To pardon or to bear it.
—William Cowper.
Out in the Cold.
The Old Woman and Her Pig.
An old woman was sweeping her house, and she found a little crooked sixpence. “What,” said she, “shall I do with this little sixpence? I will go to market, and buy a little pig.” As she was coming home, she came to a stile; the piggy would not go over the stile.
She went a little farther, and she met a dog. So she said to the dog—
“Dog, dog, bite pig;
Piggy won’t get over the stile;