"Well, noa, Sir; but Old it be! Whoi, I'se knowed it meself these noine Years!"


ODE TO AN OVERCOAT.

(By a Shivery Person, in Spring-time.)

"Cast ne'er a clout till May be out,"

The old Scotch proverb says.

Thee, did I doff, "Immensikoff,"

For three most sultry days.

But wind and dust, in gruesome gust,

Search bosom, back and throat;