The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1848-07-20
THE VOICE.
MORE DEFERRED NOTICES.


Our Notices usually get we'll seasoned before they
have chance to appear, it would seem. For to-
day. first comes new volume of the HOME JOUR-
NAL, commenced at some recent date with a notice
requested. "Mr. Willis's only present medium of
communication with the American public" We
are sorry for it-but since it's So we should be very
unwilling to do without it, for the sake of keeping
some trace of man whose undenable genius and
vanity are playing such Il ruinous game of cross
purposes, and who might, (nay may for aught we
know as his refined production, "a Plain Mans
Love-, furnished last winter to Grahams Magazine,
and an occasional sparkle of true fire from his pen
elsewhere prove, be doing work to ennoble mankind
and place his name high in the list of its beneactors
instead of merely catering for ignoble hire to the
frivolous tastes Of the weaker-headed sort of fashion,
able females.
The number alluded to contains a fine tale from
Douglass Jerrold. We will go beyond the request,
and recommend a very sweet story in the next num-
ber besides an entertaining article on Charles Lamb.
Thc rogucs tell where they get these things.
From the drippings of the Wilisan pen Correspond
once just now we Gull an incident,
CURIoUs-'IF TRUE
| My chair was on the broad step of the col
onnade, and, without thinking particularly of
my immortal soul, of which the butterfly, that
has once been worm, is the received type
among poets and philosophers, l noticed that
one Of these happy insects had taken UP his
station on a certain spot OF the gravel-walk
below. You have often observed, | dare say,
how dull their wings are without, and how
gay within, and how they stand apparently
on edge, opening and shutting like an ANNA
ted sample-book of calico. Having sat out
the sunsets of several days in the same place,
had a previous acquaintance just there-an
exemplary mamma robin who had bullded In
amaple sapling on the left, c. woodman, spare
that tree,") and who brought in the worms
from all quarters to her young, with dill
gence that made me sigh for such an agent
for The HOME JOURNAL. | presently no
ticed, however, that-fy from her nest when
she woud-thc robin was assailed by the
butterfly; and that, before proceeding on her
quest of worms, she underwent lodging
chase all over the lawn, and escaped, at last,
only by long straight flight over the fields
The valorous insect then returned to the very
same pebble wherefrom he had started, and
I observed in the course Of the hour / had
watched him, that he darted thence to attack
every worm-hunting bird that skinned over
and invariably drove them before him III
terror.
Here is brilliant, winged in
sect, that has passed through previous life
as a grovelling worm. In that defenceles
5 and subject existence, it and its children were
the prey of mercilcss birds-gobbled up with
out notice if seen abroad and kept in con
slant terror when in the family bosom. Tht
principal if not the first use, which the once
: worm makes Of a new winged existence, is t.
. return to the gravel where it has helplessl.
n crawled, and make war upon the enemy /
I left behind. 1t can do this successfully, for
though possessing none Of the bodily strength
Of the hated bird, its mysterious attack in
spires terror which unnerves His worm
, children and grandchildren arc still there
crawling and dcfenceless, and though, in tn
/ gorgeous butterfly, they do not recognize a
ancestor, he can alight close by the old hol
and scare off those victimizing bills. Invalua
A Bile departed grandfather
. Tile IVMc1-cwe Journal and HcyaM Of Reform
Fitted by Joel .She,o, NJ. D. tFowlers & Wells, Me-
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- publication; but from the well known ability Of il
Editor, and from its popular and practical objects
IS set forth on the title page, conjecture that it
4 likely to prove valuable Family companion
expect to read it and not unlikely to preserve an
% value it-a compliment (such as it is) which W
~ pay to very few things, comparatively. CMonthl.
ut price 81 90 year.)
il Vermont State Agricnhmist-Able, interestn
4 and promising. This is all we are able to say iro
y present knowledge. We trust we may find tn
" journal (of which the first number is just published
lie characterized by practical value proportloned
n the high importance of It's object If So our Fa
i'll mers will owe it to themselves to give it thorou2
. support.
ut (Monthly price 81, 90 year, c. F. Hopkins
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