Sure now they were excellent company.

At length spoke the lass, ’twixt a smile and a tear,

“The weather is cold for a watery bier;

When summer returns we may easily die,

Till then let us sorrow in company.”

Reginald Heber.

A MODEST WIT

A SUPERCILIOUS nabob of the East—

Haughty, being great—purse-proud, being rich—

A governor, or general, at the least,