An Appropriate Epitaph

blind and doformed Scoüish neudlewoniaii, named Maiy Pyfer, dicd rcoeutly in Edinburgh. She was of remarknble short stature, of very plaiu features, and vay poor, but uhe was moro reinarkable as bi'ii:g a poetesa of nu trican order A oolleotion of her Ulied ia 1865 lor her benefit. Tlio London Scolsman gives the followipg epitaph from lier pen as m appropriate close to iier hmnblo sior : I camp at morn - 'twas spring, I smlled, The Belas wlth green were ciad; I walked abroad at noon - nul lo ! 'Twas Bommel - I wasjjlad. I pato me down ; 'twas antumn cve, i I wlth sadnesa vept ; 1 lald ino iluivii at ni;;lit, hikI then 'Twas winter - and i slcpt. " Motber," sniu a littlo girl wlio was eng;ii.'cd in making her do!l an opron, " 1 believe I Bh all be a dncliess when I fjrow up.:' " IIow do you ever expeot to b coma a duchess, my daughter T' hor niotlier osked. " Why, by marryiog a Dutcbiuau, to bo eure," tho girl BSftliod.