Show Whittlers Goad Wishes A young woman once sat nt n hoarding house table beside a reserved re-served and awkward country boy whom she delighted to tease When she loft she asked him to write In her autograph album The poem which John 0 Whittier wrote there and which has just been published for the first time stands as a warning to other young ladles that she who laughs first nt a seemingly dumb countryman may be herself laughed c many years later The quaint concluding con-cluding stanza Is Thy life may nothing vex it Thy years be not a few And at thy final exit May the devil miss his due DoKton Transcript |