"THE C'MISSIONER'S MAN."

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 156, 1 March 1872, Page 6

"THE C'MISSIONER'S MAN."

Have you hot seen the 'Chronicle ' With Tom's last funny stave, Wherein the Judge and Justices Play one and all the knave ? Leastways'the Judge and Magistrate! Are taught what breeding means ; And cutting of a gentleman ■■< .Is not what some calls " beans." The G'missioner's man he felt it hard That Judges could not. see . What other men had often seen . And felt when on the spree That some men are obtuse, is fact; And others—touchy too; And when the two in contact come, There's like to be a rdo. And the Judge he took no notice; The jClerk he bode his time ; And Tom was taking stock the while; And turning out his rhyme. I hope that all may take advice From Tom's high moral tone, And not forget that gentlemen Come from the Northern zone : And, Clerk or Bailiff, He's quite right to be seen ; And he need not thrust his figure Behind the ,nearest screen. ;i . . Take hcjtfa4esspn from the, chaps, meny Or boys wHo>iiay lecture ;...... But thihk of the C'missioner's man, And try and do better. '

r Some jealous old maids affirm that liot one young girl in a hundred can set a table, properly, although they can " set up " every Sunday night as natuJ rally as a duck takes to water. :

Knotty Point.—Suppose a - man owns a skiff; he fastens the skiff to the shore with a rope made of straw ; along comes the cow; cow gets into the boat; turns around and eats the rope* the skiff thus let loose, with the cow on board, starts down the stream ,and on its passage u upset;; the cow is drowned. Now, has the man that owns the cow got to pay for the boat, the man that owns the boat got to pay for the cow ? -, r j

A sensible old soldier is that who lives near Louisville, Whenever a quar rel with his wife is impending, he takes his tent and frying-pan' and some pro. visions, and camps out until his wife huutsJrim up.and effects a reconciliation.