That man made wine

To drown trouble in?

* * *

We have just received our copy of the London Spectator, and conclude that the spirit of spring must have struck that staid and sober paper, for it prints several verses of the old song, “Johnnie and Frankie,” but with the wrong chorus. Every connoisseur knows that the real refrain is:

“He was her man,

But he done her wrong.”

* * *

A gambling flea one day met some mice,

Suggested a trip to the barn to shake dice;

When in came a horse and stepped on the flea,