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ORIGIN OF THE WORD FARM.

Spelman derives this word from the Saxon term _fearme_, or
_feorme_, which signifies _victus_, food, or _provision_, as
the tenants and country people anciently paid their rents in victuals and
other necessaries of life, but which was afterwards converted into the
payment of certain sums of money. Hence a _ferm_ was originally a
place which furnished or supplied its owner or lord with provisions.

P.T.W.

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At an inn in a market town upon the road to Holyhead, a gentleman sat in
the kitchen smoking his pipe, and watching with anxiety a fowl that was
roasting for his supper. At length a tall, meagre figure stalked in, and
after an earnest and melancholy look at the fowl, retired with a sigh.
Repeating his visit he exclaimed, "That fowl will never be done in time."
"What do you mean?" said the gentleman, "that fowl is for my supper, and
you shan't touch a bit of it." "Oh," replied the other, "you misunderstand
me; I don't want the fowl; but I am to play _Oroonoko_ this evening,
and we cannot begin for want of the _jack chain_."

C.C.

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THOMAS PAINE.

When Paine's "Rights of Man," reached Lewes, where he married a Miss Olive,
the women as with one voice, said, "Od rot im, let im come ear if he dast,
an we'll tell him what the Rights of Women is; we'll toss im in a blanket,
and ring im out of Lewes wi our frying pans."--_Cheetham's Life of
Paine_.

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EPIGRAM.

Ah, Lucy, 'twas a roguish thought That kindled up that rosy hue; True,
'twas a roguish thought, for I, Thought none so great a rogue as
_you_.

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