(through necessity) have a new or awkward horse taken into their team,
by which they are hindered and hampered, they frequently observe, "This
is as bad as ploughing with dogs." This proverb is in the country so
common, that it is applied to anything difficult or abstruse: even at a
rubber at whist, I have heard the minor party execrate the business in
these words, "It is as bad as ploughing with dogs," give it up for lost,
change chairs, cut for partners, and begin a new game.

H.B.A.

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CROESUS.--A DRAMATIC SKETCH.

(_For the Mirror_.)


_Cyrus, Courtiers, and Officers of State. Croesus bound upon the funeral
pile which is guarded by Persian soldiers, several of them bearing
lighted torches, which they are about to apply to the pile_.

_Croesus_.--O, Solon, Solon, Solon.

_Cyrus_.--Whom calls he on?

_Attendant_.--Solon, the sage.

_Croesus_.--How true thy words
No man is happy till he knows his end.