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The rule of three ait<1 fractions, too,
Were not really hard to do,
My happiness now seemed supreme,
Alas, I woke— ’twas all a dream!

CiiOiOjS— ’Twas all a dream p

Sojl.G— 'Twai all a dream!
fn waking- hours 1 last the powers
To I'ise in the world’s esteem,
W;is it not. frightful this state delightful
Should only be a dream?

C hokes— In waking hours she lost her powers
To rise in the world’s esteem.
Was it not frightful this state delightful
Should only be a dream?
A nnette Maksh,

TABLEAUX FROM “ MOTHER GOOSE.”

OLD KISG COLE.
Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
A merry old soul was he,
He <;al-cd for his pipe and he called for his bowl
And he called for his fiddlers three.

T a b l e a u x .— [A hoy is seated in a large arm chair ivtih Ms feet resting
on a stool. He wears a hug dank vt&de of very gay material, a crown-
on his iicrtrf, and a long pipe in his mouth. Three hoys each holding in
jNHUitm a •moltn stand bifort' him, zvhile a hlih fello-w dressed as a p&ge
stands at his right elbow, holding a tray on which is placed a bowl at
glass^\
L IT T L E . MIS5 ZUUFFGT,
Lillie Miss Muffett
She sat on a tufict.
Eating of turds and whey;