Page 402 - 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 ...

The morrow dawned, and rosy and sweet
Came little Bess from her nap.
The nurse said, " Go into mamma's room
And look in grandma's lap.”

,s Come here,” said grandma, with a smile,
From the rocking-chair where she sat.
“ God has sent you two little sisters;
Now! What do you think of that?”

Bess looked at the babies a moment,
With their wee heads, yellow and brown,
And then to grandma, soberly said,
<( Which one are you going to drown ?”

A SIMILAR CASE.

’T i X E L L , Jack! Hear you’ve gone and done
Y V Yes, I know most fellows \vi!L
Went and tried it once rnyself, sir,
Though, you see, I’m single still,
And you met her, did you— tell me—
Down at Nov/port, last July,
And resolved to ask the question
At a soiree! So did I,

I suppose yon left. £he hall room
With its music and its light—-
For they say love’s flume is brightest
in the darkness of the ft^ht.
Well, you walked along together,
Overhead the .starlit sky,
And I ’ll bet, old man, confess it!
You were frightened. So was T,