Moral.

"Change upon the counter should be
Strictly eyed;
Afterwards mistakes can not be
Rectified."


PRIOR CLAIMS.

Harold. "Yes, Auntie Connie, I do love you very much; but I love Mamma best." (Apologetically.) "You see I met her first!"


THE NEW HEN.

(A Fable.)

A New Hen wandering disconsolately in a country farmyard once made the acquaintance of a cock of the old school, when both fell into some discourse concerning the changes of the modes.