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fusal, by every veteran sportsman, that these rules are not merely theoretical, but deduced from actual experience of their good effects.

am persuaded, be found, upon pe-in which you are to walk: if this be deep and dirty, I should recommend strongly Spanish leather shoes, as thin as possible, and silk stockings, in order that, your steps Early rising has been often times being light, you may not sink too particularly recommended to the deep into the mire. Nankin sportsman, as being not only agree-breeches are indispensable, particuable in the highest degree, but even larly for cock-shooting in a thick absolutely necessary for good sport. cover; they are so thin and light, Somerville, in other respects gen- that they are no restraint upon the erally judicious, seems to have fallen limbs; and if the day be raw and into this vulgar prejudice, when he cold, by letting them ait close to makes, in the beginning of the se- your skin no air will be able to get cond book of the Chase, that rap-between, and consequently you will turous address to Morn:

"Hail gentle dawn! mild blushing
goddess hail!
Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spread
O'er half the skies; gems pave thy ra-

diant way,

be exceedingly warm and comfortcommend strong fustian or waterable. Many people foolishly reproof cloth jackets for shooting; but this is a most useless and unnecessary incumbrance. I should re

And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub de-commend a broad-cloth as fine as

pend."

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can be got; the color should proTo attempt to prove the fallacy perly be yellow, because the leaves of this notion would be superfluous are then changing to this hue; and trouble, as no one can be so dull as it is always a great advantage to be not to admit, that the more ease as little seen as possible. If the and refreshment a man obtains be-day is early in September, and fore he enters upon a state of la- hot, put a great coat on by all bour, the better will he be able to means, lest, if you get warm by bear it when necessary. When at exercise, and then have occasion to last you have arisen from your per- stand still to load your piece, you suasive couch, be above all things catch cold, by cooling too suddenly. particularly careful that you do not When you get into the fields at burden your comach with devour-last, after having taken every preing too large or substantial a break-caution that you may not be in fast: let no man persuade you inconsiderately to take eggs, cold meat, tea, coffee, or other of these kind of things: a small bason of water gruel, with a thin toast, will be found by experience to be the best possible thing you can take, but particularly if it is likely to be many hours before you touch meat again. This sits light upon the stomach, and will not in the least impede the activity of your moNons. With regard to the dress I "should advise you to shoot in, much depends upon the kind of country

want of ammunition during the day, by carrying out with you ten or twelve pounds of shot, and three or four of powder, I should advise you to be especially careful, that your flint is not one of those that will give fire every time it is struck; because if you should by any accident, catch the trigger of your gun in a hedge or thicket, the piece will not be so liable to go off, and do any mischif, if the fint is extremely bad.If you are walking in company, be sure to carry your piece so, that the muzzle be always di

greeted towards your companion mpon headcount forget constantly to carry it cocked, that if any thing should get up unawares you may always be ready to let fly atiti Particularly observe this last piece of advice when getting over a fence, because the rustling you then make may very probably stira harey and then you will be prepared to shoot HeBe sure thaoin the choice of your dogs! you get the fleetest you possibly can that will run over the ground in the smallest possible times and always take two or three small spaniels out with your point-ets, which will give tongue! as soon as any thing is started; and thus you will have immediate notice of •it, though your eyes may be turned another way. Whenever any of your pointers stands, run straight up to him immediately, as hard as you are able; and when you get close up, hit him a smart blow with the but end of your gun, to make him put the birds up the moment They are in sight, you must let off 'your piece: Never mark out any particular bird, but shoot. smack at the coveyShould you be in such high luck as to bring a partridge down, let your dog run up to it, and bite it as much as he pleases: this will encourage him, and make him-For biood which he fre others wrung. more eager afterwards. It is not a Still, as a hero, be it known, bad plan to have a couple of bull dogs trained up, to accompany you on your excursions, in order that if a bull should attack you, these ani- When the present Lord Holland mals may be ready to pin him for was born, Mr. Fox who had before you immediately. When he is in been presumptive heir to the family this state shoot him, that he may estate and title, was said by a witty not offend in future. If you can lady, to resemble a fine complexion train up the bull dogs to find yourwhich is injured by the sun and air. game, you will combine two advantages together.The smaller your shot the greater is the range, and of course the chances are multiplied in your favor; therefore, by this rule, small sparrow shot will do

much more execution than the size which many prejudiced sportsmen will use for partridge-shooting-If you find any of your dogs shy, or afraid of the gun at all, the best thing is to give them a downright good fogging; and if this does not improve them, as they are running from you give them a few shot from your, gun in flank the trifling pain they will feel will soon teach them that there is nothing to be afraid of with regard to the gun. If your dogs run sheep, never be foolishly persuaded to beat them for it, or tie them to an old ram, as some recommend; but be sure to feed them plentifully on nothing but mutton, and let them now and then kill a few sheep themselves; they will soon have a surfeit of it, for those things are seldom much sought af ter which are easily obtained.—I could say a great deal more on this interesting subject, but am obliged for the present to conclude by subscribing myelf, your most obedient, and constant readery RURIÇOLA.

