The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-02-18
lalry read my thoughts, as if they were
an omen ballad

larry read my thoughts, as if they were
an open ballad. 81
"'Ah,' she said, they are different
but the rule holds good-genlle and sim
pie' hot and cold, old and young; you
must take II easy, or you'll never be easy
yourself. Let passionate temper cool
dc not blow upon it; breath may ruffle
a lake, and kindle fire. Let a sulky
temper alone; it's standing pool; ,hd
more it's stirred. the more i. will offend.
| try to talk her fine English, Aileen. bu,
it bothers me- continued old Alice.
"Well, the end of it was. that she fin.
lshed as before, by telling me TO take i,
easy; which after that l did; and mus,
say that James's last breath was spent in
blessing me. Well, dear, Miles Fender.
grast was rich, and was poor-he wan
ted mother for FIVE children and servan,
Tor himself; and SO he took me. There
was great deal Of love, young, fresh,
heart sweet-love at the first; and more
than is going in general to the second;
but on my grief! there was none to the
third. On, but marriage to woman with
out love!-what is it! Where love is, it
is even pleasant to hear harsh word or
an unkind look--a satisfaction that YOU
can show your love by turning bitter into
sweet. Service is no service then; his
voice is yer music; his words yer law;
his very shadow on the ground YER
brightest sunshne.''
AUNT" said Aileen; ''you did not
think that with the first, at the time, or
you would not have wasted the good peo-
pies advice.
T" True for We, avourneen; we never val
ue the sunbeams so much as in the dark
OF the moonless night! we never value a
friends advice till he is beyond our reach;
we never prize the husbands love, or the
mothers care, until the grave is closed
over them; and when we seek them there,
the grass that we weep over is green,
the mallow and the dock have covered the
cross on the maidstone, and the red earth
worms we have disturbed bring us no
message" -
81 don't want to hear any more. aunt"
said Aileen. panied by the picture her
aunt had drawn-'I will prize Mark.
Now I'll own to the first Of the quarrel,
and the last word of it, if he'll confess TO
the middIe.'
''Let quarrel alone, when once it's
over,' interrupted her aunt. "a quarrel,
darllnt, is like butter milk-when once
1t is out of the churn, the more you shake
it the sourer it grows
Sand must say nothing when he
comes home.''
ooh yes, say, "Mark, my hearts de-
Light " Oh, aunt, that would never do"
"Well. yer ashamed 10 say what you
feel, smile and kiss will do as WE'LL"
"Did the fairy queen give you the same
advice the third timer said the bride,
like Aurora at the counsel; "for
l suppose you saw her the third time"
Il must say, chora, she wasn't so
civil to me the last time as she was the
first and second" answered the old dame,
"She tould me was mt as pref
ly as used to be-that was true enough,
10 be sure, only one never likes to hear
it; she tould me that, when the bloom of
a woman's cheek fades, the bloom of her
heart ought to increase; she talked deal
that l did not quite understand, about
men making laws and how every one has
4 thorn ofsome kind or other 10 bear with:
she tould me how hard it was to find three
roses in a garden all of the same shape,
color and scent, and how could expect
three good husbands! She said that as
had borne my crown / must bear my
cross; she was hard enough upon me, but
the wind up of her advice to me in all
my troubles was, to take 1t easy: she
said she had been married herself more
than five hundred years'"
"The ould crayther! and to talk Of
your not being so purity as you were!'
said Aileen.
70 Hush, avourneen! Sure they have the
use of the May-dew before it falls, and
the color of the lilies and roses before it's
folded in the tender buds, and can steal
The notes of the birds threats while they
sleep"
And STILL exclaimed Aileen, half
pouting, {" the best advice they can give
10 married woman, under all trouble,
is--fo take 1t easy"
HORSE TRADING.-It is sometimes
amusing to hear couple of ,jockies trading
in Horse flesh. They are generally the
shit or miss portion of community, and
rely more upon ''chances" than any other
class of business men. An instance of this
kind, in which one of our neighbors was
'came off the other day, and
exemplifies the gravity with which the
sucker swallows costly joke.
GLOW will you trade! was the interroga-
tory of the stranger.
"Unsight, unseen," replied neighbour B.
agreed" said the stranger, "provided
you answer my questions and pay five
dollars for every falsehood you tell me. :"
Done" says Mr. B.
"Is he sound in his limbs!'
Eyes"
sis he sound in wind!'
"Yes."
HAS he good eyes!''
s.Yes."