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TUB OLD MAN IN THH PALACE CAR.

"T T *E L L , Betsey, this beats everything our eyes have ever seen!
W _ W c'rc rid In’ in a paiaec He for any Icing or queen •
W e didn’t go as hist as tins, nor oil such cushions rest,
W hen we left New England years ago lo seel: a home out West.

W e rode through this same country, hnt not ad we now ride—
Y ou sat within a stage coach, while 1 trudged on by your side
Instead of riding on a rail, T carried one you "know,
T o pry the old coach from the mire through which we had to go.

L e t’s see ; that's fifty vcars aco— iust arter we were wed;
Your eyes wore then like diamonds bright, your cheeks like roses red,
Now, Betsey, people call u~ old, and push us off one side,
Just as they have the old slow coach i:i which we used to ride.

I wonder i: young married folks to-day would condescend
To take a weddin' tour like ours, with a log house at the end?
Much of the sentimental love that sets young cheeks aglow
W ould die to meet the hardships of fifty years ago.

Our love grew stronger as \vc toiled; though food and clothes were
coarse,
None eve:' saw us in the courts a huntin' a divorce;
Love: levelled down the mountains and made low places high ;
Love sang a sons?- to cheer us when clouds and whirls were nigh.

f ’m glad to see the world move on, to hear the engine’s roar,
A n d all about the cables stretchin’ now from shore to shore.
Oi, r iui:-.-iorj j.s accomplished ; with toil we both arc through ;
The Lord jest let us live awhile to see how young folks do.

W hew! ]~k:t,’-L:y1 now weVc fly in1! See the farms and towns go by !
It makes my gray hair stand on end; it dims my failin' eye.