“There was a piper had a cow,
And he had nought to give her;
He took his pipes and played a tune,
And bade the cow consider.
The cow consider’d very well,
And gave the piper a penny
To play the same tune over again,
The corn rigs are bonnie.”
Irishman’s Notion of Discount.—It chanced one gloomy day in the month of December, that a good-humored Irishman applied to a merchant, to discount a bill of exchange for him at rather a long, though not an unusual date; and the merchant having casually remarked that the bill had a great many days to run, “That’s true,” replied the Irishman; “but then, my honey, you don’t consider how short the days are at this time of year.”