"_A bit of bobbin here--a hat feather there_," I continued, growing
malicious.

"Sir," cried L----, starting round in a passion. Fixing his eyes for a
moment on my wooden phiz, however, he burst into a fit of laughter,
and then as suddenly assuming a most doleful change of countenance, he
squeezed my hand and said to me apart, in a tragic tone, "Ah, my dear
friend, you were right--you were right."

"He that would lead a happy married life,
First learn to rule, and then to have, a wife,"
say Beaumont and Fletcher--and a pleasant
aphorism it is too--and a wise and
useful--but with a slight alteration, a
periphrasis comprehending advice not less
to the purpose may be presented--

"He that would lead a happy wedded life,
Beware of marrying a _too_ youthful wife."

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USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS.


FININGS FOR WINES.