farm, we have horses and
We have heifers, and fheep,we have harrows and
ploughs,„
fe sides a good barn too, that flands in our yard,
W rich will fetch us old paper, to bdy up the hard,
While here, Ede.
SINCE times are so bad, I must te 1 you sweet-
I'm thinking to leave off my plough & my cart,
And down .o Kentucky a journey we'll go,
To better my fortune aS other folks do.
For here 1 mufl labour each day in the fie'd,
Andthe winter confutes ail the farmer wlljield.
AlColin, I've feeri with a forrowful heart, [cart }
That you long have negleded your ploughs yOur
Our sheep now at random dilorderly run.
And Sunday's new jacket goes every day on ;
Stick close to your farm or you 11fuffir a lojs.
For a stone labile 'tie rolling can gather no mojs.
Dear wife don't be talking of stones and of mdfs,
Nor think I by going can fuffer a loss ;
When there we can have as much land as we please,
Drink whilky when thirfiy, and live at our case.
labile here, &c.
I with we'd a puffe of a thousand bright crowns,
And a score of good lo fr s,in the belt of their towns ;
OS ! then I'd remove there, and with for good luck,
While I roll'd in my coach dn the banks of
SEAT of the MUSES.
CX3 ^<2
FROM THE NEW JERSEY JOURNAL.
A POETICAL DIALOGUE,
SHF^
SHE.
SHE.
HE.
If,All persons interefled in the
following Revolve of the Ge
neral-Court,are desired to call
at the Secretary's Office for the
adju/lment of their accounts.
State of New-Hampshire.
In the House of Referel entafrees,
Feb. I, 1791.
RESOLVED, that the Pre
fdentwith advice ofCoun.
cil, give order for the payment
of inch sums as may be found
due to the Members of the
Council and House of Repre
sentatives of the late Province
of New-Hampshire, for their
attendance during the two lad
years previous to the com
mencement of the late Revo
lution,at the rateof seven {hil
lings pr. day for each member
oftheCouncil,and fix (hillings
pr. day for each member ofthe
House; pursuant to a vote of
theLegiflature at their present
Session for that purpose.
Sent up for concurrence,
JOHN S. SHERBURNE,
Speaker P T,
In Senate the Came day re id and concurred.
CONGRESS of the UNITED
STATES— cthird session.
JOSIAH BARTLETT,
Pefoienf.
Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON,
Secretary.
Begun and held at the City of
Philadelphia, on Monday the
6th of December, 1790.
Ari ACT for the admiffiori of
the State of VERMONT
into the UNION.
nrHE State of Vermont
having petitioned the
Congress to be admitted a
member of the United States—
Be it enabled by the Senate
and House of Referefentatir.es of
the United States of America in
Congress affemb ed and it is here^
by enabled and declared. That
on the fourth day of March
one thousand leven hundred
and ninety one, the laid State;
by the narrie and style of "The
State of Vermont," shall be
received and admitted into the
Union, an entire member of
the United States of America.
Frederick A. Muhlenberg,
Speaker of the House of Reprefcnwives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice Prefiderit of the
U. States, and President of the Senate.
Approved, February 5th.1791.
G. WASHINGTON.
President of the United States.
Depdfited among the rolls in the Office
of the Secretary of State.
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Secretary of State.
From a late London paper.
IT has puzzled some natu
ralists to find out what
view nature could have had
in creatingLizards,or whether
(lie had any view at all. No
thing shews the weakness and
folly of man more than such
difquifitions.—-—lt has lately
been difeoveredj that the tail
of a Lizard boiled,produces a
broth or gravy, which, after
a few times drinking, cures,
radically, the most inveterate
cancer.
brom ffo Connecticut Courant,
" R '
How fcould I work it?
ACCORDING to what is
to be done. If you
would do a great deal, and do
it well, write in large letters,
and paste up over the fire-place
ot your keepingroom, the fol
lowing maxim of the great De
/i%Penfionary of Holland, DO
ONE THING ONLY AT A TIME.
