Which told the thanks he could not speak.

The children then began to sigh,

And all their merry chat was o’er;

And yet they felt, they knew not why,

More glad than they had done before.—Aiken.

THE SHOWER-BATH.

Quoth Dermot (a lodger at Mrs. O’Flynn’s),

“How queerly my shower-bath feels!

It shocks like a posse of needles and pins,