pueri. I only know that under such
discipline our hearts were softened; that we
were, not in this instance only, but by the
hundred and uniformly, tractable and loving,
while the simple piety of the good brothers was
so well recommended to us, that although they
taught no other doctrine than the principles
of Christian uprightness and charity, we
learned as much of truth from them as could
have been communicated even by any
catechism I know—or don't know.

I was a little rascal when I first went to
New Unkrant, because my puerility had been,
at other schools, discouraged and repressed;
the instincts with which I was created, had
been stupidly opposed, and I was diverted
into a condition for which the Creator never
destined me. The liberty of growth
encouraged at New Unkrant may have been
extreme. I think it was not, but I will not
presume to decide upon the point. This
only I have a right to testify, that from
the hard work-days of the world whenever
energies were called for, troubles grew
thick, or temper came to be tried, I have
always looked back with a strong affection
to New Unkrant as the place in which I had
learned the lessons that would help me best.

Yes, that those lessons have been my best
helpers, I am, in my grateful manhood,
sure. When blight was gathering about the
budding faculties, those true-hearted
Moravians blew the blight away: and wretched
indeed might have been the blossom but for
them. You pedagogues, who cut and trim your
children into shape, you know well enough that
if you mend a rosebud with your pen-knives,
you destroy that upon which you cut your
mark. Water the roots, let the wind blow,
and the sun shine, and the rains fall; remove
all that is hurtful, enrich the soil by which
the plant is fed, but let the laws of nature
take their course. If you know well, that
you must act so by a rosebud which you
wish to rear into a healthy blossom, why do
you act with less care in your treatment
of the budding mind and soul?

THE ROVING ENGLISHMAN.

REGULAR TURKS.

IT is commonly said of an Englishman, or
English boy, not easy to deal with in respect
of extremity of temper, that he is a regular
Turk. I have made a few notes of the real,
original, regular Turks, as they appear in
their own country.

Regular Turks have four fasts yearly, and
they keep them with rare good faith. They pray
five times a day, and commence at daybreak.
They are constantly washing themselves, in
the belief that washing purifies their souls;
but the founder of their faith well knew that,
in their hot climate, it is the body which
requires constant purifying. They are bound,
in conscience, to make at least one pilgrimage
to Mecca and Medina; but they frequently
perform the troublesome journey
by deputy, and this is understood to answer
quite as well, and even to be in rather better
taste, than the incurring of unnecessary fatigue.
They abstain from wine,—especially in public
or in the presence of talkative people; and
they are very much given to charities—
particularly with other people's money.

The cadi marries people, and finds it a very
good business. The ceremony is brief, consisting
indeed only of a few words; but it is necessary
they should be pronounced in presence
of credible witnesses. These were often difficult
to find, in a country where truth was seldom
spoken, and every man's lies were of course
notorious enough. Under these circumstances, it
occurred to the green-turbaned descendants of
Mahomet to set up in trade as witnesses,
inasmuch as their respectability was shown to all
men, like a judge's wisdom, by the nature of
their head-dress. These gentry, however, in
process of time, professed to witness so many
things which had never occurred, that the
profession fell into disrepute, and is now
altogether, a mere refuge for decayed noblemen—
like British diplomacy.

Your Regular Turk was allowed four wives;
but he found the practice of maintaining them
in the highest degree inconvenient. They
not only contrived to keep him penniless,
but they made use of their nails upon each
other's faces with such liveliness and ability
that no one of them was ever fit to be seen;
and their determined and noisy hostility was
invariably a scandal to every neighbourhood
in which they lived. Such circumstances
have usually induced gentlemen, even of
the Regular Turk order—notorious for their
love of peace—to confine themselves to one.
The apartments of the other ladies, who have
had, I am sorry to say, nothing to do with the
cadi, depends on the size of the establishment;
for long experience has shown the Turk
that the only way to prevent the ladies of every
condition from tearing each other's eyes out, is
to lock them up in separate apartments.
Vacancies, therefore, in a Turkish harem occur
on the same principle as they happen in
a private lunatic asylum, and depend
altogether upon the empty rooms.

Your Turkish damsel is an odd sort of
body. Quaint, fat, painted, bedizened,
tattooed, and childish; her occupation
consists in eating sweetmeats, and tossing
about her clothes: employments sometimes
varied by dances and songs, not very
delicate.

The children of each lady are brought up
separately, having no communication whatever
with the establishment over the way;
except for the purpose of making themselves
disagreeable to it. Whenever they meet the
opposition, there is usually a stand-up fight, in
the same way as there would be with their
amiable mammas; but a prudent parent
usually prevents the occurrence of any