Cooking And Courting

i Var Ned, no doubt, yon'll be snrprlsed When you recelve and read thls kater; I've ral led agalnst the married state - . But then, jou see, L knew nu better. I niet a lovely girl out here ; Her tnanuer la - wel] - very winning; We're soon to be - well Ned, - my dear, I'll teil you all from tlie begiuning. I went to ask her out to rlde Last Wednesday - it was perfect weather She Baid she couldn't possibly; The Bervants had gone off together - (Hlbernians always rush away, At cousins' Cuncrals to be looking) - Pies must be made, and she must stay, Shc said, to do that brancb o:' cooking. " Oh, let me help you," then I crled : " I'll be a cooker, too, how jolly !" She Ianghed and answered vrith n'smile, "All riht: but yon'll repent your folly, For I shall be a tyrant, slr. And good hard worlc you'll have tograp ple : So sit down there, and don't you stir, But take thls knife and pare that apple." SIip ï'oiled her slceve abovc her arm - That lovely arm, so plump and roundcd ; Ontside the momlng sim shone brlght, lnglde, the dough shc dei tl y poonded. Her little flngers sprinkled flour And rolled the plecrus) up ba masses 1 passed a most dellghtrnl hour, '.Miil butler, sngar and molasscs. With deep reñectlon her sweet eyea Gazed m each pot and pao and kettlc ; She Bliced the apples, Blled hw pies, And tlien tlie upper Crusi dtd Bettle. lier rippllDg waves ui' golden hall' In one great coll wen.' slightly twlsted ; Bui locks would break it bere and there, And curl about where'er they lisied. We're to bc marrled, Ned, next month : Come and altend the weddtng reveis. I really think that bachelors Air ilib most miserable devils ' You'd bettei' go tof some girl's hand, And if you are uncertaln whethei' You dare to make a duo deniand, Why, just try cooking pies together.