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No mother of twins was ever more haunted
With trouble to fin d just the ones that she wanted.

There were plenty of names, no doubt about that ■
But a name that would do for a dog or a cat
Would not answer for chickens so pretty as these;
Or else our dear boy was not easy to please.

These two tiny chickens looked just like each other ;
To name them so young would be only a bother;
But with one in each hand, said queer little Ben ;
“ I want this one a rooster and that one a hen.**

Benny knew them apart by a little brown spot
On the head of the one that the other had not
They grew up like magic, cadi fat, feathered chick,
One at length was named Peggy and the other named Dick.

But a funny thing happened concerning their names ;
Rushing into the house one day, Benny exclaims :
“ O mother J O Phil! such a blunder there’s been,
For Peggy's the rooster and Dick is the hen/"
M r s. L. B . B acou.

NEEDLES AND PINS.

T T H E N will you marry me, my bonnie maid?”
j/SL "Can we not wait? '* said she—
“ You know that I love you, but dear, I’m afraid
You soon will get weary of me."
Then he vowed and swore to love and adore,
He prayed on his bended knee,
He said with a sigh “ If I wait I shall die! ”—
He was a man, you see.
Sugar and cream, sugar and cream* )
When we £Lre married ’twill be a sweet dream! | ^ e^ea^'