A TRIVIAL ACCIDENT.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 99, 9 April 1864, Page 6

A TRIVIAL ACCIDENT.

A turnstile stood in Fanny's way ; She tried to pass it through: A lot of boys, hard by at play, Had Fanny in their view. Her skirts she sought in vain to press Those narrow bounds between; When lo! the hoops escaped her dress Of steel-ribbed crinoline! The little wretches raised a shout, A loud and joyous noise : They leapt aloft, and danced about, And laughed—those horrid boys! Police, that should have been ashamed, Stood smiling on the scene, While those rude boys "Ho ho!" exclaimed, " Out pops the crinoline ! n A Linguist.—A raw Scotchman, who had evidently not been long from " Aberdeen awa," went into a shop in the City, the other day, and inquired •• Whilk is the wa to the Minoaries ?" "They speak Dutch next door," was the immediate repiy. The following amusing bull was lately perpetrated at -Bristol. A magistrate asked a prisoner if he was married. "No," replied the man. "Then," rejoined his worship, amid peals of laughter, "it is a good thing for your wife " There is a world of beautiful meaning in the following rather liberal translation from Freville : " As the clock strikes the hour, how often we say Time flies, when 'tis we that are passing away." The love that soonest perishes is a love of A bonnet. " One swallow does not make a summer," but one lion can make a spring. Is a bark always built of dogwood ?