The American comic almanack for 1831 : with whims, scraps and oddities : calculated for the meridian of Boston, lat42, long71, but will answer for all New England . e water mixed with a little saU. whichvill preserve them fresh for years. THE FIRST PAIR. Adajvi alone could not be easy,So he must have a wife an please ye :^nd how did he procure this wife,To cheer his solitary life ?Out of a rib, sir, from his side,Was formd this necessary bride :But how did he the pain beguile ?How ?—He slept sweetly all the while ;And when this rib was re-applied,In womans form to Adams side,How, then, I pray
The American comic almanack for 1831 : with whims, scraps and oddities : calculated for the meridian of Boston, lat42, long71, but will answer for all New England . e water mixed with a little saU. whichvill preserve them fresh for years. THE FIRST PAIR. Adajvi alone could not be easy,So he must have a wife an please ye :^nd how did he procure this wife,To cheer his solitary life ?Out of a rib, sir, from his side,Was formd this necessary bride :But how did he the pain beguile ?How ?—He slept sweetly all the while ;And when this rib was re-applied,In womans form to Adams side,How, then, I pray you, did it answer * He never slept so sweet again, sir. A LEGAL Lamb (an old man at the time the late Lord Erskineyas in the height of his reputation) was a man of timid mannersnd nervous disposition, and usually prefixed his pleadings within apology to that effect, on one occasion, when opposed to Ers^Line, he happened to remark that he felt himself growing moremd more timid as he grew older ? No wonder replied thevltty but relentless barrister, u every one knows that the oldt©r aamb grows, the more sheepish he becomes. 32 WORKING COWS. u Why should the cow be exempted from the labours of thefield, while the wife and daughter of the farmer are expected ancrequired to be daily employed in cooking, washing, baking, spin-ning, milking, and making butter and cheese ? Ought a farmerto treat his cows more tenderly than his wife and children ? Ina work written by the famous Arthur Young, entitled u Young^sEastern Tour, it is remarked, that Mr. Bakewell, a famousEnglish cultivator, used to draw with oxen, but now draws alwith cows. Mr. B. finds them full as handy as oxen, and thatthey draw just as well as oxen of the same size. Indeed, we cansee no reason why cows should be exempted from labour any moreMian mares. The only objection to cows being trained to theyoke of which we are aware, is, that for some time before and afterealring they will not b
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