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A FACT.


Pat went to his mistress: "My lady, your mare
_In harness_, goes well as a dray-horse, I swear:
I tried, as you're thinking to sell her, or let her,
For _coming on_ thus, she'll _go off_ all the better."

"Twas very well thought of" the lady replied,
"You've acted a sensible part.
But Patrick, pray tell me the day that you tried,
Of whom did you borrow the cart?"

"The _cart_? why, she _walk'd_ well _in harness_, I saw,
But I thought not, by no _manes_, to try if she'd _draw_;
For says I, by Saint Patrick, who, her comes to view,
To tell him, she has been 'in harness' will do!"

M.L.B.

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THE MONTHS.