A Yankee View Of Marriage

Can't marry a woman now-adays, til] you're ao deat ycu havo ha cuckyour head j like a pi'rrüt to hear wliat she says, and so long sightcd you can't seo what sho looks lilci: ne;irer than arm's length. I look at them girls and feel as iho fellah did wlio iniwed catcliing the trout: Vood a'coHt more butter to cook kim 'n lie'8 wurth, said the fella! Takes a wliole pioce o' goods to o jver 'ein. I'd as liat' undurLuku to keep a span of elepliants, and t.ike an ostnub to board, too, as to marry oue of tliom Wliat'tj the use? Cljrk's and uouuterjumpers aru't auythuig. Sparr.igrass and groen peas ani't for Chem llo.ssback i-idiu' arn t for thein, except once a year - on Fast Daj'. And ïnarryin' arn't for thein. Sumotimes a follaU fe'ils lo,iely, and vvould like to have a nicu young woiuan to teil her huw he feela. Aud sometiines a fellah would like to liave oue of thein small young ones to trot on his knee and draw about in a little wagon. It's odd enougb, but it seems to me uubody can afford the iittle artieles exeept the folks that are so poor they dou'c want anything. It inakes nioe boys of us folluhs, no doubt! And it s pleas.uit to fine young girls sitting, like skop-keepcrs, behind tkeir goodfi, waitin' an' waiun' an' wnitin', au no customor.; aud the man lingriu' rouud, an' lookin' at the gooils like fulks that want to be custouiera and havu't got tho mouey! - Ex.