Page 397 - The model orator, or, Young folks' speaker : containing the choicest recitations and readings from the best authors for schools, public entertainments, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc. : including recitals in prose and verse ...

But the sugar and cream they passed like a dream,
Alas ! they could never agree.
She said, “ Let us part, youhve broken my heart!”
“ I think it is beat,” said he—
“ When I'm gone you will miss me a thousand times o'er! ”
“ Oh no! not a w hit!” said he—
Then away she went stamping and slamminr; the door—
She was a woman, you see.
Needles and pins ! Needles and pins ! )
When a man’s married, his trouble begin? ' J ^ eP(^

Five minutes, precisely five minutes liad passed,
She opened the door with a sigh,
“ Sinec we have settled to part,” she said—-
“ I wanted to say good-by ! ”
“ Wc never shall meet any more/’ she wept—
"Alone we mast live and die.”
Then he opened his arms and in them she crept.
And that's how they said good-by.
Let the bells ring! Let the bells ring! |
Man without woman is but a poor tiling! j Kept at.

TOO PROGRESSIVE: TOR HIM.

I AM somethin’ of a vet’ran, just a-turnin’ eighty year,—
A man that’s hale and hearty an’ a stranger tew all fear;
But I’ve heard some news this mornin’ that lias made my old
head spin,
An’ I'm goin’ tew ease my con shuns if I never spe ik agin.
T’vc lived my fourscore years of life, an’ never till tew-day
Wuz I taken for a jackass or an ign'rant kind o’ jay,
Tew be stuffed with such durned nonsense ’about them crawling bugs
and worms
That's killin’ human bein’s with their “ nukroscopic germs.”