How dare you say, to gull the flats, Well, one, you slanderer, why say that? ""Twas Taylor told me so," said Bob. He sought his mother-"Oh! mother, mother, You said I ate a hare-folks blab it." 'I didn't," said she,“I said a rabbit.” "And that's not true!" "It is," said she, 66 For your own wife told it to me." "My wife" says Tim-" Then 'tis a bouncer, With flashing eye and visage wild, "Wife! you have no love for your soul, To say "And so you did," ""Tis false," he cried, Tim ope'd his eyes with wild surprise, "Good gracious, how folks STRETCH IT!” THE LIGHTKEEPER'S DAUGHTER.--MYRA A. GOODWIN. The pale moon hid her face; the glittering stars The ocean leaped and swayed his long white arms Up in the darkness with a sullen roar. Across the heavy gloom of night there came The faint light from the tower, and when the moon Against the angry sky The lighthouse stood, whose beacon light foretold The danger to bold ships that neared the rocks While daylight slept. In the tower by the sea, there, all alone, The keeper's pretty daughter trimmed the lamp. "God save the sailors on the sea," she prayed; Are rocks which vessels wreck when storms are high; I will not sleep, but watch beside the light, For some may call for help.” And so she sat A muffled sound Trembles upon the air, above the storm; Ah, no! Ah, no! Her inmost soul, with anguish stirred, sobs out, Her strong arms, nerved by heart long trained Conquers in spite of warring elements; The boat is launched; one instant does she pause And lift her soul in prayer. 'Tis silent, But angels hear, and bear it on their wings To the All-Father, and the strength comes down. The wind howls loud; the cruel, sullen waves Unheeding all except one thought, one hope. Upon the shore the fishers' wives knelt down Strong men were not afraid of tears, which fell THE TWO GLASSES. There sat two glasses filled to the brim, One was ruddy and red as blood, And one as clear as the crystal flood. Said the glass of wine to the paler brother: From the heads of kings I have torn the crown, I have taken virtue and given shame; I have tempted the youth with a sip, a taste Greater, far greater than king am I, By my crystal drops, made light and glad; Of thirsts I've quenched, of brows I've laved, Of hands I have cooled, and souls I have saved; I have leaped through the valley, dashed down the mountain, I have eased the hot forehead of fever and pain; I have made the parched meadows grow fertile with grain; I can tell of the powerful wheel of the mill, That ground out the flour and turned at my will. I can tell of manhood debased by you, THE NOBLE NATURE.-BEN JONSON. It is not growing like a tree Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night,- MR. O'HOOLAHAN'S MISTAKE. An amusing scene occurred in Justice Young's court-room an evening or two since. Two sons of the "ould sod," full of "chain-lightning" and law, rushed in, and, advancing to the justice's little law-pulpit at the rear of the court-room, both began talking at once. "One at a time, if you please," said the judge. "Judge-yer-honor--will I sphake thin?" said one of the men. "Silence!" roared his companion. "I am here! Let me talk! Phwat do you know about law ?" "Keep still yourself, sir,” said the judge. “Let him say what he wants." "Well, I want me naime aff the paiper. That's phwat I want," said the man. "Off what paper?" said the judge. "Well, aff the paiper: ye ought to know what paiper. Sure, ye married me, they say." "To whom?" asked the judge. "Some female, sir; and I don't want her, sir. It don't go! and I want me naime aff the paiper." "Silence!" roared the friend, bringing his huge fist down upon the little pulpit, just under the judge's nose, with a tremendous thwack. "Silence! I am here. Phwat do you know about law? Sure, yer honor, it was Tim McCloskey's wife that he married--his widdy, I mane. You married thim, yer honor." "And I was dhrunk at the time, sir. Yis, sir; an' I was not a free aigent; an' I don't know a thing about it, sir-do ye see? I want me naime aff the paiper-I repudiate, sir." "Silence! Let me spake. Phwat do you know about law?" bringing his fist down upon the judge's desk. "But I was dhrunk: I was not at the time a free aigent." "Silence! I am here to spake. It does not depind on that at all. It depinds-and there is the whole pint, both in law and equity-it depinds whether was the woman a sole thrader or not at the time this marriage was solemnated. That is the pint, both in law and equity!" |