Select Poetry.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 15, 15 October 1874, Page 3

Select Poetry.

HAVE PATIENCE. A youth and ijtiaid, .one wintry night, Wtre sitting in the corner ; '...',-. His name we're told wa-i Joshu-i White, And her's was Patience garner. Not much the prttty maiden sail, Beside the young man eitting ; Her cheeks were flushed a ro-ty red, Her eyes bent on heir knitting. JjTor could, he guess what thonghfs of hitn. Were to her, tyoaom flocking, As her fair fingers swift and s>lim Flew round and round the shocking, j While as for Joshua, bashful youth, His "tvord** grew few and fewer; Though all the time, to tell the truth, JE^is chair edged nearer to her. Meanwhjle.ber ball of yarn gave out, She kit so fast and steady ; \ . " And he must give his aid no doubt, l\> get another ready. He held the skein ; of course the thread, Qot tangled, snarled j- and twisted, < . "Have patience !" cried the artless maid To him who her assisted. . c •■* - Good chance wad this for tongue-tied churl T6 sHorten all palaver ; ' , ' w "Have patience,,' cried he, dearest girl • ' " ;. And may I really have for ? The. deed was done J No rpore ,tha,t night Clicked needles in the corner; " And she is Mrs rXnihua VVbite ' ' That once was Patience — ' Thames phronicle.' .

Burrow Members. — Rabbit*. Branch Establishments. — Trees. Partly Cremated. — Char-women. What is Ignorance ?-rßaw Happi.ness. A Beggarly Shame.— -Robbing 9, pauper. . A Good Household Receipt.—--fle.-ceipt for Fine Art Collection.— -*- A chest -pf drawers. A Very "Common Mis(s)take.— *Takr •ing* a wife. . , The Most Popular Sort ,of Bees.-r. bees. . „. , ';...-• •■ ' Thing's Most Liable to .Change.rr .Weathercpcks. ..'• ' : Early Spring.-^Jumpmg put of bed. at daylight. Members of tbe Fire Brigade.*-*--* The poker and tongs. . Suitable Apartments for s Gastles ,iti the Air. — Browp. Study. . „ * A Powder for Effectually Removing Superfluous Hairps (hares).*—Gunr . - .11... {\t . / i . powder, What is both food for the body, an<J for the mind * ' .' '-' ■*'•- It has been ascertained that the mail whp "held, on ,tp the last" was si shpe_ma]cer. -." .. ' .'"•' ". "* '.'"■' The longest word in. -tbe English language is smiles, because t^pre is. a mile between the first and last, letters. " I'm perfectly uneasy on this point," as; the fly said when thp-^oy stuck him pn the end of a needle. .. Josh Billings says :~" There ain't ennything .that will kpmpletely kure , iaziness, but a second wife ha^ jpeen known to hurryjit some. .."-.. " Now, mind . you/' . whispered . a . servant girl -to her neighbour :; *.'! don't say as .how missus drinks j but ; ber tween you and, £ the decanter, don't keep full . all day:". ,.../.;"' There is a. man, iivipg somewhere in Devonshire so .alarmingly .bright .that her uses .the palm ©f his hand. fpr a looking-glass, tit is .said anybody, cap .'see through him. ' . The meanest man in the world is living at Cambridge. In helping him. out of .the river once, a man ; tpre the. collar off his coat. JTJie .next day. he: sued him .for assault and battery. A high jiative, functionary in Askantee, op being ., presented, with an. epaulette and gold hand-.bell, suspended I them '.both ir.om \ thej,;.bpttorp. o,f tbp spise. No accounting fprtastes.- ',''■.' ' a * a- . Hh-ptel table, who wanted the ihilk passed to, him,, thus asked for it ;-rr" Please send your cow this way." To whom the landlady retorted as follows :—-*'. Waiter, take _tjb_e. cow down to • where the. calf is bleating.:*', .. An Edinburgh undertaker, noted for his thrift, having, occasion. vto take -the corpse of an old lady. to. the" family. ., biirying-placein the Highlands; brought-., back: ' his ' hearse, , full ; pf> smuggled whisky. [On being .arraigned; for ;th,e offence, ,h.e .said . tp ; the magistrate : " >Wou> inon, there!s na . Jiarm dpue, : I only took awa' the body* anpl brought rjijack ;ith,e s'peerit/' .'■'." |. ' '• . . /...., . A livery^table. keeper. nai^d Bpuxr^ would hevpr leta hor,se go without requestinjg 4lie tads, , not .to^driye, fast.. One day,' a jnan^c^tl.ed' for. ahorse ,tp M attend . pi. ■ funeral , ..-',. ",, Certainly '"^aipl; Spurr ; '." Jiutv" -he -^-A^V fretting the, .solemn . purpose ;for r which J^thei-jrpun^. man -yanteia the hbr^e, dpn'| drive fast;-fi" ;Whyy. jest 160k fe a-here,- old feiler,'' s.-idthe ,s#m^^ , man, 'f I r want :y$L to, .uQdertanp! % that X, shall" keep iip s wsth the ', prpcessiph if? it • -IpiW^hor^ Wh^t he \^jx^ll&f^^ v^^^\i^L' dpctOT,{ r eplebr.ated rainapsf; -. as*- 4 mucfi fox;,; for love of gopjd living,^ as^|p^^B;p]^-| fess-ibnpl skill, .called - upp^^fce|t^ijit^ eccentric noslem^i>v]-^^ sitting alone;, at „a, yer^^ic^.di||ni||j After .. some tijn e:' n ue;^<^^^'n^^^B^ no .Invitation^ tpz-pa^tjak^l^ig^a^df; "My t i^^^jff^r^^^^u^ lipr-ishipls; place.; f^J^ld^J|^^^ 'doctor, .;.^j».'! ; yjM§^^^^^&^i ;thpu.spndj^jwd& rjeplit^d .Jus : . ' ; Lprd-.hip<' :; s|^jp|ipv^||t|^| my dear jdpctpr. 4dp^ :^j^'^9i^^^^ : home aivi 'o^y^^^^o4o^^^