te hight, ' f

Jut skirting the beauties forbidden to sight. ''

' Tripping ' ' . -" '

. 'Laughing, ' ' . N

" ' Hurrying by i ' ' '

With a smile on the lip and coy glance of the eye, '

And the little dogs bark, and with ioyoos bouud '"--

Snap at the tilters that eddy around i

The town is alive and euch heart in a whirl '

To welcome) ttia coming of each lovely girl.' "'

Bow lovely they look aa they teeter along, s ,-,

ilsiltne; each other with kisses and song, . N ,. ,

And pant a poor fellow like ineleors flask by, ,

Bright for a moment, then loat to the eyo. :J .

,; Wriggling, .. i... : .............

Swinging, . . it j ., , , i : -1,

Dualling they go, ...

Disregarding the breeze that playa havoo below, .

Willi long Homing trail, e pure, as the sky, .

To be trampled in mud by the crowd rushing by l

To be tnunpied and tracked, by dozens of feet, .

Till it blende with Mill in the horrible street. . , i ,

One I tripped on a tiller, and fell, ,

Jnat aa I passed a gaily-dressed hells

Fell, and any beaver rolled out la I lie street", 'I .7,

Veil, to bo ecoU'ed at and jeered at and heat,. ,. ,. ... ,

Scrambling. , . ..,.,.., ,, .,

.1 ,, i .... Cursing, ' , s, .i .,, ,

Dreading to rise, ,

Ana afraid, on my aval, to open my eyes i ''.,' '

Above aud around me the broadest expanse

Of hoops that e'er tilled iu giddy round dance. ' , , ,

Wildly at lust I darted without,'

And dualled down the atreot ua the boya raised n shout.

Once I was grocn as the greenest of leuf, ' '

Nothing too big to exceed my belief t

Kyery girl Intighcd at my innocent grace, ' '' '

Aiid vowed that I looked at naught else but her face.