From tue Netc- York Mirror. YANKEE SELlFISHNESS,
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Mr l.yinter--I send you, according to promise, dialogue which took place not long since, between myself and a Connec- ticut Farmer. Being on a mineralogical excursion, several miles from home, where had not the misfortune to be very well known, | luckily discovered a mineral by the road side, valuable only to the lover of natural history, contained in a large frag- ment of the rock. Pleased with the dis covery of mineral so rare, left my horse and wagon, and proceeded inme- diately to breaking the fragment in which it was irnbedded, when an angry-visaged farmer drove up. and commenced this sim gulnr confaby thus -1ss egl farmer. How zee du? whatarc you going to dn with that are stone {?

 Myse! - am going to break 1t if pos sible. s O. ts ssssss

 r. What do you want to break it for?

 M In order to load it in my waggonthe easier. v ~ # s..

 F. What use do you expect to put it to ?

 M. Not any in particular I get it for curiosity, merely. s4 ss F. Thatssa likely story to tell me do you know who tl3is stone belongs to

 M. No, Sir but from it's being in the highway Ishould suppose that l belongs to tEe public. 4

 F. Well, I can tell you whose tis Lit ant the public's by a plaguy sight; that stone belongs to me for it was drawedso' my land and if there's any vasfa in it, \ want it myself. ss !; III. What peculiar poytu do you suppose this stone possesses x.

 F. That's question of your own Grin; but if yOn know what vGrtu there is in it, | wish you'd tell mo.

 III. I know of no U0rtn in this stone, more than any other about here.

 x. Il don't believe that. There's sGy- t;nly cartn in it, or you wouldn't be here arter A Cant it be melted down into RoZd, or s;IUer, or something. 4

 M. Why, really; sir, I can't practise de ception and to tell the plain truth, Il think it can 5e melted into Something. ''@

 F. Now by zcunds, I forbid your tak1. a single bit of that stone. &

 Ms By rounds, I shall take away as much as I please.

 F. | tel you, that if you take any of it, | Ell prosecute you. ~. s

 M. Very good butt A the sportsmen say, to trap, the game yos must know where it burrows"

 F. Well, then, where do you live 2 < M. live at home the most of theatime.