every mark of intellectual expression.--_Lady Morgan's "O'Briens and
O'Flahertys."_

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THE WEE MAN.


It was a merry company.
And they were just afloat,
When lo! a man of dwarfish span
Came up and hail'd the boat.

"Good morrow to ye, gentle folks,
And will you let me in?
A slender space will serve my case,
For I am small and thin."

They saw he was a dwarfish man,
And very small and thin;
Not seven such would matter much,
And so they took him in.

They laugh'd to see his little hat,
With such a narrow brim;
They laugh'd to note his dapper coat,
With skirts so scant and trim.

But barely had they gone a mile,