Litchfield enquirer., 1838-01-18
YXe Man of Leisure and the Pale Boy.

Txe Man of Leisure and the Pale Boz.
 "You'll please not to forget to ask the plac' for me, Sir" said a pale blue-eyed Doy' a: he brushed the coat of the Man of Leisure a his lodgings.
 "Certainly not" said Mir. Inklin, "I shal be going that way in day or two"
 "Did you ask for the place for me yester. dav?" said the pale boy, on the following day, with a quivering lip. as he performed the same office.
 "No," was the answer. "I was busy, bu Twill today" .&
 "God help my poor mother," mu.mured the boy, and gazed listlessly on the cent Mr Inklin laid in his hand.
 The boy went home. He ran to the hun- gry children with the loaf of bread he had earned by brushing the gentlemeli's coats at the Hotel. They shouted with joy, and his mother held out her emaciated hand for portion, while sickly smile fitted across his face.
 "Mother, dear," said the boy, Mir. Inklin thinks he can get me the place, and shall have three meals day-only think, mother, three meals! and it won't take me three min utes to run home and share it with you"
 The morning came, and the pale boys voice trembled with eagerness as he asked Mr. Inklin if he had applied for the place.
 "Not yet" said the Man of Leisure, |" but there is time enough"
 The cent that morning was wet with tears. Another morning arrived.
 "It is very thoughtless in the boy to be so late," said MT. Inklin. "Not soul here to brush my coat"
 The child came at length, his face swollen with weeping.
 clam sorry to disappoint you," said the Man of Leisure, "but the place in MT. C-'s store was taken up yesterday"
 The boy stopped brushing and burst atresh into tears "1 don't care now," said he, sob- ping, "we may as we'll starve. Mother is dead.'
 The man of Leisure was shocked, and he gave the pale boy dollar!
 The Nun of Leisure on death bed.-Mr. Ink lin was taken ill. He had said often that he thought religion might be good thing, and he meant to look into it. An anxious friend brought clergyman to him. He spoke ten- derly but seriously, to the sufferer, of eternal truths.
 "Call tomorrow" said the Man of Leisure, "and we will talk about these matters"
 That night the Man of Leisure died.
 Tae MIX Thief-Sagacity of c Dog.-A milk man in this city, in his errands about supplying his customers, was in the habit of leaving his cart at some corner, and taking one ofhis three gallon milk cans, running in- to their houses and retailing his milk until the cans were emptied, and then returning again to his cart for another supply. In SUD- plying the house in Court, it was his cus- tom to set down one of his cans in an arch- way, near the corner, to save him the trouble of Juggling it about unnecessarily. For sev- eral mornings during the last three weeks, he was much puzzled on his return from his errands up the Court, by the mysterious and unaccountable abduction of large portion of the milk from the can left by him in the arch way. Quite full when he left it, on his return he would find it considerably minus. His suspicion for some time rested upon one of the domestics in the neighborhood, and he accordingly charged her with the delinquen. cy. She triumphantly refuted the imputa- tions with the proof that she was always in bed and asleep at that hour in the morning, and moreover that she was Grahamite and consequently profound milk hater. The culprit was at length discovered. The milk man changed the location of the milk can from the alley to the sidewalk, that he might light upon it once in while, and observe who it was that made such Qo him unproftable) love to it; what was his astonishment on the morning of the alteration to observe large watch dog belonging to one of his customers emerge from the arch, and with his feet push the can, littlesby little, into the archway !- Curious to see the end of the game. the milk man walked down slyly on the opposite side and watched the dogs proceedings. This four-legged pilferer, who was very strong, showed along the can to the spot on the bot tom of the arch where the bricks had settled down-making little hollow-and with his teeth extracting the stopper, with the great est sang froid imaginable capsized portion of the milk into the hollow, and replaced the stopper, licked the outside of the vessel clean as he found it, pushed it back to its station on the side walk, and then returned to his new fangled dog fashioned milk platter, took an early breakfast off his ill-begotten gain, lick. ed his chops complacently, and made his exit up the yard!
 The admiring milkman gave information to several of his neighbors of the curious fact, and from curiosity the dog was watched several mornings, and he invariably went through the same manouver. The milkmar has since found it necessary to leave the ex tra can in his cart.-Boslon pa.
 Loco Focoism.-Petitions of an extraordin ary character were to-day presented in tho Assembly, by MT. Sibley, who in offerins them remarked that however much he differ ed in sentiment from the memorialists, h, held the right of petition to be sacred. On cfthese Petitions asks for the repeal of au la,O schich prohibits ordinary labor on the Sabbatl Gndfor the passage of q laO prohibiting Clerga men from performing the marriage contract an from acting as Inspectors of Public Schools In reply to an inquiry of MT. Taylor, as t what sort of people had signed this petition MT. Sibley replied that the gentleman who's name stood at the head of it, was last winte appointed First Judge of Monroe County