MORAL.

With empty heads in borrowed locks,
Thus Dandies throng Broadway,
And strut as if they were in truth
The Lions of the day.

And why the cow-skin follows not.
Would you the reason know?
Dame Nature has encased them all
In calf-skin long ago.

J. Rheyn Piksohn.

Savannah, Georgia, 1843.


[THE MAIL ROBBER]