JohN PiERpoNt, fit a clever and witty poem, delivered at the centennial celebration at Litch field, Conn thus admirably sketches the uni-venal New-England juvenile habit of whittling, and its significance in more ways than one: -

The Yankee boy,before he's sent to school,

Well knows the mysteries of that magic tool,

The pocket knife. To that his wistful eye

Torns, while he hears his mother's lullably;

His-hoarded cents he gladly gives to get it.

He leaves no stone unturned, till he can when it:

And, in-the education of the lad,

No little port that implement hath had.

His pocket knife to the young whittler brings

A growing knowledge of material things.

Projectiles, music, and the sculptor's art',

His chestnut whistle, and his shingle dart,

Hie elder pop-gun with its hickory rod.

Its sharp explosion and rebounding wad,

His cornsinlk fiddle, and the deeper tone,

That murmurs from his pumpkin-leaf trombone,

Conspire to leach the boy. To these succeed

His bow. his arrow of a feathered reed.

His wind-mill, raised the passing breeze to win,

His water-wheel that turns upon a pin;

Or, if his father lives upon the shore,

You'll see his ship. " beam-ends" upon the floor,

Full rigged, with raking must, and timbers staunch,

And waiting, near the wash tni. for a launch.

Thus by his genius and his jack-knife driven,

E're long, he'll solve you any problem given; -

Make any gim-crnek. musical or mule,

A plough, a coach, an-organ or a flute,-

Make you a locomotive or n clock

Cut a canal or build a flouting dock,

Or lead forth Beauty from a marble block;-

Make anything, in short, for sea or shore,

From a child's rattle to a seventy-four: -

Make it, said I? Ay, when he undertakes it

He'll make the tiling, and the machine that makes it.

And. when the thing is made, - -whether it' be

To move on earth, in air, or on the sea.

Whether on water, over the Waves to glide,

Or, upon land,to roll, revolve, or slide ;

Whether to whirl or jur, to strike or ring,

Whether it be a piston or a spring,

Wheel,-pulley;, tube sonorous, wood or bra,

The thing designed shall surety come to pass; -

For when his hand's upon it. you may know,

That there's go in it, and he'll make it go.