His knowledge, hid from public gaze, His worldly goods he never threw Thus undisturbed by anxious cares, ALBERT G. GREENE THE REMOVAL. A NERVOUS old gentleman, tired of trade, By which, though, it seems, he a fortune had made,- This thought struck his mind when he viewed the estate; For in each dwelt a smith: -- a more hard-working two Never doctored a patient, or put on a shoe. At six in the morning, their anvils, at work, From morning till night they keep thumping away, — He offered each Vulcan to purchase his shop; 66 Agreed!" said the pair; "that will make us amends.” "Then come to my house, and let us part friends: You shall dine; and we 'll drink on this joyful occasion, That each may live long in his new habitation." gave He the two blacksmiths a sumptuous regale, So much was he pleased with the thought that each guest Would take from him noise, and restore to him rest. "And now,” said he, "tell me, where mean you to moveI hope to some spot where your trade will improve?" "Why, sir," replied one, with a grin on his phiz, "Tom Forge moves to my shop, and I move to his !" ANONYMOUS. HISTORY OF JOHN DAY. JOHN DAY, he was the biggest man With back too broad to be conceived The very horses knew his weight, Alas! against the shafts of love Soon Cupid sent an arrow through His scarlet coat of mail. The bar-maid of "The Crown" he loved, For, though he changed his horses there, He thought her fairest of all fares, And often among twelve outsides, One day as she was sitting down He came and knelt, with all his fat, Said she, " "My taste will never learn So I must beg you will come here But still he stoutly urged his suit, But John, though he drank nothing else, The cruel maid, that caused his love, For looking in the butt, she saw The butt-end of his woes. Some say his spirit haunts the Crown; But that is only talk; For after riding all his life, His ghost objects to walk. THE ALARMED SKIPPER. MANY a long, long year ago, Of finding out, though "lying low," How near New York their schooners ran. They greased the lead before it fell, And then, by sounding through the night, Knowing the soil that stuck, so well, They always guessed their reckoning right. A skipper gray, whose eyes were dim, Snug in his berth, at eight o'clock, This ancient skipper might be found; No matter how his craft would rock, He slept for skippers' naps are sound! The watch on deck would now and then One night, 't was Jotham Marden's watch, HOOD. And so he mused, (the wanton wretch,) "We're all a set of stupid fools, To think the skipper knows by tasting And so he took the well greased lead, And rubbed it o'er a box of earth That stood on deck — (a parsnep bed) — And then he sought the skipper's berth. "Where are we now, sir? Please to taste." The skipper stormed, and tore his hair, Right over old Marm Hackett's garden!" J. T. FIELD. THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN ALL the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: At first, the infant, And then, the whining school-boy, with his sachel, Even in the cannon's mouth: and then, the justice, |