The farmer's every-day book; or, Sketches of social life in the country : with the popular elements of practical and theoretical agriculture Also, five hundred receipts on hygeian, domestic, and rural economy . little mounds, containing thedear objects she once pressed to her full bosom. What is solovely or so impressive, as the sight of a whole family makingtheir pilgrimages to such a place ? Here they experience a kindof mental renovation long manifest in the domestic circle!Their social affections receive a fresh impulse, and their mentalassiduities more than ever connect them in one indiss
The farmer's every-day book; or, Sketches of social life in the country : with the popular elements of practical and theoretical agriculture Also, five hundred receipts on hygeian, domestic, and rural economy . little mounds, containing thedear objects she once pressed to her full bosom. What is solovely or so impressive, as the sight of a whole family makingtheir pilgrimages to such a place ? Here they experience a kindof mental renovation long manifest in the domestic circle!Their social affections receive a fresh impulse, and their mentalassiduities more than ever connect them in one indissoluble fel-lowship. If every family of a town would statedly do this, thecemetery would become one of the most efficient handmaids tothe pulpit, in the promotion of pure religion and social virtue;and would become, like the Church, the threshold to a betterworld! Soon may this fluttering spark of vital flameForsake its languid melancholy frame !Soon may these eyes their trembling lustre close,Welcome the dreamless night of long repose ;Soon may this woe-worn spirit seek the bournWhere, lulld to slumber grief forgets to mourn 1 Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in million ; the herring ten thousand; the carp a quarter of a million; THE WESTERN PIONEERS. A band of hunters were we. All day longOur feet had traild the woods. The panther fierce,The snorting bear, the cowering wolf, the deerSwift as our balls, had fallen, as ciackd the shotsOf our slim, deadly rifles. Emigration has been led to portions of our Western countryby a class of hardy pioneers, called hunters. This was partic-ularly true, some forty or fifty yeai-s since, of the mountainousdistricts in Western Vii-ginia and North Carolina, Kentucky, andTennessee. These were among the first essays for subduingthat vast region of the North American continent, including thelong rancre of the Alleghanies and the valleys between themand the Mississippi. Ordinarily, the pioneers puisued t
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