Litchfield enquirer., 1831-03-17

with sheepskin-as to the luxury of a saddle
il was out of the question. The horse was
prepared, and the pious Deacon leaving his
shop, stayed not to remove his leather
apron, THAT sacred CLOTH but leading Ros-
mate to rail fence, he gracefully clomb
upon her back and trotted off in pursuit of
widow Beckett.
Now | beseech thee, gentle reader, not
to imagine that the fountain of the Dea-
cons feelings was at all moved or agitated
by the object in whose pursuit he was en-
gagged. No such thing He rode forth as
calmly as he usually rode to mill or to
church, not even troubling himself, like
Cyril Thornton, with preparing formal
speech: unlike common lovers (iflover he
he may be called) he adhered closely to
that scriptural injunction "take no heed
for yourselves what ye shall say" But as
time was precious, and when once engaged
in a job he loved to finish it with despatch
he quickened his nag's pace into a kind
of trot-amusing himself with listening to
the rattling of the beasts bones in their
Aeshlcss coverings, or whistling that lively
air of I" old hundred"
You may well guess that the expedition
of the Deacon excited curiosity and con-
versalion among the watchful neighbors.
For whoever has been cursed (pardon the
roughness of the word the subject is to
my feelings a sufficient excuse) with resi-
dcnce in Il small country village, Must re-
member how all eyes follow your every
action; how your complexion, dress, gait,
character, movements, sayings and doiDgs
aae noticed, remembered, talked of and re-
corded. Oh the pleasure of living like
Dinneford'S white mice in cage, OF like
monsters in spirits to be stared or wonder
ed at so thought not the Deacon, for he
thought nothing about it. He had hardly
been gone an hour before reports and sto-
fies were flying from house to house the
old gossips gathered in grand council to in
vestiga,e The subject, and the younger ones
collected in little knots wondering what
was about to happen. a....
But leaving all their wise contributions
| and profound surmises, let us go with the
lover who is now in sight of the desired ha-
ven-the widow Becket's house, and just
beginning little solioquy within himself.
"She has hundred acres ofland, thought
he, "and quite clever little snug house,
being the tidyest woman about here-let
me sec-shc is twenty-eight, nine, yes,
twenty-nine years old and is ruddy and
fair to look upon-Whoa whoa Dob
! bin" Rosinante halted at once, before a
neat little cottage, while the Deacon, with
his usual regard to saving of time, stretched
forth his whip, and without dismounting,
knocked loudly. A girl came, mot the
widows child-she had none.) ais sister
Beckett at home o. Eyes SIR" Call
her to the door" She came. Good
evening, sister," (it was just after sunset
Good evening, SIR" Sister Beckett
hem-it is the will of the Lord that mar
ry thee - The young widow knew her
man, and instantly rolling up her eyes in
pious resignation, exclaimed" The Lords
will be done, Deacon"
They fixed on day in the coming week,
for tho celebration of their nuptals, and in
ten minutes after, the Deacon had set his
face homewards, where, having arrived, he
is said to have made three pairs OF shoes
before he slept that night.
: The Appetites.-The following is thu
concluding paragraph of an article in thu
Journal of Health, on the education of thu
appetiles."
" One fundamental principle we cannot
however, abstain from mentioning at Thu
time !; il is the education of the appetites, oi
success in which so much of the happiness
of life depends. 1t must begin from til.
earliest infancy, long before the dawn o
reason, and even anterior to the Evolution
of tho moral sentiments. I he rule or
which it is conducted is u very simple one
applicable to all classes. 1t is TO allow nc
child The indulgence Of an appetite or pros
pensity other than what is required by its
ntutive wants for its bodily support and
health. Nothing is TO be conceded BY the
within or caprice of parent to the imagin-
airy wants of child !; for it must be con-
stantly borne in mind, that every gratilica-
ton Of any one sense, whether Of taste,
sight, sound or touch, is tho beginning OF a
desire for its renewal and that even re-
newal gives the probability of the indul-
gencc becoming a habit and that habit
once formed, even in childhood, will often
remain during the whole of after life, &C.
curing strengllLevery year, until it sets all
laws, both human and divine, at defiance.
Let parents, who allow their children to
sip a little of this wine, or to just taste that
cordial, or who yield to the cries OF the lit
tie ones for promscuous food. or for liber-
u ant a