With food and shelter warm?
No,--see, to shun the cruel snare,
Again he wings the frozen air,
And dies amidst the storm.

How sweeter far it were to see
The bird familiar, fond, and free,
With confidence intrude;--
To see him to the table come,
And hear him sing o'er ev'ry crumb
A song of gratitude.


C. COLE.

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BUYING AND SELLING THE DEVIL.

(_For the Mirror._[3])


"Every thing may be had for money," is an old remark, and perhaps no
less true.

There have been also proverbial sayings of buying and selling the devil;
but that such a traffic was actually ever negociated will appear
incredible. Blount's "Law Dictionary," under _Conventio_, gives an
instance of a sale; it is extracted from the court rolls of the manor of