LOCALITY--_The cellar stair and the cellar_.
PRESENT--DAVID _and_ RUTH.

THE QUESTION ILLUSTRATED BY NATURE.

_Ruth_.

Look where you step, or you'll stumble!
Care for your coat, or you'll crock it!
Down with your crown, man! Be humble!
Put your head into your pocket,
Else something or other will knock it.
Don't hit that jar of cucumbers
Standing an the broad-stair!
They have not waked from their slumbers
Since they stood there.

_David_.

Yet they have lived in a constant jar!
What remarkable sleepers they are!

_Ruth_.

Turn to the left--shun the wall--
One step more--that is all!
Now we are safe on the ground,
I will show you around.

Sixteen barrels of cider