Poetry: Larceny

Thcy say n chap wHo stoals II is m-ighbor'a heus and sheop, If cannlit in season, fcels Remurkably dog cheap. I wonder how they fecl Who rifrk the larger "do;" Wlio lomp the crime, and steal The imple neighbor too. T!n:y cali it cliivalry, Tiiis wlmlesale sort of thefi,- This nuble tliieveiy, Where not a cnimb is left. Tljey teil lis that n man Grows grrander than a Turk, By straling on this plan, And quite too proud lo work. A lüy-fingered man! Ashomed lo black iiis boots! Can he feol o', her tiian The meaueta of all coots? Why, yes, by every mcans; Ile looks with scorn on us, Steala bacon, pork ond beons, And playa the generous! He scorn8 the vulrrnr wight Wno does one honest tfiing; Ho teal hy !egaI right," Of larccncy the king!Tvvo bundred ycars „g0, ,he vice of drunk. enness was even moro prevalent tlian it is now. Ir. a disscussion o ihe eubject in the British Parlimont, i1e Bishop of SaKsburv -BtBled that ia one. street in Lotidon, a board was put p witü thefollowing inscr.ption: Wou may gét drunk here tor one pennvi dead. drunk, for penny, and have clean atraw fot noOiing." ; - ■ - ' - 2140 dwelling houses have been erected in "Boston within a year, and a larger number witbin four mjlea of the Stcte IJouce, out of Lbe city!