Cast forth into the deep thy net.”

He vanished. Mused the stern old man:

“I wonder who the de’il was he!

In every inch he looked a king,

But plied the hatchet splendidly.”

THE EASTER KISS.[8]

Soon “the Sun-bright Feast-day” cometh,

I will claim my Easter kiss.

Others, then, will stand around us;

Pray, my Dora, mark you this!