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Away went Gilpin, and away
Went Gilpin's hat and wig:
He lost them sooner than at first;
For why? They were too big.

Now Mistress Gilpin, when she saw
Her husband posting down
Into the country far away,

She pulled out half a crown;

And thus unto the youth she said That drove them to the Bell, "This shall be yours when you bring back

My husband safe and well."

The youth did ride, and soon did meet
John coming back amain,
Whom in a trice he tried to stop,
By catching at his rein:

But not performing what he meant,
And gladly would have done,
The frighted steed he frighted more,
And made him faster run.

Away went Gilpin, and away
Went post-boy at his heels,
The post-boy's horse right glad to
miss

The lumbering of the wheels.

Six gentlemen upon the road
Thus seeing Gilpin fly.

With post-boy scampering in the rear,

They raised the hue and cry:

"Stop thief! stop thief!-a highwayman!"

Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way

Did join in the pursuit.

And now the turnpike-gates again
Flew open in short space;
The tollmen thinking as before
That Gilpin rode a race.

And so he did; and won it too;

For he got first to town;

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With hesitation admirably slow, presumes

Nor stopped till where he had got up He humbly hopes

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He did again get down.

may be so.

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His evidence, if he were called by And give us in recitals of disease, A doctor's trouble, but without the fees;

To swear to some enormity he saw, For want of prominence and just relief,

Would hang an honest man and save a thief.

Through constant dread of giving truth offence,

He ties up all his hearers in suspense; Knows what he knows as if he knew it not;

What he remembers seems to have forgot;

His sole opinion, whatsoe'er befall, Centring at last in having none at all.

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Relate how many weeks they kept their bed,

How an emetic or cathartic sped: Nothing is slightly touched, much less forgot.

Nose, ears, and eyes seem present or the spot.

Now the distemper, spite of draught or pill,

Victorious seemed, and now the doctor's skill;

And now - alas, for unforeseen mishaps!

They put on a damp nightcap and relapse:

They thought they must have died, they were so bad;

Their peevish hearers almost wish they had.

[From Conversation.]

Touched with the magnet, had at- A FAITHFUL PICTURE OF ORDI

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SOME fretful tempers wince at every touch,

You always do too little or too much: You speak with life in hopes to entertain,.

Your elevated voice goes through the brain;

You fall at once into a lower key, That's worse- - the drone-pipe of an humble-bee.

The southern sash admits too strong a light,

You rise and drop the curtain – -now

'tis night.

PAIRING-TIME ANTICIPATED.

A FABLE.

I SHALL not ask Jean Jacques Rous

seau

If birds confabulate or no;
'Tis clear that they were always able
To hold discourse, at least in fable;
And even the child who knows no
better

Than to interpret by the letter,
A story of a cock and bull
Must have a most uncommon skull.
It chanced then on a winter's day,
But warm and bright and calm as
May,

The birds, conceiving a design
To forestall sweet St. Valentine,
In many an orchard, copse, and grove
Assembled on affairs of love,
And with much twitter and much
chatter

Began to agitate the matter.
At length a Bulfinch, who could boast
More years and wisdom than the
most,

Entreated, opening wide his beak,
A moment's liberty to speak;
And, silence publicly enjoined,
Delivered briefly thus his mind :
"My friends! be cautious how you
The subject upon which we meet;
I fear we shall have winter yet.”

treat

A Finch, whose tongue knew no
control,

With golden wing and satin poll,
A last year's bird, who ne'er had tried
What marriage means, thus pert re-
plied:

"Methinks the gentleman," quoth
she,

He shakes with cold, you stir the fire" Opposite in the apple-tree,

and strive

To make a blaze- that's roasting

him alive.

Serve him with venison, and he

chooses fish;

With sole that's just the sort he would not wish.

He takes what he at first professed to loathe,

And in due time feeds heartily on both.

By his good-will would keep us single
Till yonder heaven and earth shall
mingle;

Or (which is likelier to befall)
Till death exterminates us all.
I marry without more ado;
My dear Dick Redcap, what say you?"
Dick heard, and tweedling, ogling,
bridling,

Turning short round, strutting, and
sidling,

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