Pray you, let me not be saddled
With a single "clear" or addled.
See! the temperature is steady.
Now then, Goddess, _are you ready?_

Hear me, Goddess, next invoking
You to keep the lamp from smoking,
And, the plea so humbly voiced, you're
_Sure_ to regulate the moisture?
Oh, Lucina, 'twill be ripping
When we hear the eggs all pipping!

When no chick the shell encumbers,
Goddess, hear their tuneful numbers!
Then, O patroness of hatches,
We will try some further batches.
Goddess, hear me!--oh, incline a
Gracious ear to me, Lucina!

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"MATRIMONY.--Two young, respectable fellows wish to meet two
respectable young girls, between the ages of 20 and 30, view
above.--T.S.R. and E.C.P., Clematis P.O., Paradise."--_Melbourne
Argus._

If marriages are made in heaven these respectable young fellows have
selected a really promising postal address.

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