Housemaid. "We're getting up a Sweepstakes, Mrs. Thrupp. Won't you join?"
Housekeeper. "Gracious me, Child; not I! Why if I won a Horse I shouldn't know what to do with him!"
TO THE SEA.
An Expostulation.
Oh, smooth and smiling! I have loved thee well!
Hymned thee, and heard thee; lived beneath thy spell;
For years thy life-giving ozone have bless'd,
That makes loose garments tighter round the chest.
Paced in the dark thy sounding margent white,