Ready Wit.—A countryman the other day, for information, asked an Hibernian, who was busily engaged in the street driving down stones, “Pat, when will you get this street done?” “How did you know my name was Pat?” inquired the Irishman. “Why, I guessed as much.” “Then,” replied Pat, “since you are good at guessing, you may guess when the street will be finished.”
Monument of Affection.—There is a monument near Copenhagen, erected by Count Schimmelman, called “The Weeping Eye.” That nobleman’s grief for the death of his wife was so excessive, that he caused a statue to be erected over a spring, and made the water spout from the eye, as a continual flood of tears.
JACK FROST, A SONG
THE WORDS AND MUSIC COMPOSED FOR MERRY’S MUSEUM.
Andante.
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Who hath killed the pretty flow’rs,
Born and bred in summer bowers;