AFTER DARK IN WESTPORT.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1157, 10 March 1874, Page 4

AFTER DARK IN WESTPORT.

At peaceful eventide, I blow my mild cheroot, And round the town I glide, Before I go to roost.

River banks I shun, That is after dark, Ever siuco I fell Down a perfumed shaft, Streets are dark and drear, Hotsemen gallop wild, Into ditches deep Driving truant child.

Ever and anon, Startling sounds I hear, Gazing round I see Some snoozer on the beer.

Lights dimly gleam From publics wide and far, Barmaids making love Over every bar.

Felines at midnight Balmy sleep destroy, Tom to his Maria Howling notes of joy,

Midnight low tide breeze, Bathing shrub and tree, Bah ! I cannot staud, 'Tis too strong for mo. William Nutts

Mrs Partington thinks that the grocers ought to hire a music teacher to teach them the scales correctly. If a man who makes a deposition is a depositor, does it necessarily follow that the man who makes an allegation is an alligator ? ' I hate things as isn't according to nature.' as the baker remarked when he saw a sweep washing his face on a week day. "The murder of a printer in this office yesterday by one of the editors of this paper, " sa3 r s the Atlanta Herald, " may be explained and justified in a few words. IVe editor wrote the following sentence : 'No undigested sin was lyintr on his conscience,' and the late typo made it read—'An old white hen was lying on his conscience.' The editor was discharged yesterday on the ground of' commendable homicide' and complimented highly by the Court on his promptness.'' At Oarliuville, Illinois, girl who recovered ten dollars from a young fellow for kissing her against her will, offered him the money back a few clays afterwards if he would " do it again."