"When I was young I used to earn
My living without trouble;
Had clothes and pocket-money too,
And hours of pleasure double.
"I never dream'd of such a fate,
When I a-lass was courted—
Wife, mother, nurse, seamstress, cook, housekeeper,
chambermaid, laundress, dairy-woman, and scrub generally,
doing the work of six,
For the sake of being supported."
CURE FOR FAINTING.—222.
A New York man, who had not been out of the city for years, fainted away in the pure air of the country. He was only resuscitated by putting a dead fish to his nose, when he slowly revived, exclaiming, "That's good—it smells like home!"
A CHEAP TREAT.—223.
A hard-shell preacher, in discoursing about Daniel in the lion's den, said: "And there he sat all night long, looking at the show for nothing, and it didn't cost him a cent."