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Slngular Custom In Devonshire.
SlNGULAR CUSTOM IN DEVONSHIRE .
THE southern part of Devonshire is remarkable for producing excellent cyder . In order to ensure a good harvest , the following custom is generally observed in that quarter . On the eve of the Epiphany , the farmer and his men take with them a large pitcher of cyder to the orchard , and there circling one of the best trees , they drink the following toast three times : 1 Here's to theeold le-tree '
, app ; Whence thou may ' st bud and whence thou may ' st blow I And whence thou may ' st bear apples enow ! Hats full 1 Caps full ! "Bushel—bushel—sacks full ! And my pockets full too ! Huzza , huzza , huzzal ' This donethey return to the housethe doors of which are fastened
, , by the women , who are inexorable to all entreaties to open them , till one of the men has guessed what is on the spit , which is generally ' tome nice thing difficult to be hit on , and is the reward of him who names it first . Some are so superstitious as to believe , that if they neglect , this custom , the trees will bear no apples that year . w .
West India Cruelty.
WEST INDIA CRUELTY .
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A YOUNG lady , and one of the handsomest in the island , gave a ¦ *^ - grand dinner . Furious at seeing a dish of pasty brought to the table overdone , she ordered her negro cook to be seized , and thrown into tbe own , yet glowing ivitb heat !—and this horrible Megaera , this infernal fiend , whom public execration ought to drive with every mark of abhorrence from society—this worth y rival of the too famous ChaperonIs followed and admired—for she is rich and beautiful !
, So much for what I have heard , and now for what I have seen . The day after my return , I was walking before the casa of a planter with one of his nei g hbours , when we overheard him bid a negro go into the enclosure of this very neighbour , pull up two young trees which he pointed out to him , and replant them immediately in a terrace he was forming . The negro went : the neig hbour followed
him , surprized him in the fact , and brought him to his master . Conceive , Sir , what passed in my mind , when , on the complaint of the neighbour , I heard the master coldly order another of his negroei to tie the pretended culprit to a ladder , and g ive him an hundred lashes , ' We were both of us struck' with such astonishment , thatstupifiedpaleand shudderingwhile the unhappy negro
re-, , , , ceived the barbarous chastisement in silence , we looked at one another without being able to utter a single word . And' he who thus punished his own crime on the blind instrument of his will is here one of the first organs of the law , the official proteftor of innocence 1
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Slngular Custom In Devonshire.
SlNGULAR CUSTOM IN DEVONSHIRE .
THE southern part of Devonshire is remarkable for producing excellent cyder . In order to ensure a good harvest , the following custom is generally observed in that quarter . On the eve of the Epiphany , the farmer and his men take with them a large pitcher of cyder to the orchard , and there circling one of the best trees , they drink the following toast three times : 1 Here's to theeold le-tree '
, app ; Whence thou may ' st bud and whence thou may ' st blow I And whence thou may ' st bear apples enow ! Hats full 1 Caps full ! "Bushel—bushel—sacks full ! And my pockets full too ! Huzza , huzza , huzzal ' This donethey return to the housethe doors of which are fastened
, , by the women , who are inexorable to all entreaties to open them , till one of the men has guessed what is on the spit , which is generally ' tome nice thing difficult to be hit on , and is the reward of him who names it first . Some are so superstitious as to believe , that if they neglect , this custom , the trees will bear no apples that year . w .
West India Cruelty.
WEST INDIA CRUELTY .
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A YOUNG lady , and one of the handsomest in the island , gave a ¦ *^ - grand dinner . Furious at seeing a dish of pasty brought to the table overdone , she ordered her negro cook to be seized , and thrown into tbe own , yet glowing ivitb heat !—and this horrible Megaera , this infernal fiend , whom public execration ought to drive with every mark of abhorrence from society—this worth y rival of the too famous ChaperonIs followed and admired—for she is rich and beautiful !
, So much for what I have heard , and now for what I have seen . The day after my return , I was walking before the casa of a planter with one of his nei g hbours , when we overheard him bid a negro go into the enclosure of this very neighbour , pull up two young trees which he pointed out to him , and replant them immediately in a terrace he was forming . The negro went : the neig hbour followed
him , surprized him in the fact , and brought him to his master . Conceive , Sir , what passed in my mind , when , on the complaint of the neighbour , I heard the master coldly order another of his negroei to tie the pretended culprit to a ladder , and g ive him an hundred lashes , ' We were both of us struck' with such astonishment , thatstupifiedpaleand shudderingwhile the unhappy negro
re-, , , , ceived the barbarous chastisement in silence , we looked at one another without being able to utter a single word . And' he who thus punished his own crime on the blind instrument of his will is here one of the first organs of the law , the official proteftor of innocence 1