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will serve : a maggot eaten too swiftly, a wrong perch 

 hopped upon, a scurrilous remark uttered and they 

 are at it hammer and tongs, and, like the ' laidys dahn 

 East,' the hens are the worst offenders. 



ROSY PASTOR. 



From morning till night my lady Pastor scolds 

 her better half; 'but then,' as a man once said to me, 

 'you can get used to aught,' speaking anent a scold- 

 ing wife ; ' I just lets as if I don't hear what she says, 

 as if she were a trickle of water, as you might say, 

 that goes bubble, bubble, bubble, till you forget to listen 

 to it.' And it is the same with my poor cock, he just 

 takes no notice. He always allows her the last word. 

 It is strangely pleasing to men, now and then, to let a 



