onday
Till Sunday cums agin.

XCVIII.

A sunshiny shower,
Won't last half an hour.

XCIX.

As the days grow longer,
The storms grow stronger.

C.

As the days lengthen,
So the storms strengthen.

CI.

He that goes to see his wheat in May,
Comes weeping away.

CII.

The mackerel's cry,
Is never long dry.

CIII.

In July,
Some reap rye;
In August,
If one will not the other must.

CIV.

[Proverbial many years ago, when the guinea in gold was of a
higher value than its nominal representative in silver,]

A guinea it would sink,
And a pound it would float;
Yet I'd rather have a guinea,
Than your one pound note.

CV.

For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none.
If there be one, try and find it;
If there be none, never mind it.

CVI.

The art of good driving 's a paradox quite,
Though custom has prov'd it so long;
If you go to the left, you're sure to go right,
If you go to the right, you go wrong.

CVII.

Friday night's dream
On the Saturday told,
Is sure to come true,
Be it never so old.

CVIII.

When the sand doth feed the clay,
England woe and well-a-day!
But when the clay doth feed the sand,
Then it is well with Angle-land.

CIX.

The fair maid who, the first of May,
Goes to the fields at break of day,
And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree
Will ever after handsome be.

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FIFTH CLASS--SCHOLASTIC.

CX.

A diller, a dollar,
A ten o'clock scholar,
What makes you come so soon?
You used to come at ten o'clock,
But now you come at noon.

CXI.

Tell tale, tit!
Your tongue shall be slit,
And all the dogs in the town
Shall have a little bit.

CXII.

[The joke or the following consists in saying it so quick that
it cannot be told whether it is English or gibberish. It is
remarkable that the last two lines are quoted in MS. Sloan. 4,
of the fifteenth century, as printed in the 'Reliq. Antiq.,'
vol. i, p. 324.]

In fir tar is,
In oak none is.
In mud eel is,
In clay none is.
Goat eat ivy,
Mare eat oats.

CXIII.

[The dominical letters attached to the first days of the
several months are remembered by the following lines.]

At Dover Dwells George Brown Esquire,
Good Christopher Finch, And David Friar.

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