The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-02-11

dmlaDle anu intelligent man, who acted as
physician and surgeon to it, used frequent
: ~ to lodge on shore at the house of res
, pectable lady, to whose only son, child
-FOUR or i've years old, the Doctor had be-
come strongly attached, from having dis
covered IN him an extraordinary degree OF
precoclty, and an interesting disposition.
Alter some months, the vessel was again
ordered to sea, and DR.. D parted
with regret. More than year had elaps-
ed, when the same vessel returned TO Nor
folk, when the DR.. repaired to the house of
his andlady to see his little protegee The
child flew to his embraces delighted to see
him. After the first caress was over, " Who.
my 'toNr bey,r cold d. n a., .,
his hand as be spoke, 'who has been pow
dering your hair :" Sc Nobody" replied the
child, whose joy was changed to the most
extravagant grief and bursting into pas
sion of tears he quilted the apartment. DR..
D., sat in silent amazement, for the
boys hair was white rs the mountain snow.
In moment after the mother entered, and
when the first congratulations were over,
he inquired the meaning of the late scene.
| Saying to her what have you been doing
to your sons hair" +" Nothing" sobbed she,
and following the boys example, she weep
ing left the room.
The next time he called, she was better
able to account for the mystery; and in
formed hin; that short time before she
had been aroused at midnight by the loud
and piercing shreks of her child and on
Fastening to his bed, found him sitting up
in it his countenance wild with horror, and
the whole surface of his body dripping with
cold perspiration. On being made sensible
! of her presence, in confused and incoher-
ent manner, he told her he had been visited
by a frightful dream. The next day it was
discovered that his hair was bleached, as
though he had lived century. The mys-
terry, for such it may certainly be consider
ed, was not perfectly understood, till about
three years since, when, by the dying con-
tession of a relation, who was to inherit the
property of the child at his decease, it was
confessed, that en- the night which the boy
imagined he had been visited by dream,
he had himselfmade an attempt to strangle
! him, but was deferred from the commission
by the terrific screams of the boy.
/ HONEY. Is there any man who has so lit
); tie of sweet tooth in his head' that he
will pass by cup of honey, leaving it like an
Indifferent thing? Il is not like one of the
deleterious inventions of man-it is not like
moasses, that a yankee loves in his youth
but swallows in more fiery shape as he
he lost, nor is there danger ii its indul-
gence. Here is field for taking advantage
of the industry of bees, that we neglect in
New England; and it is a neglect of self
interest-(of which our enemies would in
other things be slow to accuse rs.) The
trouble of keeping ten swarms of hees is
not equal to that of keeping one dog, be he
q Mongrel, puppy, whelp, or hound,
Or cur of low degree"
and the profit from ten swarms would put
in the farmers pocket fifty dollars year
whereas Towser and Tiger, or Wols, or
Lion, would cost twenty five for food. and
tricks and, lawsuits for worrying sheep.
The dog also, if he be quarrelsome, will
make his master cultivate his angry passions
for who will not back his dog? or who
will not fight for him
But what different lessons would be set
by the bees; industry, order, subordination.
the mathematics-and defence, even to
death, of their homes. We hope to see the
bees in proportion to the flowers which are
suffered to waste away like an unmarried
heauty-raising admiration--but leaving
no profitable legacy as trace of brief ex-
istence.- Boston Erening Gazette.
NAUTICAL SERMON. When Whitfield
preached before the seamen of New York.
he had the following bold apostropne in his
sermon:
"Well, my boys, we have a clear sky,
and are making fine Roadway over a smooth
sea, before light breeze, and we shall soon
lose sight of land. But what means this
sudden lowering of the heavens, and that
dark cloud arising from beneath the west
ern horizon? Don't you hear distant thun-
der? Don't you see those flashes of light
ming There is storm gathering! Eve
ry man to his duty How the waves rise
and dash against the ship The air is dark
The tempest RACES Our masts are gone
The ship is on her beam ends Wha;
next?"
1t is said that the unsuspecting tars re.
minded of former periIs of the deep, as il
: struck by the power of magic, arose with
5 united voices and minds, and exclaimed
-, Take to The long boat"
, Mr.. W., seizing upon this reply, urged
r them to take Jesus Christ as the long boat
with an ingenuity which produced the hap.
piest effects.
Con SEES Me. Persons inclined to the
; sin of stealing are satisfied if they only
, can be certain they shall not be discovered
once heard it related, that a man who
; twas in the habit of going to neigh.
! hor's corntield, to steal ears, one day he
took with him his son. a boy of eight year.
> of age. The father told him to hold the
bag while he looked if any one was near t.
, see him. After standing on the fence, anC
peeping through all the corn rows, he re-
| turned to take the bag from the child, anC
began his guilty work. Father" said the
boy, "you forgot to look somewhere else.'
! The man dropt the bag in alright, and said
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