Are you a farmer ?—Keep
each kind of work, as much
as possible by it felf, Don't
run to half a dozen fields in a
day,and Work a little in each,
Unleis necessity obliges you to
do it, That work which
may be done at any time,
Ihould ue done in the winter,
or when you have leisure. Get |
wood in winter, and cover itl
—if I lee a man, in mid/l of\
harve/l, forced to go after a
load of wood, I am lure he
has not worked it right. Keep
a complete let ot instruments
or tools; When I lee a man
running to one neighbour af
tet a fan, and to another after
a (hovel,.l set him down not
only as poor, but as doomed to
be poor. His neighbour's fan
or his shovel, will do for the
present, but the occasions for
them occur often, and how
much time and labour are loft,
^ ^tf^^^^ ^?.
would work to advantage,
keep a complete let of utensils
tor your bufinefs —keep them
howled, that they may /^ long;
a a in then place, that yoU
may easily find them.
Do not run in debt to buy
land. Land will not gerieral-
Ilylly lupport a family, and pay
;taxes, and intere/i on its Va-
Ilue.1 lue. If you have but a small
; piece of land, cultivate it well,
I make it produce as much as
possible, and if you can get
Imore than will maintain you
Ifrom this little farm, lay out
The PROMTER.—No. XI.
the surplus in buying more.
If you cannot get more than a
iubfiftence, it is time to think
of lessening expenses, or fel
ling out and buying new land;
Depend on it, farmers who
pay ihtereft, do not work it
riglt: Never do work to the
halves. If you build a honfe,
or a barn, lay a plan that is
within your power, and then
finijh what you begin. For
want of the la/l half, the firft
is often totally loft.
Never buy rum on credit,
nor until you have laid up mo
ney enough to pay youryear's
taxes. Then a little rum will
tafle good. The man who
drinks rum, before it is paid
for, does not work it right.
His appetite runs aw a, with
his purle, & his judgment too;
TO THE PROMPTER.
MISCELLANY.
mer, a mechanic or any other
perlon, often repeat that lay
ing and appear to aa from the
opinion, that it will do for the
present, I rely on it he is a slo
ven, a drone or fomethmg
worle, I never knew such a
man thrive."
"I know one of these do for
the-prejent farmers who n'ever
effe&ually repairs his fences;
but when a breach is made,
he fills it with a bulb that a
sheep may remove. —If a rail
is broken, and another is not.
at hand, he takes the next bil
let of wood, uderts one end in.
the pod and ties up the other
with elm or hickory bark—.
he fays, this will do for the pre
sent. His cattle learn to be
unruly—to remedy the evil,
fetters, shackles, ck^s yokes
and what he calls pokes are in
vented —and his cattle and
horses are doomed to hobble
about the pafture,with a hun
dred weight ot Wood or iron
machines about their feet and
necks. The man himlelf in
two years Ipends time enough
in patching up his fences and
making fetters, to make agood
effectual fence round his
whole farm, which would
!wkrit Very'^ pepafffig~lA>
"T"'” common faying
does as much mifchief
in lociety as rum or a pe/faience.
If I hear a man, whether a far-
" A neat woman who does
bufine's thcroughlv, leeps
thin,o- in order with about half
the labour that allot empkys
who keeps things forever out of
order. If a pail or kettle is
tiled, it is directly made clean,
fit for other uks and put in
its place. When it is want
ed, it is icady. But a slut u
ses an article and leaves it any
where, dirtv; unfit for use a
hother time —By and by it is
wanted and cannot be found
".I have only to add, that I
went to church, on a late cold
Wnday, when a neighbouring
clergyman officiated. He had
spoken to.his ffteenthl,, when
the clock struck one. Every
man was shivering with cold
and fhuffling his feet—the par
son took thehint,and broke oft
with, this will dojor theprefer.^
- -" Moll, where did you
leavd the kettle ?"—" I han't
had the kettle, Nab had it
last" —'' Nab, did you have
the 'kettle ?" " Yes, but it is'
dirty"—So the kettle is found,
but it is half an hour's work
to fit it for the purpose requir
ed ; in the mean time, the ne
ceffaty business tnuft lie by.
Yet this woman fays when she
does any thing, it will do jor
the prejent.
twenty years."
Fxr/c^s
From 'The FPC MI TER.'
It will do for the present.