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i roi:i'KV. I Tin: WEAVERS, AS at tUe:f w »rk I wo Weaver* f.u, iK'.'-'Ml'n^timc with Iticitdly chat* They totichM ujwntKc price-of mcaSi Sm hiVh a weaver fcatce a.uUl cat- * Wb.u ft'iffc mv brats ant) fickly wife/ QniMh Dick,1 PoiaJmoft tfr'd of life ; So haid rny work, lb poor p>y t'.nv, 9Th more than rnnital man can bear. 4 Howglotiow »the rich man's Ante ! I-Tis haufe fo fine ! his wealth fa gritt ! Heaven is m.jwll you mull ajjrtr, Why all to lum ? Why none to me ? 4 In fpi'cof what the Scripturetc3chc3f in I'pi'ic of all the Parfon preaches. This world (indeed I've though! lb long) la rul'J, methinks, exticrr.ely wiong. * Wher.'cv I took,tio#e*ci I range, Tis all eonfiisMi and hard, and It range; The good are troubled and opprefs'd, And all the wicked arc the bklsM/ Quolli John, * Our ipnVance isthccatjfe Whv the* "'<-* blame oar Maker's laws; Pan vfbis T.vy/ alote we ktinw, :Tis ail that man can fee l>clo\\\ * Rcc'fi thou tint carpet, not half none, A\*li:eh ihou, de-r D»ek. ha't jult begun ? T/chcid the \k\\\ conftlfiofl there. So rude the ttafsit makci one Hare : * A (trigger, ignorant of the trade, Would &}' np meaning there Ctrlivcy'd ; For whe-rt'sthe middle* wttfrc's the bolder? The carpet new U all diforder.1 Quo:.i D>ck| * My work is yd m bus, But ilJ'l in every part ft fiti ; DrhJes von reafon like a lout, Why man, that carpet's\njldc out.9 Says Ji. hni * Thou fay's the thing I mean, ,\nd now 1 hope to cure thy fplceii ; This uoild, wldeh clouds thy fotil wah doubt, Is but a r.:;y\/ hfitle out. * As when we view tbefe fl;:cds and ends, We know not what the whv le intends : 5 1 when on ear:h tilings look but odd. They're working tlill fume fchemc of God. 1 No plan, no pattern c?.n vc tne% All wants proportion^ truth and grace ; The tnotly mixture wc deride, Noi ice the beauteous upper !;dc. 4 B:t w!icn we reach thr.t world oflfght, And view the works of Cod gtfght^ Then (hall we fee the whole defign, And cwn the woikman is divine. 1 What now feem random (Irokca, will there All cder and defign appear ; Tii-n fh*H wepraife what hefx n*e fpm<i\], l\n iheii the oJ»^: -tiv.. /* ium\L' * Thou'rt tight,' quoth Dick, c no more I'll grumble That this fad world's fo Orange a jumble, My impious doubts are put to flight, For mr own Carpet fets me right ' MISCELLANY. For the Kingston Gazettl. RECKONER-----No. 53. TO THE AECKOXrA'. 111 AYE been married only fix months, but iniiead of enjoying that uninterrupted felicity which I had anticipated, I find it marred and lometimes poifoned from a caufe totally unexpected, not that 1 have any reafon to complain of my huiband, who allows me to take my own way, but fervants, fervants, dear Mr. Reckoner, are an eternal vexation. I was accuf- tomed to hear ladies talk of the difficulty of houfekecping, and the trouble of fervants, but this I thought merely a ftanding topic of converfation, which was intro¬ duced when drefs and fcandal had b$en exhaufted. My great with at that time was to have a houfe to keep. 1 fhall eafily manage my people, thought I, nobody (hall be troubled with my complaints.— "Well Sir, we began our career ^ ith 2 French woman, who had a family in town, faid to be an ex¬ cellent cook, and things appeared j fe be getting, on very «el!. but k poor W™J™£^ the courie of one month wc con- intent rf ta •*. uho, W'L. lumed feven hundred weight of beef,five calves, three ilieep, nine turkies, twelve gccle, and a barrel Croceries dii- Thinh- aiul a half of pork appeared in proportion in"- the woman verv boned I had sdingly n ev¬ ert helcfi mie of the molt ordinary creatures vou ever law—tin■; made their contentious the more luiu- crous. As they were both exccl- at table, aRonifhed, Mr. Reckoner, that"! could not i'peak—After recover¬ ing myfelf, I called my liufbar.d who very ibon fliewed her the door. I now determined to get a ^ond country girl, and as I knew ibme- jvcVer ....... locked up any tiling, indeed 1 thought it evinced too mueJi ot a fufpicious difpolition to be han¬ ding out provilions, kc. to the people about you. My huiband is not much difpofed to trouble himfclf, yet he got alarmed at the demands made upon his purie, <n: tlio1 I am much inclined