MY WIFE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 325, 15 December 1888, Page 8

MY WIFE.

"She is only a plahi littltt wonnm \ '\^ (The h'uulsninogirls say t'tis Is so), -? : "«s * \ShVs gQtJt>veJF'eyes; that.T'know j "\Bu£ lupp'oje sh&V apUin Httlo wouiah, *- v 1-ihValways loi>]ts charm ing to life, ? CTlieh \vhat,\if ,ttf other* not handsome ? * ? Do. you .think llTat paresj-'noj not- <, * she.'. , ...-.* r^k • *, She's a^deav little, swcot little woman, ;| As tine in her love as the sun ; She "lwsyjighteneil and brightened, my pathway • As nothing besiilo hey has done, j And when I first knew her— my d.wlin, ! I wasn't her eqnul'by far, But she shono on the parik around \np, As pure and as bright as a st ir. .v - ' "'I had wasted my life e'er I met her, i t** 4od no one but .she .-bed jift^ni;,- ! ~ *.c alle 1 jnd ft joljy^good^i's^ ° w '» i * - $hechided^Bti-\Vok"e me to fear, i And then "by her help I ascended" i A higher and nobler way, t While she followed, patiunt and tender, My comfort, ambition, and stay. And now I onn reign where I grovelled, King, where hut for her I'd be *>lave ; Think you I shall ever fotget her? No 1 1 shall be tme to the grave. She may bo a plain little woman, She'B been God"s good angel to me, And there isn't a hi!! that I'll master But she on its summit will be. - Why, what would the world be without - tor-.?- , l Wonld ovei: another like she - •&eav with me and patiently suffer The changes that happen to me ? ._ 'Ah, no ! May the.kind- heavens bleishef : I'll love her the whole of my life,, And ask as a -blessing' when dying To die -in the arms of my wife.

In repartee an Irishman is thoroughly equal to the occasion, the joy of retaliation being a niaiked feature so characteristic of their lace. On one occasion Judge Porter, a popular Irish magistrate, in pronouncing the sentence of the Couit, said to a notorious drunkard : " You will be confined in - gaol for the longest period the law will allow, and I sincerely hope you will devote, some portion of your time to cursing whiskey." "By the powers, I will !" was '.the answer ; u and Portur, too." A/telegram that frightened agentlemsnV family teiriblv, who were staying ;s:t; $:t a "cohutry residence, Was -oiice received byhis coachman, who lnd been. instructed by . letter to be at the station and await his arrival on a certain day. While waiting' the ci'.ielunan received the following 1 dcs- j patch : " Accident. Mr B. remains come nt j i.t tiuin." Inconsequence of the lack . of a yon ma after " remains," Mr 8., on his arrival, found an undertaker and his j tispir-tauts waiting" at the station to convey his " remains " to his bereaved family. A young woman who was married three months ago was asked how she was getting a'Qpg with the mysteries of housekeeping. " Oh, I'm learning very fast.. Why, would 3'ou believe it," she exclaimed, " I hemmed a whole towel myself in six horns yesterday 1" * ' | A. Connecticut ninn has placed over his wKVs grave a large boulder, on which they 3if when she promised to marry him. This seems like a case of touching, tender devotion, but it is nlao possible that he placed the huge boulder on the grave to prevent her from escaping. — Philadelphia Herald. ' i