The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-05
SPEAKING OF
LINGUISTIC QUIRKS.

twas natural for her. to cruy,
And bitter tears she crought.
1t seemed as though her heart would
break, g
But it was ndt quite broken,
Though fearfully her nerves did queak;
Were your nerves ever quicken?
Friends cherished we should not forget:
One hates to be forgotten
You must not in the: future fret
AS in the past you've frotten.
Be temperate in What you eat;
Last week too much you ate
Straightforward be and do not cheat
AS Cagliostro chate.
A novelist so loved to wright
That forty books he wrote.
A man who had street lamps to light
A hundred of them lote..
A boy who sought some fish to catch
A goodly number caught
HIS back 1tched and he had to scratch
And thoroughly he scraught.
When you take cold and have a cough
1t jars you through and through.
You should on New Years day swear
ough
And neither smoke nor enough
thief and murderer to indict
The states attorney wrote.
When by them he was seen to wrict.
The jurymen indote.
A soldier went to war to STAY.
And many foes he slew.
Today are children seen TO play
AS their forefathers- plew.
Whenever illness makes you weak,
Take tOniCS for YOUR weakness
II too habitualfy you speak,
Learn to restrain your speakness.
But have a care, if you must speak,
That harmless is your speech.
Caution becomes the strong and weak,
-Nhateer their strength or weech.
The bird that's seen today to fuy
Yesterday also flew
boy bethought9 him cake to buy;
He ate the CAKE he bew.
A servant all heR duties did;
They ever Were Swell done
A darkey in a weodDile hid
And grinned wisen he was hone.
''To Minneapolis an Eo,"
Said Sally, ands she, vert.
She noted that 1{aw rbosters Gro
Loud as they eyer eent.
Ihe sef-same JOYS today we feel
That our ANCESTORS felt
What fun for bieg,clists to wheel
Where YESTERDAY they wlolt!
When speudthrifts- fortunes have to spend
They rapidly are spent.
You feel relief, Whea troubles end,
To know that they have ent.
The gOrmandizer loves to feed
And
Though eoodIy fare he may less need
Than in his youth he ned.
With thankfulness his heart may swell
Until his stomach's swollen.
And words may not suffice to tell
All there is to be tollen.
And the wine bibber may take drinks
FIJI through and through he's drunken,
The while comradery's jovial wfnks
Have to the last been wunken.
Along the forests leafy aisles
Advanced an army corps.
The generals face was wreathed in
smaisleS a4a L-|
AS he rode on beforps.
His men thoughts as they saw him ride,
Mo better ever rode .
Ihey knew -they~eou4d in him confida
So every one confode.
An old dyspeptic babe adieu
To coffee. pie and sauce.
The act the rest of his life thrieu
Proved both his gain and. Iauce
Once, when twas cold enough To fraaza
MISS Gimp her fingers froze
Gne begged; George, thaw me, If you
pleeze;'
And instantly he pIoze.
She pricked his thumb, which made him
swear,
Just as his father swore.
'Alas' he cried you do not Gear
Fer ne as mother corer'
= m sorry that I pricked your thumb"
The contrite maiden said,
For | confess l love you sumb.
On, would that were daid!'
Mrs. Justwed a fruit cake Trained
According to receipt
Her husband, gratified, exclaimed:
You, like the cake, are sweipt!"
lover who worked on a dyke
Kept by him nartf and rnyrrh
Ihese perfumes he declared. Il lvlle:
They're typical of hyrrh.
Once a detective, pressed with debt
TO duty was assigned.
He warned a crook: you'll learn Won
bebt,
That I've kept you in migned.'
gentleman a stone house built;
The stone he used was gneiss.
Quoth he: TN confident thou whit
Keep out the rats and gmeiss."
For his chief did a soldier stand
CAS- all his comrades stood:
NO ADLER ever did command
Since Washington commood."
A young athlete who loved to swymn.
The English channel swan.
Large crowds We're there his praise to
hymn,
And Justify they ham.
Miss Nuffitt had a dreadful faul;
Twas in the street she fell
Jake Sniggins drove out wood to hauI.
And twenty cords he hell.
John TaI1nan.