Unwillingly he pays the rent,

My Tenant.

A note from him? Another growl!

Some chimney smokes, he wants a cowl.

Thus he complains, that moping owl,

My Tenant.


Mrs. R. says she always understood you must "catch your hare before you cook it;" so she cannot for the life of her make out what a friend of hers meant by telling her that "when their kitchen-maid cooked the hare she caught it afterwards!"


A DIARY À LA RUSSE.