Gloomy winter, hence! away!
Love and fancy scorn thy sway;
Love and joy, and friendly mirth
Shall bless this roof, these walls, this hearth,
The rigor of the year control,
And thaw the winter in the soul.
Mrs. Barbauld.
A German gentleman, in the course of a strict cross-examination on a trial was asked to state the exact age of the defendant.
“Dirty,” (thirty,) was the reply.