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From the Yankee MISCELLANY.
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From the Yankee Miscellany.
TIE HEIGHT OF TIL. RIDICULOUS.


by o. w. HOLMES.
/ wrote some lines once on time,
In wondrous merry moud
And thought, as usual, men would say
They are exceeding good.
They were so queer, 50 very queer,
laughed as | would die;
Albeit in the general way,
"A sober man am l.
called my servant, and he came.
How kind it was in him,
To mind slender man like me,
He Of the mighty limb.
"These to the printer" | exclaimed;
And in may humorous way,
l added as a triIling Jest,


"Thcre'll be the devil to pay.'
He took the paper, and | watched,
And saw him peep within;
AT the first line he read his face
Was all upon the grin.
lie read the next, the grin grew broad,
And shot from ear to ear;
He read the third; chuckiing noise
l now began to hear.
The fourth-he broke into roar;
The fith-his waistband split;
The sixth-hc burst five buttons off,
And tumbled in fit!
Ten days and nights, with slceplcss eye,
watched that wrctched man;
And since | never dared to write
AS funny as can.