cannot be intended for threshin I have seen that performed by t men in a barn, beating the corn w their flails, but I never saw any th like this before.

Ex-Perhaps you have not, S it represents the manner of thresh in the East. They used oxen, as ancients did, to beat out their co by trampling upon the sheaves, a dragging after them a clumsy n chine. This machine is not, as in A bia, a stone cylinder, nor a plank w sharp stones, as in Syria; but a s of sledge, consisting of three rolle fitted with irons, which turn up axles. A farmer selects a level s

in his fields, and has his corn carri

er in sheaves, upon asses or edaries. Two oxen are then d in a sledge, a driver gets upon and drives them backwards and ards (rather in a circle) upon the ves, and fresh oxen succeed in oke, from time to time. By this ation, the chaff is very much cut ; the whole is then winnowed, the pure grain thus separated.

Sir, you will please to proceed. enry.-I think my sister had betlo that, as she can explain the ing while I observe the repretion. basnovo bit ban tool gui s. P.-Henry, you are idle; my oblige your brother.ro Jurind iss. P. My brother's inquiries,

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I perceive, have given Mr. Daven an opportunity to change the sc I thought it was the threshing of Araunah; but now I know it t so, for that worthy farmer is her presented meeting king David an servants. He bows himself befor king, with his face to the gro they converse, I imagine, concer the oxen for burnt sacrifice. T and other things did Araunah a king, offer to the king; bu scripture declares, so the scen presents: "David bought the th ing floor and the oxen, and built an altar unto the LORD, and of burnt-offerings and peace-offer so the Lord was intreated for

s. P.-Now, Henry, as your sisreadily obliged you, I think you again try your recollection. noit ister P. (having looked into the ra) replied-No, Mamma, I do now what this is. Sister, peryou do; come, explain it. I you have no objection to oblige brother, especially as it will you another opportunity of dising the knowledge which you assiduously acquired. ido sob s. P.-Henry, I will not allow to make such a reflection; your does not intend to display, but

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Henry. I am ever ready no knowledge Amelia's attention, I may, perhaps, be permitted to s pose, that she feels no great ob tion to the just acknowledgmen her superior powers.

Miss P. smiles, and, looking into Camera, says, my very polite brot you should have described this ap ment of royalty, which if I be greatly mistaken, represents the g old king upon his dying bed. majestic female elegantly atti does obeisance to, and addresses aged monarch,―this I suppos Bathsheba; no sooner has she cluded, than Nathan the prophet ters and the queen retires.-The