EPITAPH UPON A FLEA.

Great.

Supposed to have plagued Alexander the
Here rests one, who by many a leap,
Could well contrive his blood to keep;
While Alexander has been sung,

The flea's preferr'd beneath this stone;
Who from that tyrant blood could draw,
And bid defiance to the law.

A Pun.A person in the city of Chester, who is noted for a high setter of shops, as they express it in the north, had one standing empty a long time, on account of the exor

bitant rent he asked for it. A trades-sentery; but even in the drugs deman lately wrote upon the shutters signed to preserve life, as di-acorGibraltar," where it remained two dium, di-apente, di-ascordium. I or three days before the meaning was found out, which is-it never will be taken.

perceive Dr. Howard and I feel how hard-thinks I shall decease before the day cease; but before I' die, I desire to give some advice to those that survive me :-Let Gameaters consider that death is hazard and passage upon the turn of a dye. Let lawyers consider it is a very

A musical gentleman, while performing, was lately arrested by two bailiffs, who requested him to join them in a trio; I should rather imagine, said the unfortunate gentle-hard case. man, you wish for a catch.

From the Sporting Magazine for Fe. bruary, we select the LAST WORDS of Tom Ash THE PUNSTER.

MY FRIEND It is time for a man to look grave, when he has one foot there; every fit of coughing has put me in mind of my coffin, though dissolute men the seldomest think of dissolution. This is a great altera

And let meters con

sider it is hard to die jesting when
death is so hard in digesting.Here
his breath failed him, and he ex-
pired.

LINES written on the blank leaf of Mel-
moth "On the Sublime and Beautiful"
&c. presented to Miss Eliza Borr.
To fair Eliza's band consign'd,

Melmoth, how light your duty?
You've but SUBLIMITY to find;
I've pointed out the BEAUTY.

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LITERARY NOTICE.

Messrs. JoHN WEST and OLIVER C. GREENLEAF, we are happy to an tion of BURKE's works. In these is nounce, have commenced the publica collected "what was meant for mankind, "of the labors of one" born for the

flood of thought, than words, His ideas diffuse. But his style is rather the are rich and justify such bold exuberance of amplification. But he could condense as well as spread; and his works afford instances of striking pre

tion! I, that supported myself with good wine, must now be supported by a small bier. A fortune-teller once looked on my hand, and said "This man is to be a great traveller; he will be at the Diet of Worms, and from thence go to Rot-is-bone." Now, seeing I understood this double meaning; I desire to be pri-universe." As a writer, he is indeed vately buried, for I think a public funeral looks like Bary fair, and the rites of the dead too often prove wrongs to the living; methinks the the word itself best expresses the number, neither few-nor-all, A cision almost as numerous, as those of dying man should not think of ob- yet the same. In his Sublime and lappy diffuseness. He is ever varying, sequies, but of ab se quies. Little Beautiful," he has all the perspicuous did I apprehend you would so soon frigid simplicity of the didactic, and in see Tom Stown under a tombstone. his parliamentary speeches all the laxT.P. are no letters in death's alpha-uriant, glowing grandeur of popular har bet; he has not half-a-bit of either advantage. The reader forgets that rangue. This gives his works signal Every thing should put us in mind of death; Physicians assure us, that our very food breeds it in us; so that in our dieting, we may be said to die eating-There is something plated with proud pleasure. The exeominous not only in the name of cution from the specimen afforded will diseases, as di-arhœa, di-abetis, dy- meet universal satisfaction.

he peruses the productions of one man, and is deluded into the belief, that he is gazing at the beauties of BURKE, Anbison, and JoHNSON. An Amer

can edition of these works is contem

ORIGINAL POETRY. &

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FOR THE EMERALD.

THE CHOICE.

* A RHAPSODY.

CONCLUDED.

!

YOUR habitation thus you've shown,
Pray would you love to live alone
For that which in life's common weal
Delightful makes our living blest.
Is a sufficiency genteel-

r Sir, I suppose you know the rest.
How now! muse, art thou out of time,
Why all this hobbling in the rhyme?.
No questions ask your voice so

hoarse

Ruins the thread-of my discourse.
Tho' if for once we think alike.
"Tis love at which you seem to strike.
Dan Pomfret rev'rend bard, declares
He'd not be plagued with household

cares,

He would not have a wife-he vows
A mistress better than a spouse.

With pity--with benevolence.
With sprightly wit and solid sense,
Let judgment all her actions sway,
Mild, cheerful, unreserv'd and gay:
To her I'd all my thoughts unbend,
For in her dwells the faithful friend.
Each shining virtue of the mind: 23
Each moral sentiment refin'd;
Each action done with lovely eage
Each grace that never fails to please,
Each tender tie that can endear,
In her soft manners will appear
Blest with so good, so kind a wife
How smoots would pass the days of life?

