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,