to live cafy, Hill this confumption dag¬ gered me a good deal. On con- iulting lbme of my experienced acquaintances, they told me that we had been robbed. There ap¬ pears no wade about the kitchen. You arc a young houfekceper, faid one of my counfcllors, and you mud look fharper after your cook —things may difappear without being waded in the houfe. I drea- mcdall night of robberies, and go* up at nine o'clock, an hour (bon¬ er than ulual, determined to fearcli the matter to the bottom, 'fix. beef is out, Madam, faid the cook, and this is the laft piece of butter in the tub. Some Umc after I fear, her into fekg eelhr fas ftmc pork, and faw her bring up jull the piece I wantctl. She had only one piece. The woman is honed, thought I, yet fom'e little fuipicion remained. She went out on an errand in a few miviutcs, and I took tliis opportunity of examin¬ ing the kitchen-cupboard, for I was afhamed to do it in her prcf- ence—anil there I found a box with twenty-nine candles, half a loaf of lugar, a pound of tea, an excellent piece of bc<T, a large lump of butter, and three choice pieces of pork. I retired befcre iVIarffC- ry returned, and lVv a boy in the twilight carry oil the box. My huiband and I then held a eoniul- tation—Shall we put the wretch in jail or not. We are newly mar¬ ried, faid I, and paying for our ex¬ perience, let the creature go. We called her in, paid fiw r fsv 1' .- i.'mtw ihc had been with us, and (!:Vmil- fed licr with fomc grid advice, of which die will be nothing the bet¬ ter. We were two days before we could get any one to fupply her place, which appeared an age, f< ■>• 1 have no great i *>.clination to la¬ bor, and I was almod ready to wifh for Margery again. We were obliged to hire a wo¬ man with two youngs children. If- abel was no great cook, and had no command over her boys, who were always bawling or breaking whatever came, in their way. The houfe during her day was like Bed¬ lam, & becaufe my huiband threa¬ tened to chadifc the brats for' their noife and infolence, the mother left us at the end of the month. We next hired a man and his wife, faid to be mod excellent fervants, if kept trom liquor. But it was not an cafy matter fo to keep tiiem —they were fure to get drunk as often as I forgot to lock the fide- board, and at fuch times they quar- elled mod furioufly. Thefe con- teds, which commonly ended in blows, boded no good to our kitch¬ en furniture, the greater part of which was broken or injured.— You can calily conceive the pretty entertainment we had of an eve¬ ning, to hear thefe two perfons vomiting out the mod bitter re¬ proaches, and profane oaths. The lent cooks, and waiters we determined to give a din- thing of cooking myfelf, to direct tier to our friends, "and invited her how to proceed—I hoped to a numerous party. My hail- band undertook to keep them from rum, their favorite liquor. Matters appeared to proceed bet¬ ter than wc had expected—all the different dime's werealmoft ready, and both very fobcr. It was a- grced that I mould ring the bell when 1 wiflied the dinner to be difhed, Sncl placed on the table, & I returned to my company, which had nearly all affembled, plcafed find her without vice and willing & with the profpecr. of a comfortabl dinner. I rang the bell and won¬ dered that I heard no i'dr, after waiting much longer than was nc- ci'lViry, I depped into the kitchen, where I found my two fervants, ly • ingin different corncrsdead drnr;k. A goofe had one of its fides burnt black—a piece of road beef was fpoilcd—a line Jifli duck to the bottom of the pot, &c. &c. eVc. I need not dwell upon the ridicu- Sous figure wc made in the eyes of our friends—I cried with vexation. V.y kv.ibar.d turned the matter off with a joke, fen* for two fervants from a neighbor, turned our own to learn—But I have no great rel. fon to rejoice, I found her awk ward beyond ex predion—die could neither walh a wine glafs-, nor tum¬ bler. I have fliewed her how to v/ax the tables a dozen of times, b"it flie can do k no better than at fird. She breaks every thin" die touches. lea», faid I, veftei- day, take care a* that beautiful punch bowl—I had hardly fpoken the word, when the dropt it op. the fide of the pot the had been wafhing it in. At another time die placed a large China diiii on the corner of the table nearly half od'. and turning quickly her rump caught if and 1 tirew it on the Hoof *-**< Bieis me !" faid Jean, as fhc looked at the fragments, » bow came it to fall."