A FUNNY DETERMINATION.

Queenly Miss Quaint, the aim of whose life

Is to die an old maid or a minister’s wife,

Grotesquely averred, after hearing young Spread,

“I’ll hear him all day, if I walk on my head!”

“Good!” said old Hunx, with a comical smile;

“But please, if you’re late, don’t come up the broad aisle!”