The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-04-06
MEDF0RD MERcuR1ALs.
NY NEIGHBOR's HENS.

MY NEIGHBOR'S HENS.
My neighbours hens across the way.
Have great regard for me;
They come to see me every day
AS soon as they can see.
They have liking for my ground.
There is no doubt of that;
Where seeds and juicy worms abound
They heve it right down pat.
lay out beds all in a row
And put in seeds Il lot;
grade it true, ami even so,
7 will be charming spot.
My neighbours hens take note of this
And pick and wallOW round,
And find an unalloyed bliss
In scratching up my ground.
like to give my neighbours hens
Such joy as this each day;
IT would be cruel deed in pens
To make those biddieS stay.
My neighbOr, hasn't thanked me yet,
Although I'm sure he kenS;
But still know he'll not forget
My kindness to his hens.
Money isn't everything-checks cut
quite figure.
The iceman begins where the coal
dealer leaves off.
its good to be rich, but it's richer to
he good.
on the instalIment plan.
The automobiles are not the only
ones who run down their neighbors.
There's none other lust as good" if
you happen to want a certain kind.
If imam was made to mourn" woman
was made to make man do the mourn
ing.
The average poet loves SecluSion, and
well, usually he has no difficulty about
securing it.
The way of the tranSgressor is hard,
especially if he tries to saw his way out
Of Jail.
OF course clothes don't make the man:
if they did, there wouldn't be so many
misfits.
Notwithstanding mans condemnation
of high heels, he likes to watch them
passing on stormy days.
Don't think that every other man you
meet now va days is i'll or out of his head;
he may be moving.
No doubt there is good deal said
about the Easter hat, but there's a
good deal more left unsaid.
1t will soon be time for the suburban
tie to spade in the weeds he neglected
to gather last fall.
AS soon as a man begins to study the
ways of women, he becomes more hope
lessly lost than ever.
"No news may be good news" but
you'll always notice "A goodly number of
people hanging around the post office
1t might be worth while for some en-
terprising journal to get the views of
Sir Thomas Upton on race suicide
Half of the spice has gone out of the
romance when a girl owns up to her
lover that she really loves him.
There are two needless characters
forever lowering around and bothering
good men. They are, Il Told Youso,'
and Len Dusa Dollar"
A good joke is all right in its place,
but it shouldn't be told girl until she
has her new teeth in.
An exchange wants to know if the
New Woman has really got here. Ger
tainly; President Roosevelt has been
talking to her considerably of late.
A Medf0rd man who owns a large
rabbit farm says that the question of
race suicide doesn't appear to concern
his long-eared charges.
There are many good fields yet I'M
titled. Some enterprising editor ought
to ask humorist's wife to write an ar
ticle on "Why girls shouldn't marry
You may take large fish story with
grain of salt, but of course you can't
take large fish in the same manner.
\ Medford man was heard to say,
"'Crossing the Bar is an aWfully good
song, awfully good, but its title does
bring up so many recollections. Med
ford Mass Merc,lrv