HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH SINGLE.

Bush Advocate, Volume IX, Issue 668, 27 August 1892, Page 5

HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH SINGLE.

I draw tny chair before tho fire, J My dressing-gown falls on my knccn ; Tbo faithful friendß who novor tiro, My books, are ranged around to pleaea Tho changing mood. In all the shiio No Benedict's so well at oaso. With ouo thing more my blieo wtre riuo, And that 1 seize, my own, my pipe. The gonial Autocrat is near, And Boswol), etaiiding by bis aide ; Thero'a Fielding, hiding in the roar, Kore Lillywhite and " Jiyren's Ghrii'e' } Penaeimis, Pickwick, Swift, and here Tho frolic Jluso's sons abido ; Lockor and Traed together stand, | And Dobsou ready to my hand. Tbo bleak wind shrills across tho str;et, The lire Ir.irnt up innro clioerfully. V/hut ueed I, puss, loto'b btt(er-.swe jt $ I aiii not Miss Blanche Amory. We'll reßt coutent with one ilnfeat ; j No more emotions, thank's, for me J Or only this, lulled by your purr To cloßn my eyes aud thi:ik of Ha, * * x a 9 'Tis midnight and tho lira is low : Hour cuter hour my thoughts will stiayj Aud iPRve my trusty books, and go Along the well-remembered way. 'Tis better thus, no doubt. Hoigho ! There's something wanting, Puß3y, Stay ! I'll write her in the solf-namo strain, Perhaps she won't Bay " No" again, — '/''iii/jle £a,' .