sing.

_May._

To walk Five Miles in his own Farm,
Will do a Husbandman no harm.

_June._

Now Countrymen each Sun shine day,
Mow down their Grass, and make it hay.

_July._

If Mildew now blasts English Grain,
'Twill make poor Husbandmen complain.

_August._

But if from Blasting it be free,
The Farmers then should thankful be.

_September._

The Leaves from Trees now fall away,
And sweetest Flowers do decay.

_October._

If Barns are full, though Fields be empty,
It doth prognosticate a plenty.

_November._

One day this Month each Fruitful year,
Give thanks to GOD, and Eat good chear.

_December._

The Weather now 'gins to be cold,
Which makes to shrink both young and old.

* * * * *

SATURDAY, DEC'R 24, 1853.

The Salem Observer.

ANOTHER OLD ALMANACK. In our last we gave an account of an
old Almanack for the year 1703. Since then we have seen
another some sixteen years older, printed for the year 1687.
It was bound in with an old account book that formerly
belonged to the Rev. Thomas Barnard, a minister of Andover,
from 1682 to 1718,--the great-grandfather of the Rev. Thomas
Barnard, D.D., the first minister of the North Church in
this city, who died Oct. 1, 1814, in the sixty-seventh year
of his age, also an ancestor of Capt. Edward Barnard, of
this city. We insert the title page and other extracts
therefrom, which we trust will impart the same interest to
our readers as we derived from its perusal.

It is prefaced by the following:

Novemb. 24th, 1686. I have Perused the Copy of an Almanack
for the Ensuing Year, Composed by John Tulley, and find
nothing in it contrary to His Majesties Laws, and therefore
Allow it to be Printed, and Published by Benjamin Harris,
Book-Seller in Boston.

EDWARD RANDOLPH, Secr.

The following is the title:

Tully 1687. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord MDCLXXXVII.
Being the third after Leap-year, and from the Creation 5636.
The Vulgar Notes of which are Prime 16--Epact 26--Circle of
the [Symbol: Sun] 16--Domin: Letter B. U