—Some ladies were lately to'fpend the evening; with me, and 1 w as anxious ."-o ex¬ hibit my new let e»f China, which had jutt arrive;?, and was thought b\ all exceedingly hane'i'i:.^. [*-. • r. prevent any poflibility or aceiocm, 5 had placed it on the tcaboard into the Potatoe cellar, and eontri- myfelf, but Jean in putting it on -7cd fome how or other to pals a the table left the greater part of the ierver unlbpported—ana on taking away her hands down rime the whole Iinaihed into a thouftnd pieces. This forenoon fee told me that our larged pot had crack¬ ed—" How did that happen :"— " I don't know, Mern, I put it on empty, ther dept to the well for a l*ttle water, and the moment I poured a paii full into it, there was a noife like a cannon, and the wa¬ ter came out on both fide;." We have hardly a plate or wine glafe left, and if 1 turn the rirl away,I do not know where to cret anoth- er. She is good-natured and wil¬ ling, but io dull that (he has nev¬ er improved. Suchy Mr. Recta- «..., :. ,.... .!.\n,, v o\< itOviiCiitcpuifi for the lirfu fix months,. anclyoS can judge how much thefe vexa- t very pJeafunt afternoon. Onr next fervant was a mod pcrfeet temped—never in good hu¬ mor, never plcafed—continually working as- it were in fpite, but flic could work well.—One hot morning in July we Were nearly futfocated in getting up by a molt naufeous fmell. Wc looked out at every window, fearched the room to find ,:>ut whence it pro¬ ceeded, but in vain. At length I went down into the kitchen and difcovcrcd our cook boiiins all the bones and fragments of trreafc, which had been collecting for dime time pad in order to ■■make foap. It was her perquilitc me faid. Nc- ""."■ i/l'.V.:' it . \L: Vitiit, iti,-.. • .0., .1 .. ,. .i.] .,. .4 inable dnell, 1 could not keep my temper, I commanded her to take the pot and its contents out or doorsj.fhe refn-fed, and I difcharg- ed heron thefpot—it wa-s ten days before the fmell could be eradica¬ ted. Wc now hired a fmirt Ameri¬ can girl, clean and neat in her per- fon. She knew-little of cookery, and feemed at times too pert, but die was clever and would quick- get angry with them, nor lie; ly learn. I rsmarkei indeed a fa¬ miliar intrufiye manner, which was very difplealiag, and an eager delirc to be noticed by ftrangcrs, but I thought tiiis impertinence would wear off. Having occalion to call herfcnuant9 ihc bridled up, told me die was no fervaut, but a Betp* Next day wc had fome flrangers dining with us—and jud as the fervant boy announced din¬ ner, who fhcmld appear but our cook, drcded up in her fined clothes, with her face ihining with fweat hailily wiped, and red with the fire. " Where arc you going, Betfey"—faidl—itepping into the dming room to fee bow the difhes were placed, before the company appeared "'" the minx, 1 muu mint up ning here when there is company —it does not fignify when you arc alone, I would then fe-oner dine in the kitchen/*—J was fo much ions abridge our happinefs. And what. Sir, irritates me more than all the reft, my huiband never fecms to feci mortified, he laugfi at the fervants and at my com- plaints. To be fure, he never takes their part againd me, nor heiitates a moment about difmiliing them, when I defire it—but he will not ;ir with patience my lamentations. He fays fuch little erodings give 2 zed to life. He has even written a poetical certificate for the foap boiler, and threatens to draw a picture of my rueful countenance, at the moment that I was looking on our two drunk fervants—In fine it is as vexatious to fee him io cafy, when in my opinion he ought to be out of humor, as to direct Jeoaa for the fiftieth time how to wafii a tumbler* Yours, TESTITIA Gafli paid for clean Cotton St Linj-k RAGS at this Office. ed—«Tq dinner/* replied nx, u I nuift inliil upon du Printed and Ptd.Hsbsd Bv STEPHEN MILES, A few doors Ea^t of WaVkto's HotA Price fifteen jl>h'lings permm*—$*• in advance $Sr infix months> and $s. at the end of M year-—Exdufnv of fijlg%