THREE TASTES.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 475, 30 May 1891, Page 6

THREE TASTES.

My pipe he tastes of turpentineHe is a penny pipe — ! A taste that every pipe of mine Has when he is not ripe. I bought hira at a little Bhop Where thoy sell fruit and chees., Tobacco, toys, and ginger pop, And said, " A cheap pipe, please." It was a maiden sold to me, And ahe was proud and cold ; She'd briar pipes at two-and-three For them that squandered gold ; She'd one that had a leather case, Item, a curly stem ; And cheap pipes make her shrug her face,, She had such scorn of them. 11. My pipe he tastes of cherry now ; Gone, like the foam of wine, Gone, like mist from tbe mouHtain-broWt Gone is that turpentine. With the pure herb I feel it blendThat charm of cherry wood, And smoke hira six times straight on end* Because he is bo good. And yet my aunt gets up and siiiffs, And therewith wags her head ; And warns me iv between the whiffs That I shall soon be dead ; And says excessive smoking must Debaso and bring me low, She makes herself offensive, juat Because she loves me so. 111. My pipe, he taßtes of chocolate, And he has grown so dear, That I get up at half-post eight Aud smoke till night is here. My aunt informs me that tho smell Is ranker than before — I could not love her half so well Loved I not baccy more. The female mind ! The female mind! How beautiful it is ! And yet it has to sit behind When it's compared with thiß— • This taste that falls upon my pipe, That calms when woman clocks, In the sweet "season when he's ripe) And juat before he cracks. — Ftmch, A Paris lady of hinty-eight, the Marquise de Brives, who ib without heirs, has, after providing for old domestics and poor friends. settled £640,000 on Cardinal LavigexisS return for an annuity of £1,000. \