New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-29

Who should GENE to my lodge this morning but true
Horueric or Paphlagonan mamie had 80 su.tahie ahd
poetic name that am sorry cannot print y heFt
CanGcGn, wood chopper and postDaker VINO can hoie
CIV rosts in day who made his last supper on WOOL
chuck which his dog caught. He, too, hes heard oil
Homer. end, Il were not for books wouia not Know
What to DO rainy days though perhaps he has not read
orc wholly through many rainy seasons. Some priest
who could pronounce the Greek tsef Hugh! hun TO real
his in the Testament in his native pansb lar away
end now ust translate him, while he holds the book
Achilles reproof to Paroclus for hs sal coantenance-
nv are YOU in tesrs Pairocus like young girl =
or h.ve you alone head some news from Ph,hla'
They say ihs, MenaiiuI lives YET. son q Ae,or.
Eiler OF whom hss died should sss'iy sTeSe'
He,ays That's good" lie has a great bundle Of
hite oek bark under his for sick man. gathered
u Suucay morning. Il suppose there no harm ia
ccirg after such thing today says he 10 hin Homer
W.. great writer though what bis wiling was about he
do not know. more simple and natnra. man ~ wohi1
he hard % fnd Vice and disease which cast such SOM
her moral hue the world seemed to nave hardly any
,;.rce for him He was about twenty eight years old
and bad left Canada and his fathers house dozen years
before 70 work in the States aud earn money 10 pay
fam with al lat, perhaps IL his native country ne was
cast the coarstst mold stout but sluggish Dody yet
ac,ully carried with thick sunburnt neck dark bushy
hair and dull sleepy blue eyer which were occaspnay
IN ID with expression He wore Hat graz Goth cap,
n, gy vooleolored greatcoat, and eowhide boots He
was great consumer Of meat usually carrying his dinner
10 bis work couple OF miles past my house-ior ne
cbotptd all summeTin tn-psl cold meats, often cold
wooGchucks AMI coffee in stone bottle which danged
by a string from hs belt; and sometimes be offered me
drink lie came along earl. crossing my bean-held
though without anxe;y haste 70 get 20 ms work such as
Yankees exhibit he vcs NJ a-goIng 10 hurt himself tie
did care if he only earned biz board Frequently he
would leave bis dinner IN the bushes, when ais dog nal
ceuSLt uoodchuck by the way and 90 back mile and
half 10 and leave in the cellar OF the house
where be boarded after celebrating hrsor half an hour
whether be could not sinh III The pond safely "a night
fal-loying 10 dwell loug upon these themes lie would
ssv as he went BY in the morning, Il" How thick the
p cons Ii worAing every day were not my trade,
could get oil the meat shoud wait oy
voodchucks rabbits, parirdges-by gosh could get all
should want for week IN one DAY.
He was skillful chopper, and nduged IN some noar
Isles and ornaments IN his lie cut his trees level aud
se to the ground ;ha. the sprouts which up after
ward might be more vigorous ami sled might slide over
tie .umIs and instead OF leaving whole tree 10 support
his ,orded wood he would pare away q slender stake
or spn,e- which you could break eli with ycur hand az
as;.
Ne interested oecGHse 10 vGs - quet and soh,aTy
and go tappy y,tha A vel OF good hnmCr and content
msnt hch oyeIGOTed ~ ne eyes H.. mrih va iil'-
eVi al.oy scIe'iues him a. t. vors n Ito 5000