The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-27
''As with my hat upon my head,
l walked along tue strand
1 there did meet any other man
vi b his hst in his and.

walked along tue strand
there did meet any other man
Wi his hat in his land.
"Or, TO render such poetry subservient t.
my own immediate use hse
"I therefore pray thee, Benny dear,
That thou wilt give 10 me,
With cream and sugar soItened we'll
AEother cup OF tea. .-...-''., Z
"Eor fear that 1. my gentle maid.
khall long detain the cup,
When once unto the bottom a4--
Have drunk the liquor up.
"Yst hear alas this mournful truth,
Nor hear it with frOwn; -sHlfFf
Thou cAnst not mAb IA, tea as fast
AsI can gulpiE doSn
Mr.. Fox, the CREST orator, was on onC
occasion told by lady that she "did moi
care three skips of louise for him." HG
Immediately took out hia peRcl and Wrbtt
the following:
a lady has told me, and in her own houss,
That she cares not for =" thrte skips Of louse
rgive the dear creature for what she has said,
luce women will talk OF what runs In their h.ad
Bsrty Willard, who formerly lived in
the rorthern part of Vermont, was noted
for his careless, vAgSbond habits, ready
wit, and remarkable facility for extempore
rhyming. Sitting one day in q villsge
store, among crowd Of idlers who always
gathered around him on his arrival, the
merchant asked Bsrty Hwhy he always
wore that shocking bad hat" Barty re.
piled that it was simply because he was
unable to purchase 3 new one.
'Oome" said the merchant, 9make me q
good rhyme on the old hat Immediately,
without stopping to think, and I'll give
you the best castor in the store" Where
upon Bsrty threw his old tile on the floor,
and began: . E--Fi7a !
Here lies my old hat, 5rr ( 3,
And, lr-y, wbst of shat? d.
'Tis % go' as the rest Of my raiment
II buy me bsttsr l-u-- .s,. +
You'll mRke me your debtor, -
And sJrd me TO jail for the payment.
Thenew hat was sdjudged, by the aunan
inous vote of the house." to belong to
Barly, who wore it of in triumph, saying,
alt YVES poor head that couldn't take care
OF itself" sa s- zd P.
An Oxford and Cambridge man, who
had had frequent disputes about the di.
vinily of Christ, CHANGING to meet in COM
pany, the former, with a serio comicsl air,
wrote the following lines, and handed them
to the latter: i,9 t
You, Juisa-lite. your ord and God denied;
Juoas, i'm ike to you, repentaut sighed.
Whereupon the "heretc" retorted:
You ere like Judas, yet unlike that elf;
Once more like Judae be, aud hang yourself.
The common phrase, ''give the devil his
due, " wss turned very wittily by member
of the bar of North Carolina, some years
ago, on three of his legal brethren. Dur.
ing the trial of case, Hillmsn, Dews and
Swain, (sll distinguished lawyers, and the
last named President of the State Univer.
sity, } handed James Docge, the Clerk Of
the supreme Court, the following epitaph:
Here lies Jas Dodge, who lodged all good, 81
Aud never lodged al evil; G.
And, after lodging all he could,
BE could OF dodge the DsVi s-.- ..- ..-
Mr.. Dodge sent back to the gentlemen
the annexed impromptu reply, which may
be considered equal TO anything ever OK.
pressed in the best days of Q1een Anne OF
Bess: FL
Here lies . Hiiinan and Swain;
Their lot let no man GROOVE; al
They lived In sin, sDd died a pain. -
Add the devil got his dues, (DsVs.) 30.
EFFUsIoEs ON WIBDow PANEs.
Dean swift wrote the following epigram
on an inn window: Is
The glass by lovers Dcnsenss blurred,
Dims and obscures cur highf;
to, when our passions love has stirred,
Il darkeRs Resssn's light.
A lady wrote with diamond on q pane
of glass:
cod did at first make upright; but he.
To which gentleman added
Most surely had continued SO; but sbe-
A lady wrote upon window some
verses, intimsiing her design of never
marrying. A gentleman wrote the follow.
Ing lines underneath Eo p,
The lady whose resolve these words beteksn;
Wrote them on glass to show it may be broken
Sir Walter Raleigh having written on 1
window ... II t-,-z,
Fain would I climb, yet fear to fall
Queen Elizabeth, the instant she saw it
wrote under it
If thy heart fall thee, climb not at all.
A Mr.. Barton, on retiring with fortune
made in the wool trade, built q fair stonI
house, at Holme, in Nottinghsmshire, il
the window of which was the following
ceuplet-an acknowledgment of the mean
whereby he had acquired his estate;
/ thank God, and ever shall,
/ il is the hhoep hath paid for all.