The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-21 00:00:00

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A PiJoerget'a Soy.-A planter had a son of eight
7ars old, who caught his father's tone with precocious
fidelity. We heard him whipping him puppy behind the
house, and swearing between the blows, his father and
mother being at hand. His tone was en evident imitation of
his father's wade of dealing with hie slaw e-" I've got an
account to settle with you; I've let you go about long
snes6; I'll teach you who's yew master; there, go new,
Hod damn you, but I hav'n't got through with you yet.''
" Yen stop that cursing," said his father at length; "it is
not right for little boys to curse." "What do you do when
you get mad F' replied the boy ; "reckon you cuss some ; so
now you'd better diut up."-Oloirterre Teen,.
A FRENCH finnityr.-A little room in the roof,
whose window opens on the elates, bordered here by a
leaden gutter, a stmight peerage leading toe closet lighted by
a skylight casement : so much fur the situation. In the
room a tiny bed, but covered with the whitest sheets, some
chairs, a table, an embroidery loom, a looking-glass, and on
the top of it a branch of box ; this is the furniture. Againet
the chimney are hung two pincushions, ornamented with
silver loops and March, and contrasting by their un-
expected richness with the rest of the furniture.
Some odd cup., scrupulously clean, two vases of blue gill;
with narrow necks and expanding at the top, containing
hyacinths, whose white long-fiWsd roots are branching ant
to theeir tallest length ; a disk, a candlestick, a glees gar-
nishing the shelf, which in the middle is adorned with a
bur &moter full of the clearest water: so much ft r deco-
ration. The closet, almost empty, contains nothing but a
cupboard, and some rise pots set on plat., waltizz, while
sheltered from the weather, for the son to time and sreqe on
them through the casement. Such is the whole apartment.
-Antoine, I 'Anti de Robespierre.
Tin IN % TIVE INDIAN.-" Why do people who
write books" said my guide, "always make Indians talk
in that hifaluting way they do? Indians don't talk so and
when folks talk that way to them, they don't understand it.
They don't Lie it neither. I went up with Lieutenant —,
when he tried to make a treaty with the northern Apaches.
He had been talking up in the clouds-all nonsense-for
half an hour, and I woo trying to translate it just as foolish
as he said Indian it. An old jumped up and stopped roe.
c What does your chief talk to us in this wry for? We ain't
babies-we are fighting men: if he has got anything to tell
no, we will hear it ,• but we didn't come here to be eameed-
we came to be made drunk, and to get bollle beady and
tobacco.' "-Olmsted's Trite.
A " PLAIN MAN."-Dr. Badgerby's ungestinunly
sppmemme was seconded by corresponding mamma; but he
tamed his natural roughness to account, by WM*: addi-
I timid rudeness He took the " home and en"
His, and many worthy souls liked and yod
bin, botanse they thought a man who said soak rely
==things mast be extremely trathhal ind A
ke. , though a comma one. A man
Mimi regard for the feelings of Mhos, inns
of easel courage in giving them pen. As le De. by,
with his bank, OMNI asture, it Imperfect hint
to cat ape people's Wags, and then ism,
able nelle, he was whops toe genii, log he me a plain
Imes, asonnend, MI lik-P/4 is spelt one Part troth,"
mine eid new to mat -Pm gals,!; Mee Lyle.
+ Tmz Dironsittav LAXDOCAPII—Fee it itl.
• tad *mat summer time, "wiles moil Midi and
me green," that Thema Bernd, y
' wit:row, a sick child et as upload limy nor *km
Ma SO town. And_ pertly blow ha ISM no and
, par* Mame he mid as -Mien having Mar Imo nor
i ez1.... on foot, and 'bided as he mat like any
along the pleamt Ms, by llowory banks and
=s4vimigl.s, by oak and ask srldres, while Alva Imbed and
' between green bough, bolow, clear eoffeo-brosn from
, Wa rein. flome mesa me Ms turnpike-road Lc went,
, sal en away to the rigialialer
inert the sib-woods of Tee-
le up by the rill which hoes pool to pool, ova the
dges of' grey slate, in dark sedge, and
' need bright burdock leaves, and tall angelica, and en-
' need rings and tufts et Wog, mid crown, and lady-
: arm end all the semi-tee* -Minos of the fat western toll,
. end stegiabozwestern weeds; out into the bony moor at the
• Crifragrant with the gold-tipped gale, where the
nnelled with the hectic march violet, and the pink
: ii". 4 mad the pale yellow kid-stare of the hotter-
the blue belle and green threads of the ivy-
, leaved eempantela ; out upon the steep down above and away
, over the bead cattle pasture. ; and then to plume a moment
r and look far and wide over land and sea. It wee " a day of
• God," the earth lay like one great emerald ringed and
roofed with sapphire ; blue sea. blue mountain, blue sky
: overhead.-Tara rears Ago, by the Rev. C. Kingsley.

A GERMAN SONG.
Over the Rhine exec palliate three,
And drew the rein at an hostelry.
"Now but thou good wine,—ntine hostess, sly ;
And where is thylovy daughter gay 2"
"My wine it is bright, and fair to see;
My daughter, aim 1 in her shroud Bea she."
And they entered the chamber with mulled Ural,
When a collo black was the maiden's bed.
The Aral he lifted the sea from her fare,
And look'd on the maiden with sorrowful gaze.
" 0 wert thou living, thou beauteous r
How would I love thee from this day
The second spread o'er her the veil
And his tears fell fast as he turn's
" Ah me : that thou Best thus de
Have I not loved thee this Many
But the third came forward, and
Aad the maiden he bleed on her
" In the past, ea to-day, I have I
And I'll love thee still, through
—The
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