MISCELLANEOUS AETICLES. 411 



In Thyme he found himself to be 



Concord by Cupid's dart, 

 He Early Rose and sought his choice, 



Laid bear his Bleeding Heart, 

 And thus to her the felloe spoke,— 



" I never tire of thee, 

 Be yolkcd with me, my Duchess Queen, 



And I your ' ' hub " will be. 



"'Twixt us there shall no Warfield be, 



I am yours to command ; 

 Furlong my O.r-hcart you've possessed, 



Now take my harvest hand.'''' 

 " Seek-no-farther, John Deere,'" she said, 



" Sulky though I may seem, 

 I'll bee your maU, and lettuce now 



Make a good double team.'''' 



So clad in rich Red Astrachan, 



Cut gourd, with yoke and bov;s, 

 Made by the latest cattle-log, 



With "Planet Jr." hoes; 

 A Matnmoth Cluster of Little Gems 



About her Nectarine ; 

 With Peach Blows in her flaxen hair, 



This fair Italian Queen. 



With Jonathan a garden 'er, 



The bridal path drove past, 

 A Dominie found empowered to 



With a twine binder fast. 

 Onion der hillside they now dwell, 



Beside a single-tree, 

 Whose Limbertwigs their cottage shade, 



They live in hominy. 



FARMERS' SONS WHO BECAME FAMOUS. 



Washington, Adams, Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler, 

 Polk, Taylor, Buchanan, Lincoln and Garfield were all born on farms ; 

 Henry Ward Beecher was a country boy, who loved farm-life all his 

 days ; William M. Evarts came from a farm in Vermont ; Ohauncey 

 M. Depew used to run barefoot around IVeksville until Vanderbilt took 

 a fancy to him ; Whitelaw Reid is from Ohio, and was thirty years rid- 

 ding his hair of hay-seed; De Witt Talinage first expanded his lungs 

 calling to an ox team; he still looks country all over ; Sunset Cox hoed 

 potatoes as a lad on his father's farm near Zanesville, Ohio ; Abrain 



