The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1821-08-08

Oidenbarneveld, July %, 1921.
From the Craftsman.
" In truth, Horatio, tits no more lie,
That owls do preach, and witches sweep the
sky;
For on my fathers farm, near Holy Rood,
I've seen cock-turkies lead their silly brood"
During the month of June last, it was
noticed by some of the domesticks in the
family of Mr.. Philip Hasbrouck, wor-
thy farmer in the town of New Paltz,
that black cock-turkey became from
day to-day very troublesome in the pen
where hen of his species was confined
with her brood. He appeared to be
extremely anxious to conciliate the good
will of the young; and, by way of man
ifesting his paternal benignity, he fire.
quently squatted down, and encouraged
them to gather under his wings. As his
modesty, however, did not extend so
far as to stint him in the indulgence of
his voracious appetite with the food
which at intervals was thrown into the
pen for the consumption OF the brood,
it was deemed a measure ofnecessity to-
imprison the poor fellow in a sort of sty
where one of the hens had Matched
The loss of liberty seemed, at first,
greatly to affect him; but, like William
Goblet, Sir Francis Burdett, and other
eminent prisoners Of the human species,
he was not long in forming scheme to
divert his mind during the solitary
hours of confinement. Fortune, it seems,
in one of her capricious humours, had
preserved two addle eggs in the old
nest of his prison, and upon these eggs,
without more ado, he carefully settled
down.
When he had thus Matched away two
tedious weeks upon eggs that were des-
tined never to fulfil his hopes, his mis-
tress, in pity for the motherly soIicitude
evinced by him, removed the two addle
eggs and filled his nest with upwards of
twenty fresh ones from the common
dung-hill fowl. Upon these. eggs he
continued to hatch with the same good
faith and anxiety, pecking violently at
any thing that was thrust into the sty to
disturb him, till at length, IN due season,
he had the happiness to find his uncom-
mon care rewarded by the production of
a large and beautiful brood of chickens.
1t was now that all the finer feelings of
his nature appeared to be called forth.
He guarded, and still continues to guard,
with ever-watchful eye, the welfare of
his little fock-gathering them careful
ly under his wings at night-scratching
the earth with his long black legs in
search of food-taking up the grains in
his bill, and dropping them again when
he has called his troop together, by a
sort of sharp clucking similar to that OF
the hen.
In a word, this black cock-turkey.
with brood of twenty-five fine chick
ems, following him with filial attention
over the farm-yard, exhibits phenom.
enon upon which the naturalist may
gaze with wonder and delight.
/ The word grocer was originally used
as the term implies, to designate whole
sale dealer-the word stationer was EN-
ployed to distinguish resident shop
keeper from an itenerant trader-an,
} the word Milliner was at first writer
,, Milaner, because the articles she deal
in then mostly came from Milan.
Wholesome Drink.-To render waite
r particularly wholesome and truly palata
, BILE, those who wish to drink il in perlec
, ton, should, afterhaving boiled and fiji
tratedit, cause it to be put into com
mon barrel churn, where it may be agi
: tated to any degree wished for, and the
: bottled with couple of dried laisins i
: each bottle. This will give it sut1i
: cient quantity of fixed air, and make
: truly delicious.