“| HE. SKATING Party

HIS is a skating party and we’re going home to dine;
We've been out all the morning ever since Hale pace nine,
And now we hear the dinner bell, so, hungry as can be,
We're rushing home to Mamma, with our faces full of glee.

Y ! hadn’t we a lovely time on the ice so smooth and hard—

The pond’s out in the meadow beyond Timothy’s back yard.
But your Tom had a dreadful fall, and he didn’t cry a tear,

io big folks were standing by to say to Tom, ‘‘Poor dear.”

   
  
  

So I just said ‘it; an at that Tom grew first red, then white,
And looked as if he'd like to fall again, just out of spite ;

But he didn’t, and instead of that he came close up to.me

And whispered, ‘‘ You're the zicest girl that ever I did see.”

OW if you ask Tom’s opinion about what’s best to play,
He'll surely say it’s skating though you fall down every day ;
At least that’s what he told to me, for you see Tom has no fear,
And if he should fall when I am by, I'll always say, ‘‘Poor dear.”

. CHARLOTTE,.F. Dacey.

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