Litchfield enquirer., 1835-04-16

about q haaf O pound O seal and chueked tito she bear. But either because it wanse enough for ltim, or else on account of his feelcn bad at the captin'n goen, the beast wouldn't touch it to eat it, and he laid it down, and growled and moaned over it quite pitiful. Well, of they went, one one way, and tother mother way, both feerH pretty bad, I expect. After a while the captin got smart and cold, and felt mighty lonesome, and he said he raaly thought hold gin ia and died iflhey hadn't pick d him up that atternoon.'
 Who picked him up Venus1'
 Whol cod6sh craft of Newfoundl land, expect. They didn't know what to make O ,him when they first see him slingen up his hat for 'atn. But they gCg out all their boats, and took small swivel and a couple a' muskess board and start ed off-expecten is was the sea-sarpens, Eor an old maremaid. They wouldn't be- lleve 1t was a man, until he told 'em all aboui t, and then they didn't hardly be- lieve it nuther, and they cut him out O tke ice and tuk him aboard their vessel, amt rnbbcd his. legs with oil o' yitrol but it was long time RfOre they come to-
 Didn't they burt him badly in cutting him out Venus2' t
 No sir, believe tot': not 50 bad as one might s'posc for yon see he'd beeR stuck in 80 long, that the circulation on his blood had kind U rotted tho ice that @as' right next to him, and when they begun to cut, it crack'd of patty smart and easy, and he come out whole like hard billed egg
 What became of the bear2s
 Ss Can't say as to that, what become on him. He went of to sea somewherss, I expect. I should ike to know. myself, how the varmcnf got along, right wei, for it was kind in him to let the cartin have the biggest half of the seal, any how.-- That's all boys. How nsany's asleepl'
 When Spring returns, aii Is life, motion and activity. Every thing nndergoes a change. Plants that were dead, are quick- dned ipso life, and Hll that had vanished nov re-appears. The dismal and meIan- choly waste is clothed with howers--and deserts office and snow are blossoming with the rose. But inc history ofa year, with its Blossoms and fruits---sunshine and snow, Is but the history ofa single n,oment.--. This seeming change is but an illHsion.-- Noon and night; morning and evening; summer and winter--all exists On the same time. Tfw could take the wings. of an eagle, and soar away into the regions of space, then would the globe we inhabit, las ], moves onward itii' it's course.) } appear lo us in its light and shade, and all tlie vari- cites of the seasons at tha same instant.-1-: The evening splendor of one Country. ii tho morning light of its afIlip0des. One half tie world is lost iM sluTnber, while ths other is busy and active. Here is quiet and rcpose--there is mirth and festiyity. Here is the brightness of the noon, there the solemnity of midnight. On one side we behold the earth covered with snow and ice, the inhabitants half benumbed with cold--on the other, the plains smoking, tho plants whitening, and the animals dying with the intensity of heat. In one place we see the blossoms of Spring, in another the ripe and mellow fruits of autumn What orderi what beauty! what enchant--
 ment And this, in our limited vie~y we call the change of the seasons.
 Txe Apple.-ft is difficult 10 find ade- qnate terms to set forth the value of the
 advantages that have accrued to mankind l from the cultivation of this justly high-pri-
 zcd fruit. In the woods and hedges of
 England, the crab and welding apples ara
 every where found crooked, hostile, rigid
 in figure and quality; with numerous small
 austcre fruit, which even the :mog will hard-
 ly eat hut, transpianted into the garden, and subjected to the corrections of the
 horiicnliurisi, they have. in the course of time, been divested of their savage charac.
 ter, forming goodly tree, and yielding
 crops of goodly fruit, fit for many healthf6l purposes oflife. Many the newest sorts
 have been spoata neously produced, and q great number by the art of fertiliziDg the flowers of one with the pollen or dust of another. One circumstance in tkS history ofthe apple must not pass unno,iced here. viz. the deterioration of the old sorts, which regaled and were the boast of our forefath- CTS 2 century ago. It is the opinion of an eminent ofehaEdisss that, as an apple is an
 artificial production, and as such has iss ssa-
 ges of youth, maturity, and old sge, t ean-
 not. in its period of decrepitude. bs by any \ means renovated Co its present ststes either by pruning or cutting down. changing iss iplace. or by trspsfsrring ito parts to young
 and vigorous stocks and that, in whatever
 station it may be placed, 1t carries wish it
 the decay and diseases offs parent. This is the most rational account which has been given of this indisputable fact; and though ". -.