You’re call’d upon for “How do, Jack?”

One hundred times a day, at least.

A friend of his one evening said,

As home he took his pensive way,

“Upon my soul, I fear Jack’s dead—

I’ve seen him but three times to-day!”

ON TAKING A WIFE

“Come, come,” said Tom’s father, “at your time of life,

There’s no longer excuse for thus playing the rake.—

It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife.”—