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Show Feg Tankards. The pegging or marking of drinking cups was introduced by St. Dnnstan to check the intemperato habits of the times by preventing one man from taking tak-ing a iarger draft than his companions. But the device proved the means of increasing in-creasing the evil it was intended to remedy, for, refining upon St. Dunstan's plan, the most abstemious were required to drink precisely to a peg or pin, whether they could soberly take such a quantity of liquor or not. To the use of such cups may be traced the origin of many of our popular phrases. When a person is much elated, we will say, "Ho is in a merry pin," and "He is a peg too low," when he is not in good spirits. On the same principle we talk of "taking a man down a peg" when we would check forwardness. Sala's Journal. FEET. A plump littlo foot as whits as the snow. Belonging to rollicking, frolicsome Joe, Tn a little red sock, with a hole in the to, And a hole in the heel as well. A trim little foot in a trim little shoe, Belonging to sixteen-year-old Miss Sue, And looking a3 if it knew Just what to do. And do it in a way that would tell. A ve'y largo foot in a homely array, Belor.jin to Peter who follows the dray. So big that it sometimes is in Its own way And moves with the speed of a snail. Ahl a very big thing is the human foot. In dainty made shoe or in clumsy boot. So 'tis well there are various tastes to suit. And that fashion can't always prevail. The plump little foot a beautiful sight And the trim little foot, so taper and slight. And the very largo foot, though much of a fricht, Are traveling all the same road. And it matters but littlo how small or how great, ' So they never crow weary of paths thatoro W. t ,aat walk in at the golden gate O? the city whose builder is God. Evangelist. |