Thrift, lessons on 344 Transplanting wheat, on 434 Travels, Burckhardt's 469 Tooth, drawing the wrong 475 United States, congress of the 471 ---- ---- square miles of the 474 Vine dressing, near Vevay 25 Village teacher, 41, 83, 123, 163, 203, 241, 286, 322, 403, 443 Vine grape 173 Variety 363 Vineyards at Vevay 295 Watt, James, Life of 32 Whale fisheries 36 Wool, imports of, into England, 74 Wolf bounty 78 Water, preservation of, at sea 116 Writing, legible 150 Webb, Margaret, decease of 156 Wayne, William, decease of ib. Winchell, J. M. decease of ib. Whimsical conflict, 184 West, Benjamin, death of 232 Whale, surprising vigour of a 310 Wild horses and asses, 313 Workmanship, premiums for 313 Waste of life 343 Wooden soaled shoes 175 Whale, Spitzbergen, zoology of the 423 Wonders of nature 452 Wirt, extracts from 461 Whale fishery, Nantucket 470 Wheat, cutting, before it is ripe 472 Yeast, receipt to make 278 POETRY. The aspen tree 118 Song of gratitude ib. The hamlet ib. Verses written after seeing Windsor castle 119 Finland song ib. Quiet mind ib. Moonlight and calm at sea 120 Go, idle lays! ib. The graves of my fathers 157 Auld age ib. Dreadful hard times 158 Winter 159 To ---- ib. Versification from the book of Ruth ib. The peasant and his wife 160 Agriculture ib. Time 198 Winter evening's amusement for Jane and me ib. Youth and old age ib. Cure for trouble ib. Lines inscribed to M. Wiltshire ib. On intemperance ib. Hope ib. To my wife 200 The Icelander's song ib. To the snow drop ib. The soldier's adieu 279 Evening ib. On the return of the new year ib. The fox and the cat 399 Stanzas, from Barton's poems ib. Memory ib. The deaf and dumb boy 237 On man's dependance on his creator ib. Ode to imagination 238 An invocation to poverty 239 Glory to God ib. Prayer and praise to God ib. Hymn to resignation 318 The beau and the bedlamite ib. Silent worship 319 Paddy M'Shane ib. The braes of Yarrow 358 The ivy ib. To a country girl 359 On prayer ib. On the duke of Bridgewater 438 On the kitten ib. An autumnal tale 439 The Cherokee's grave 478 Hope ib. Angler ib. The mother's lament 479 Church Fellowship, ib. THE RURAL MAGAZINE, AND LITERARY EVENING FIRE-SIDE. [Illustration: "VENERATE THE PLOUGH."]