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O, I ’d rather own Lhat car, sir,
With Peggy by my side,
Than a coach and four, and fold galore* j
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o
And a lady for my bride;
For the lady would ait forninst me,
On a cushion made with taste—-
While Peggy would sit. beside me,
With my ami around her waist,
While we drove in the low-backed car,
To be married by Father Mahar ;
(X my heart would beat high
At her glance and her sigh—
Though it beat ill a low-backed car !
S am mu. L o v e r .

THE OLD FISHERMAN.
H but there was an expression of supreme content upon his tanned
E was old Eind weather-beaten, and his clothes were the same,

face as fie sat on the edge of the wharf yesterday afternoon and
let his legs dangle down. In his mouth was a pipe lhat had been new
and sweet iti the dear, dead long ago, and in his right hand he held
one end of a fish line. The other end was held down upon the bottom
of the river, a long distance from the shore.
“ Any luck, captain ? " asked a young man who was strolling by.
ft is considered (be proper thing to call every man along the river wha
id old and weather hen ten “ captain."
“ Nope—they an’t a-bitiiV much to-day,’’
“ They don’t bite much anyway these days, do they ? ”
“ Mope— not like they usctcr. Tuscter be so't I could come oown
here an’ catch a basketful in mcbbe an hour or so."
irThat was quite long ago, wasn't it? ”
“ Yep, qaite 2. speli ago. I ’member one time— hello \ ”
The old man had given his line a vicious jerk and was now all
excitement.