January Twenty-ninth

Lady Catherine Swallow was a widow at eighteen, and has since buried a second husband and two coachmen.

—Addison.

January Thirtieth

Jerry, dying intestate, his relatives claim’d

While his widow most vilely his mem’ry defam’d:

“That’s no wonder,” says one, “for ’tis very well known,

Since he married, poor man, he’d no will of his own!”

—Burns.

January Thirty-first