THE OLD HEN.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 159, 29 September 1883, Page 3

THE OLD HEN.

: "y3is name was Augustus Adolphus, and he had en there before. Nighb had spread her sable ■ ' 'ill round earth's sleeping form ; the hall-door "as openj and; the front parlour was as dark as sreb us or the inside of a dark cow. But love has ' teen eyes, and, as Augustus Adolphus stepped in, ~ saw the sylph-like form of Ethelberta Elfrida „ .uldoon, gracefully reclining on the cerulean >uch with all the exquisite grace, wbich, in days me by, her culchaw'd mama had rested on an znpty-candle • box behind her counter and ladled 3 lit pennor.hs of soap to her patrons. Being ' thoroughly conversant with the usual bill of fare, jßlgustuß .Adolphus took his seat 1 by the side of hi* soul's adored and said, " Well, by jawve, "^tty ; it's a tweat to catch yaw alone in a lifetie. That old hen of a mama of yours sticks clo.°e to you lately as if a fellah was one of ose demnition Arfaks, and was positively going eat you." " Fmit that's y' say," roared the , -■ slining form, "Is it me's an owld hen ! bedad .' .en, I'll, raise : th' liar ay' yer head fur that-' / ' ,ix I'd nade t' watch me gerrul whin the loikes ' .V bag-throtting thrash loike yecums afthur her." ' And then the speaker brought down lOlbs of a on a 20 guinea statue of Cupid and Psyche, k>at Aug&g^uß Adc|§hus by this time was round. H; thej||b tellh^flf' friend he could call him a wNjlr^ecTgoat if he didn't come away and leave cane in the hall and his hat on the grand ■' peeanur." Moral to courtists. — Never, talk out i- ; raight till you have first examined the scenery it xd surroundings. '&\ : \ >■• •' •' — — r— '- • .