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The audience smiled, the minister coughed.
The little boys in the corner laughed,
The tenor-man shook like an aspen leaf,
And hid his face in his handkerchief.

And poor Aunt Nellie never could tell
How she finished that terrible strain,
But says that nothing on earth would tempt
Her to go through the same scene again.
So, we have decided, perhaps 'tis best,
For her sake, ours and all the rest,
That we wait, maybe for a. year or two,
Ere our baby re-enter the family pew.
M in n ie M.' Gow.

W HERE THE MINCE PIE GROWS,

1" T IT L E Sam Sugartooth said to himself,
1 y As he sat by a great big rose;
“ I wish I could go with a fairy elf
To the land where the mince pie grows*
I ’d sit all day, in a dreamy way,
And I'd watch them bud and bloom,
And I'd eat and eat of the fruit so sweet
Just as long as my stomach had room."

Little Sam Sugartooth fell asleep,
And as sure as the tale I tell,
The elfins softly round did creep,
And the boss one said: “ 'T is well.”
With a graceful hand he waved his wand,
And sleeping Sam arose
Oil the elfins’ backs, and they all made track.?
For the land where the mince pie grows.