The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-10
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

have been quite interested in the
questions and answers regarding Poor
Old Horse" In tho sos used to hear
my grandfather sing the old song. and
OF course committed the verses to menu
DRY. which has followed me through my
long life. as now am ~. I am pleased
to add three more verses to complete the
song they should follow the second verse
as you have published.
u. L. r. MELLsH.
My lodging was once inside tho stable
warm,
To keep my flesh and bones secure from
all HARM
But now I'm turned within the streets to
roam,
To endure the winters cold. the rain. the
hail and snow:
Poor old horse let him die.
Mankind ia so ungrateful for services
when past,
lie exposes my frame to the cold winters
blast
I used to carry loads and draw the cart
and sled
But now my strength has failed must be
knocked upon the head.
Poor old horse. let him die.
He's old and he's cold. he's lazy, dull and
slow.
He eats all my hay and he bruises all my
straw:
He's neither 1T to ride nor in the cart to
draw
So whip him. kill him. skin him. 10 the
huntsman let him go.
Poor old horse. lot him die.
n. lis inquiry as TO the poem having
tho refrain about content has been an
ewered by Prof. II. A. Beers. George ID.
Mackay, T.. ". n. Il Is entitled THE
Happy Heart" is by Thomas Decker and
IL all occasional song in his drama Of
patient Grisell':
Art thou poor. yet hast thou golden slum-
bers?
| o. sweet content,
Art thou rich. yet is thy mind perplexed
o. punishment!
Dost thou laugh to see how fools are vexed
To add to golden numbers golden numbers
| o. sweet content, o. sweet. o. sweet con
tent.
Work apace. apace. apace. apace
Honest labor bears lovely face:
Then hey nonny nonny, hey nonny nonny
canst drink the waters Of the crispAc
| spring?
q. sweet content,
! - l.. gg- u
thine own tears
q. punishment!
Then he that patiently wants burden
bears
No burden bears but IL king king 4,
o, sweet content, o. sweet. .. sweet con
tent!
Work apace, apace, apace, apace
Honest labor bears a lovely face;
Then hey nonuy nonny. hey nonny nouny
The STORY OF the Shoemaker" must.
think. he ;he students Tale OF the Cob
bier of Hsgenau in "Tales OF "A Waysd
Inn" by Jongfellow. part second II
sang the verse while mending the Burgo
masters shoes, II YOU remember:
"our ingress into the world
Was naked and bare
our progress through the world
Is trouble and care:
our egress from the world
VIII he nobody knows where
But II We do we'll here
We shall do we'll there
And ! could tell you no more.
Should preach a whole year
Did the comedian mentioned IN to-day
sun lift II from Longfellow or did the
both owe K 10 some one else. and II 81
TO whom? Incidentally the story Of h
cobber has nothing to do with the yer.
in question. NJ. |. n.
also have a question 20 ask. ca
. any OF THE SUSs readers tell me abol
the old steamboat KnickerboclSer, a nigl
boat on the Hudson River somewhei
back In the sos: My Impression
that this boat was burned and run ashol
on Polypus 60 Island, in NewburR
Bay, and the catastrophe was attend,
with considerable loss OF life. | a
= interested in this. as my father was OF
OF the owners OF ths boat. and all that
i have II family tradition.
A. W. EARLE.
am eager to nnd out the author {
a poem about the Christmas box fro
home. Tho first verse begins:
when the sidewalks lined with cedi
and the holly berries CLEAN,
sH...s