es were pale,
With wonder stood gazing the swains.

She smil'd like a basket of chips,
As tall as a may-pole her size--
As sweet as molasses her lips--
As bright as a button her eyes.

Admiring, I gaz'd on her charm,
My peace that would trouble so soon,
And thought not of danger nor harm,
Any more than the man in the moon.

But now to my sorrow I find
Her heart is as hard as a brick,
To my passion forever unkind,
Though of love I am full as a tick.

I sought her affection to win,
In hope of obtaining relief;
Till I like a hatchet grew thin,
And she, like a haddock, grew deaf.

I late was as fat as a doe,
And playful and spry as a cat;
But now I am as dull as a hoe,
And as lean and as weak as a rat.

Unless the unpitying fates
With passion as ardent will cram her,
As certain as death or as rates,
I soon shall be dead as a hammer.

_Salem Gazette,_ April 5, 1811.

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Gentlemen and children have sometimes been considered bugbears.

Boarders Wanted.

TWO or Three Ladies can be accommodated with Board, on
reasonable terms, in a small family, 18 miles from town,
where there are neither Gentlemen or Children; a Stage
passes the house twice a week, and the Middlesex Canal Boat
near it every other day. Inquire at the Centinel Counting
Room.

_Columbian Centinel,_ July 25, 1812.

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_LIBERAL DONATIONS_

Of the Legislature of _New-York_ to the University of that
State: 1,500l. for the Library; 200l. for chemical
apparatus; 1,200l. for a wall round the College; 5,000l. for
erecting a Hall, and additional wing to the College; 750l.
for five years annually, for the salaries of additional
Professors.--_Blush! Citizens of Massachusetts, for your
Legislators--who have so frequently denied relief to your
University!!!_

_Columbian Centinel,_ May 5, 1792.

The books children read in 1789.

A great Variety of

=Children's Books=

Neatly printed, and adorned with elegant Cuts, are sold by
_T.C. CUSHING_, at the Printing-Office in Salem--viz.

LITTLE ROBIN RED-BREAST.