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A REMEDY AGAINST CURTAIN LECTURES.-A few nights ago, Black, who had been out, on going

A SHARPER." Sonny, where is your father ?" home late, borrowed an umbrella; and when "Father's dead, sir."

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MORAL SUASION ON A RAM.-When a friend of, with this old fellow, and the consequence was, ours, whom we call Agricola, was a boy, he lived that the dog never looked a sheep in the face on a farm in Berkshire county, the owner of again. The ram broke every bone in his body, which was troubled by his dog Wolf. The cur literally. Wonderfully uplifted was the ram killed his sheep, knowing, perhaps, that his master aforesaid, by his exploit; his insolence became was conscientiously opposed to capital punish- intolerable; he was sure to pitch into whomsoever ment, and he could devise no means to prevent it. "I can break him of it," said Agricola, "if you will give me leave."

"Thou art permitted," said the honest farmer; and we will let Agricola tell the story in his own words.

"There was a ram on the farm," said Agricola, "as notorious for butting as Wolf was for sheep killing, and who stood in as much need of moral suasion as the dog. I shut Wolf up in the barn

went nigh him. 'I'll fix him,' said I, and so I did. I rigged an iron crow-bar out of a hole in the barn, point foremost, and hung an old hat on the end of it. You can't always tell, when you see a hat, whether there is a head in it or not; how, then, should a ram? Aries made at it full butt, and being a good marksman from long practice, the bar broke in between his horns, and came out under his tail. This little admonition effectually cured him of butting."

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The gentlest task-master we ever knew of is a blacksmith, who says every evening to his apprentices, "Come, boys, let us leave off work and go to sawing wood." That blacksmith must be a brother of a farmer down east, who one season, when he was building a house, used to try to get his hired men out to play dig cellar by moonlight.

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"I am unable," yonder beggar cries,
"To stand or go." If he says true, he lies.

If you don't want to fall in love with a girl, don't commence flirting with her. This courting for fun is like boxing for fun; you put on your gloves in perfect good humor, with the most friendly intention of exchanging a few amicable blows; you find yourself insensibly When Haddix's wife kicked him out of warmed with the enthusiasm of the conflict, until bed, says he: "See here, neow! you'd better not some unlucky punch in the "veskit" decides the do that again! If you do, it might cause cool-matter, and the whole affair ends in a downright fight. Don't you see the similarity?

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