The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-01-31 00:00:00

TILE LOVER'S TUG.

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The stratagems of lovers have been so complicated in all
ages, and so diversified in their operations and effect, that
when any new one reaches our ears we feel a pleasure in
making it public, for the benefit of our amorous young
readers of either sex. The north of England has always
been noted for the de1.172 and sentiment with whim the
tender passion is expr ;—there is so much softness, so
much feeling, and breathing of love, in the dulcet tones of
pure Yorkshire dialect, emanating from lips which in red-
ness may vie with the beet-root, and in thielness with say
of the favoured tribes who pant in sooty greatness at the
torrid zone. We soulless creatures of the south are con-
tented that our admired ones shall drop their Fars that we
may entwine the amorous epistle in its concealing folds, but
mark how difFerent is love-making in the north :—A dam-
sel, who lives at Carlisle, was in the habit of receiv-
ing the addresses of a spruce-looking mechanic ; and,
at the earnest solicitations of her lover, she consented
to admit hint into the house after the family had re-
tired to rest. To accomplish this, however, it was ne-
cessary that our heroine should go to bed herself, for
the purpose of deceiving the family ; and it was agreed
that she should tit a cord round her great toe (how senti-
mental!) the end of which was to be eitspended from her
bed-room window, where the lover was to attend at the
appointed hour, and to warn her of his presence by pull-
ing it. But the ardent Adonis, being rather " loose of
thought," communicated, in the course of the day, the
happy plan his ingenuity had hit upon to two of his shop-
mates, who afterwards mutually agreed to precede him,
and have the first pull at the cont. Accordingly they
went to the place a little before the time appointed, and
did not wait long till the end of the cord was dropped from
the window; they both seised it ; the cord was strong, and
the men were not weak; they kept pulling away most
unmercifully. Meanwhile the luckless wench, enduring
more torture than tight lacing ever inflicted, and unable to
hold out all longer, by her reluctant screams raised emry
inhabitant in tho house, who were no loss alarmed than
herself, and who were by this time rushing into her bed-
' room to ascertain the cause. The scene which followed
was humorous enough ; the "plot " was " discovered ;"
,and the eenfueeil Belvidera had no alternative but to con-
fabs —Sunday Paper.

STII•NGR PIRTINACITV.—A landed proprietor, a few
miles to the eastward of this county, was, a few weeks we,
dangerously wounded by a spring-gun which he had canoed
to be set in his plantations ; and, in so grievous a manner
as, on his recovery, to induce hint to offer up public tha:,kt.
giving in the parish church : vet, so powerful was his re-
gard for his pheasants, that because(' the dreadful machine
to be again ehargetl for their protection, and the gune-
keeper became the victim ; and, we regret to say, waS
much more seriously injured than his muter; inha
it is scarcely expected he will recover.—Cambridge reptr.
To BREW •1.11 ON A 57TA1.1. SCAI.E.—Put a banitell
of malt into a teakettle, and fill it with water rather under 4
boiling heat. 11 hen it has stood some time, pour it of:
and fill it up again, but with boiling water. Contime
pouring it off' and filling it up till the malt is tasteless;
then boil the liquor with a few hops in it, and, when hike-
warm, add a liti• • yeast to ferment it. One peck of m' I
and four ounces of hops will produce ten quarts of ale,
much better than porter.—Econoritist.
IliteAtceAttr FOR CONSUMPTIVE PATIRNTS.—Tbofie
of a spare habit, and disposed towards affections of the
lungs, should breakfast ou the following :—Boil a dessert-
. spoonful of ground coffee in about a pint of milk, a quartet
, of an hour ; then put into it a shaving or two of kinglaw.
and clear it ; let it boil a few minutes, and set it on the
tide of th; Ere :u 2ne, few:lt:tied with sugar,

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