Methinks twould add to human joys
To have some prattling girls and boys!
How happy are their harmless courses
Bestriding canes and hobby horses?
As some young wits, that I could name,
Scribbling for literary fame,
Think in their vanity and pride,
The wild Pegassus they bestride,
And drive him at a monstrous course—
While only 'tis their hobby horse.
Woe to the youth, who does maintain,
Such hobby horses of the brain!

But I-O Fortune! choose a wife.
The sweet PALLADIUM of life,
By gracious, all-providing Heaven
To miserable man was given,
Which, while they cordially retain,
All human woes assail in vain.
Internal ills are sooth'd to rest,,
And happy grow the once distrest.
Few in their virtues should be stricter
But stop awhile-I draw her picture.
One, in whose gentle mind, replets,
With virtue, sense and candor meet bibe?, HSUPA LANG
Erom prattling nonsense may she be,
As from dull silence ever free,,
If wisdom is her happy share,
It will decrease the mutual care.
As bees from flowers of every hue
Collect and mix the sweeten'd dew:
So will the fair from nature's law,
Her sound, prodlential maxims draw,
Thy changes, Fortune, always find
ller of content and equid mind;
If in a high or prosp'rous state, a
She's never with overjoy elate an
And when misfortunes intervene invi
It never damps the mind serene ‹
No scandal wounds her neighbors' faine,
No envy seeks their faults to blame, z
But when detractive spight is flung: A
Let silence rest upon her tongues asz
* For that which makes our lives delightful
prove, 423 917

How blest must be a father's share
Who views with a paternal care
His smiling offspring, and is able,
(Like olive plants around his table)·
To see the young ideas shoot,
While education ripes the fruit?
What knowledge all the infant tribe
Would from their mother's breast im-

Hercare would teach the youthful train
To catch the bliss and miss the pain;→
Din business call abroad to roam
Who would not long to be at home
With such a wife who would not prove
The blessings of connubial love
With such a wife was Orpheus blest,

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emancipate a foglish bride
Full many & inan, now link'd by fate
Wishes the Devil had his mate
Ah! what calamitous miscarriage
Happens of fate in modern marriage!
What miseries betide the life is
Of him who meddles with a
Each pulls the thread of life with force,
Each pulls the threat a different course.
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As Time was trayling on the other day, Making his wonted calls upon the way, Quick'ning his pace, he turn'd him to

the wood. n. 143 4 Where Prosper's lofty dwelling stood. Prosper was drinking at his door, When hoary time came clatt'ring at the grate,' [sore; He dropp'd the glass and trembled For Time it seems full oft before

Had knock'd at Prosper's gate. And tho' he'd knock'd, and call'd, and knock'd again,

Yet still he'd knock'd & call'd in vain, But now once more old Time the grat

ing shook;

And now awhile in silence did he wait; At length in anger from his side he took A pow'rful key, the key of Fate

Then to remove the bolts, apply'd With more than mortal strength the , key of Fate, do I He turn'd the key, the bolts flew wide, And furious Time with hasty stride Enter'd at Prosper's gate. And to the wretch, all trembling as he lay,

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The friend you sought and found in

poverty,

You ask'd for wealth, I gave, and when possess'd, Ime You turn'd your thoughts no more on

"It griev'd me sore full many a day This undeserv'd and cold neglect to see Too oft I've stopt upon my way, Fate will admit no more delay, and follow me.

Rise, wretch, He rose, and went, and with an aching

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For the Emeralde

THE EVENING TWILIGHT.
WHEN the horizon dark appears,
And adverse clouds around me lower,
To soothe my sad desponding heart,
I bid thee welcome, placid hour.
When bright the future prospect smiles,
And strews the path with many
flower;

To check the rapt'rous tide of bliss,
I bid thee, welcome, placid hour
When kindred souls together meet,
And Friendship's soft, enliv'ning
power,

Shares the gay smile, or dries the tear;
O then most welcome, placid hour
And still, should sorrow mark my way,
Or pleasure deck my humble bower,
I'll quit with joy, the glare of day,
To hail thee welcome, placid hour.

THE VILLAGE LASS.

Some time since we gave PoLLIO'S MORNING. find no "falling off" in the We hope our readers will

EVENING.i

Now the setting sun behold!

Sweet appears the motlied west, Now the clouds are ting'd with gold, Nature's tawdry dappled vest! Blithsome on each verdant spray, Birds that warble thro' the dell, Answ'ring to each other's lay, Bid the joyful day farewell. Now he sits behind the hill, r Every bird has left the vale, Save the plaintive whippoorwill, Who repeats her mournful tale. Now the soaring nighthawk flies,

Scorns by man to be outdone; He, like Charles, ascends the skies, Twice to see the setting sun. O'er the far extending plain,

Rustic swains begin their dance Empress of the sky to reign,

Now the glow worm's lucid blaze,

See the smiling moon advance!

O'er the distant hill we view, Striving to expand their rays, Emulous to make a shew.

M. Charles in the air-balloon, saw the sun set twice in the same day, (which though no man ever beheld before) any night hawk may see when he chooses.

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