The failings that in woman dwell

Are almost imperceptible.

Confusion take the men, I say,

Who no regard to women pay;

Who make the women their delight

Keep always reason in their sight.

A mangled and spoilt version of this very old poem was recently given in The Sporting Times, (September 4, 1889), as original matter.

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Autumn.

The melancholy days have come,