THE GATHERER.

A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
SHAKSPEARE.

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Vivian Grey pronounces school ushers execrable wretches, because they wear
pepper and salt pantaloons; Lady Morgan improves upon him, declaring the
man who wears a white waistcoat in the morning, or the woman who curtsies
at a drawing-room door, out of the pale of society. It is surprising that
people will write such rubbish as this--more surprising that others will
print it-- most surprising that folks buy it--and as Cobbett would say,
what surprises us "most of all," is that people read it.

Q.

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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