are.

Saving leap year, when one day
Added is to gain lost time;
May it not be spent in play,
Nor in any evil crime.

Time is short, we often say;
Let us, then, improve it well;
That eternally we may
Live where happy angels dwell.

AVOIRDUPOISE WEIGHT.

Sixteen drachms are just an ounce,
As you'll find at any shop;
Sixteen ounces make a pound,
Should you want a mutton chop.

Twenty-eight pounds are the fourth
Of an hundred weight call'd gross;
Four such quarters are the whole
Of an hundred weight at most.

Oh! how delightful,
Oh! how delightful,
Oh! how delightful,
_To sing this rule_.

Twenty hundreds make a ton;
By this rule all things are sold
That have any waste or dross
And are bought so, too, I'm told.

When we buy and when we sell,
May we always use just weight;
May we justice love so well
To do always what is right.

Oh! how delightful,
&c., &c., &c.

APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT.

Twenty grains make a scruple,--some scruple to take;
Though at times it is needful, just for our health's sake;
Three scruples one drachm, eight drachms make one ounce,
Twelve ounces one pound, for the pestle to pounce.

By this rule is all medicine mix'd, though I'm told
By Avoirdupoise weight 'tis bought and 'tis sold.
But the best of all physic, if I may advise,
Is temperate living and good exercise.

DRY MEASURE.

Two pints will make one quart
Of barley, oats, or rye;
Two quarts one pottle are, of wheat
Or any thing that's dry.

Two pottles do one gallon make,
Two gallons one peck fair,
Four pecks one bushel, heap or brim,
Eight bushels one quarter are.

If, when you sell, you give
Good measure shaken down,
Through motives good, you will receive
An everlasting crown.

ALE AND BEER MEASURE.

Two pints will make one quart,
Four quarts one gallon, strong:--
Some drink but little, some too much,--
To drink too much is wrong.

Eight gallons one firkin make,
Of liquor that's call'd ale
Nine gallons one firkin of beer,
Whether 'tis mild or stale.

With gallons fifty-four
A hogshead I can fill:
But hope I never shall drink much,
Drink much whoever will.

WINE, OIL, AND SPIRIT MEASURE.

Two pints will make one quart
Of any wine, I'm told:
Four quarts one gallon are of port
Or claret, ne