And (be the tempter maid or wife) Then comes Reflection, sober power, -Deceitful woman charms no ́more, WOMAN, to harm and to annoy, The source of every tear, and every joy! UNITED EFFORTS OF A PEDESTRIAN AND A HORSE. At Chelmsford in Essex, in 1818, Mr. Ives, a resident, and a mare, belonging to Mr. Crooks, jun. sheep-dealer, also of Chelmsford, commenced the extraordinary undertaking of performing 200 miles in twenty-four hours. The mare and the pedestrian started at a quarter past one o'clock from the Red Lion, at Springfield; the former travelling six miles, and the latter one mile on the Colchester road. The mare performed sixty miles by ten o'clock at night, when she was taken into the stable and rested for four hours, after which she resumed her task, and had completed 132 miles by 43 minutes past 12 o'clock next day. The pedestrian, in the course of the night, rested three hours, and by half-past 12 o'clock the next day had made good seventy miles, which added to those performed by the mare, made 202 miles in twenty-three hours and twenty eight minutes, leaving thirty-two minutes to spare, and two miles over. The mare was led throughout her journeys by the proprietor and some of his friends, who occasionally relieved each other; and at the termination of her performance, appeared but very little, if at all, distressed, considering the extraordinary number of miles she had travelled. The pedestrian accomplished his part with apparent ease, and there is no doubt that they could have effected some miles in addition within the given time. Thousands persons witnessed the result of this match against time, and at the conclusion the victors were escorted into Chelmsford by a considerable body of horsemen and a band of music. of ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND FOWLS, SPORTING, RACES, &c. AMONG THE AFGHAUNS. By the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. The distant and extensive kingdom of Caubul, bounded on the east by Hindostan, on the south by the Persian gulf, and on the west by a desert, contains some animals apparently of a species distinct from those of other parts. The dogs, the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, in his account of that kingdom, remarks, deserves to be mentioned. The greyhounds are excellent; they are bred in great numbers, particularly among the pastoral tribes, who are most attached to hunting. Pointers resembling our own in shape and quality, are by no means uncommon, and are called khundee. A longhaired species of cats, called boorank, are exported in great numbers, and are every where called Persian cats. There are two or three sorts of eagles, and many kinds of hawks, among which is the gentle falcon, the best of all; the large gray shortwinged bird, called bauz in Persian, and kuzzil in Turkish, is thought to be the goss-hawk. The shauheen is taught to soar over the falconer's head, and strike the quarry as it rises. The chirk is taught to strike the antelope, fasten on its head, and retard it till the greyhounds come up. Herons, cranes, and storks, are common, and also a bird, called cupk by the Persians and Afghauns, and the hill chicore, by the Indians, but which is known in Europe by the name of the Greek partridge. A smaller bird, called soosee, it is said, has never been heard of but among the Afghauns. The favourite amusement of these people is the chase, which is followed in various modes, according to the nature of the country, and the game to be pursued. Large parties often assemble on horseback or on foot, and form a crescent, which, sweeping the country to a very great extent, is sure to rouse whatever game may be in their range. They manage so as to drive it into a valley, or some other convenient place, when they close in, and fall upon it with their dogs and their guns. Still more frequently a few men go out together, with their greyhounds and their guns, to course hares, foxes, and deer, or shoot any game that may fall in their way. In some parts of the country they take hares, or perhaps rabbits, with ferrets. Their mode of shooting deer is by stalking bullocks and camels, trained to walk between them and the game, so as to conceal the hunter. In winter they track wolves and other wild animals in the snow, and shoot them in their dens. In some places they dig a hole in the ground near the spring, and conceal themselves there to shoot the deer and cher animals that come there at night to drink. They also go out at night to shoot hyænas, which then issue from their dens and prowl about for their prey. They never shoot birds flying, but fire at them with small shot as they are sitting or running along the ground. They have no hawking, except in the east; but often ride down partridges in a way which is much easier of execution than one would imagine. Two or more horsemen put up a partridge, which makes a short fly and sits down ; a horseman then puts it up again, and the hunters relieve one another so as to allow the bird no rest till it becomes too tired to fly, when they ride over it as it runs, or knock it down with sticks. Races are not uncommon, especially at marriages the bridegroom gives a camel to be run for; twenty or thirty horses start, and they run for ten or twelve miles over the best ground they can find. With the better sort, it is a common amusement to tilt with their lances in the rest, at a wooden peg stuck in the ground, which they endeavour knock over, or to pick up on the point of their spears. They also practise their carbines and matchlocks on horseback; and all ranks fire at marks with guns, or with bows and arrows. They shoot for some stake; commonly for a dinner; but never for a large sum of money. The great delight of all the western Afghauns is to dance the attam or ghoomboor. From ten to twenty men or women stand up in a circle, (in summer before their houses and tents, and in winter round a fire,) a person stands within the circle to sing and play on some instrument. The dancers go through a number of attitudes and figures, shouting, clapping their hands, and snapping their fingers. Every now and then they join hands and move slow or fast, according to the music, all joining in chorus. Most of their games appeared to the English very childish, and can scarcely be reconciled to their long beards and grave behaviour. Marbles are played by grown up men through all the Afghaun country and Persia. A game generally played, is one called khogsye by the Dooraunces, and cabuddee by the Tanjcks. A man takes his left foot in his right hand and hops about on one leg, endeavouring to overset his |