Again, when it happened that, wishing to shirk
Some rather unpleasant and arduous work,

I begged her to go to a neighbor,

She wanted to know why I made such a fuss,
And saucily said, "You're a cus

cus

cus

You were always ac-cus-tomed to labor!"

Out of temper at last with the insolent dame,
And feeling that madame was greatly to blame
To scold me instead of caressing,

I mimicked her speech — like a churl that I am
And angrily said, "You're a dam-dam-dam
A dam-age instead of a blessing!'

JOHN GODFREY SAXE.

too Great a Sacrifice.

'HE maid, as by the papers doth appear,

THE

Whom fifty thousand dollars made so dear,

To test Lothario's passion, simply said:

"Forego the weed before we go to wed.

For smoke take flame; I'll be that flame's bright fanner:

To have your Anna, give up your Havana."

But he, when thus she brought him to the scratch, Lit his cigar, and threw away his match.

ANONYMOUS.

The Ballad of Hiram Hover.'

AFTER J G- W

WHERE the Moosatockmaguntic

Pours its waters in the Skuntic,

Met, along the forest-side,
Hiram Hover, Huldah Hyde.

She, a maiden fair and dapper,
He, a red-haired, stalwart trapper,
Hunting beaver, mink, and skunk,
In the woodlands of Squeedunk.

She, Pentucket's pensive daughter,
Walked beside the Skuntic water,
Gathering, in her apron wet,
Snakeroot, mint, and bouncing-bet.

Why," he murmured, loath to leave her,

"Gather yarbs for chills and fever,

When a lovyer, bold and true,

Only waits to gather you?"

I "The Echo Club."

"Go," she answered, “I'm not hasty; I prefer a man more tasty:

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Leastways, one to please me well
Should not have a beasty smell."

Haughty Huldah!" Hiram answered; "Mind and heart alike are cancered: Jest look here! these peltries give Cash, wherefrom a pair may live.

“I, you think, am but a vagrant, Trapping beasts by no means fragrant;

Yet I'm sure it's worth a thank —

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I've a handsome sum in bank."

Turned and vanished Hiram Hover;
And before the year was over,

Huldah, with the yarbs she sold,
Bought a cape, against the cold.

Black and thick the furry cape was;
Of a stylish cut the shape was;

And the girls in all the town,
Envied Huldah up and down.

Then, at last, one winter morning,
Hiram came, without a warning:

"Either," said he, "you are blind, Huldah, or you've changed your mind.

"Me you snub for trapping varmints,
Yet you take the skins for garments:

Since you wear the skunk and mink,
There's no harm in me, I think."

"Well," said she, "we will not quarrel Hiram: I accept the moral.

Now the fashion's so, I guess,

I can't hardly do no less."

Thus the trouble all was over
Of the love of Hiram Hover;

Thus he made sweet Huldah Hyde
Huldah Hover, as his bride.

Love employs, with equal favor,
Things of good and evil savor;

That, which first appeared to part,
Warmed, at last, the maiden's heart.

Under one impartial banner,

Life, the hunter, Love, the tanner,
Draw, from every beast they snare,
Comfort for a wedded pair!

Bayard Taylor.