GRANDMOTHER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 3

GRANDMOTHER.

Another new gown as I declare; •--;.■■■;,• ' How many more is it going to be? .■>'. And yo.ur forehead all hid in a cloud of hair— 'Tis nothing but folly, that I can-see,?. The maidens of nowaday make too fr.ee; To right and to loft is the money,.flung; ■.;•• • We used to dress as became our degree—But things have altered since I was yoiing. Stuff,, in my time was made to wear; I Gowns we had never but two or three;- ' Did wo fancy them spoilt, if they chanced to ■ tear ? ■ ■ And shrink' from a patch, , or ( a ? dam? . ■ not we I ' '■'■'' For pleasure a gossiping dish of 'tea, ['" Or a mushroom hunt, ' while the dew yet liung, ' • ' : '"' ■■■'.■ And no need, next day, for a doctor's feeBut things have altered since I was young. The yellow gig, and.a drive to the. fair.;. A keepsake bought in a booth on the lea; A- sixpence perhaps to break and share — /That's how your grandfather courted- ine. Did your grandmother blush, do you think ' ■ ' —not she! ■ ■■ ' • -.' ; : .'-■. When he found her tho churn and'the pails ' among? ' . Or your grandfather like her the less ? not he! ■-._■■ But things have altered since I was young. Child, you pout, and you urge your pleaBetter it were that you held your tongue! . Maids should learn at their elders' knee — But things have altered since 'I was young. . ■ , —May Probyn.