Now 1 should like to know, missus, what yon wood say if you seed your husband coming back from the mill in that there state.” “ Well Jemmy,” says she, “ there’s no doubt under those ere circumstances that you’d dirty my bed clothes most considerably, and it would take a week to polish you again, besides wasting the soap and the water, and the grog I should give you to drive the cold out.” “ How is it Jemmy,” says she,” that the Grey town people do allow their rodes to get in such an unpassible state ?” “ Why missus,” says I, “the Greytown people have no rodes, and they prefer walking in the mud to having them, because they don’t like to pay a trifle for their own comfort and convenience. They be sleepy hanimals about Greytown, they sleeps too long in the morning because they heats too much o’ nights, and they washes down what they heats with stuff that is’nt recommended by the Temperance Society’s. That’s what they does! And why do they do it upon sich an hextensive and hexpensive scale then,” says my missus ? “ Why,” says I, “ because there be four public houses in Greytown, when there be only business enough for two, and therefore out of pure and unadulterated friend ship they drinks to keep the publicans re spectable, and make them pay their dets. When the Magistrates granted ’em the glorious privi leges of setting up a sign in the heavens, they told the huntstables to go round the town and sing—

Let those drink who never drank before, And those who drank now drink the more. “Yes, Missus, there be no people that fol lows good advice like the Greytown people.” “ Then why don’t they make good rodes ?” says she. “ Because they have’nt time to think about them. 