A FACT.
Pat went to his mistress: "My lady, your mare
In harness, goes well as a dray-horse, I swear:
I tried, as you're thinking to sell her, or let her,
For coming on thus, she'll go off all the better."
"Twas very well thought of" the lady replied,
"You've acted a sensible part.
But Patrick, pray tell me the day that you tried,
Of whom did you borrow the cart?"
"The cart? why, she walk'd well in harness, I saw,
But I thought not, by no manes, to try if she'd draw;
For says I, by Saint Patrick, who, her comes to view,
To tell him, she has been 'in harness' will do!"
M.L.B.