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Anti the pain in her head was £one, and the dallies
Wort1 as white as the foam of the sea ;
Her bread was light, and her butter was sweet,
And golden as it could be.

Just think,'' ihe children all called in a breath,
“ Tom Wood lias run off to sea;
lie wouldn't, I know, if lie only had
As happy a home as we.'’

The ni;iht came down, and the <;;ood wife smiled
To herself, as she softly said:
’ Tis so sweet to labor for those we love,
It's not strange that maids will wed 1 ”

A SCHOOLROOM IDYL.

H OW plainly I remember a ll!
The desks, deep-scored and blackened,
The row of blackbroards 'round the wail,
The hum that never slackened ;
And, framed about by map and chart,
And casts of dusty p’aster,
That wisest head and warmest heart,
The kindly old schoolmasteri

I see tile sunny corner nook.
His blue-eyed daughter sat in, t
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A rosy, fair-haired girl, who to ole
With us her French and Latin.
H ow foiudngiy T watched the hours
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I’or Ollendorff and C;esar !
And how 1 Jough;. with Tommy Powers
The day he trie-'1 f> ' tease her J