One View Of Marriage

I must give up my billiards, my beer and cigars - Never think about matinees, race, or bars, And make my malí income in some manner do, To furnish fóod, clothing, etcétera!, Tor two, The girl may be pretty and loving, I grant - Ferhaps she" can cook,but more likely she can t ; She may play tbe piano for "all that it'sworth, But as lor' her washing- vvby, heavens and earth ! N'o marriage for me, it's too mucho! a sham: i think that I'm far better off as I am. AXOTHF.lt VIEW. l'ra wearv oL bachelor Híe, I declare, Of a little hall bedroom and boarding-house f are; Xo pleasant eompaniouship, nothlue at all, ï long for a home, be it ever so small- For a home and t wife vho is cheerful and bright, tl "unlon Is rtrength," why, my notions are Mt wagea are suiall, but I think they will do, With a little cconomy, nlcely for two, l've my eye on agirk, and J'll ask that s fifi: 80 off go my slippers, and ho! for my nat I