Never was more forcibly exemplified the truth of the old couplet:

I could not forbear reciting somewhat derisively the old couplet-

All which is well said in the old couplet-

The old couplet sang itself in his brain:

There was much comfort in the old couplet:-

There is truth in the old couplet, too:-

Mr. Chripp laughed, and paraphrased an old couplet.

The Englishman, pleased with my reasoning, wrote down the following old couplet, and gave it to me to read:

And, as the old couplet tells, they say too that the spirit of Gower's Well is not yet appeased.

As he handed to the conductor his mileage book, he did not say to him, lightly transposing the old couplet-

The old couplet which as a child she had been used to quote darted back into her mind with a torturing pang.

One of the old couplets, of which our forefathers were so fond, runs:

"You know, of course, the old couplet-'Whenthe wine flows the-'

I name it only because it embodies these old couplets, which still lead a vagabond life up and down the pages of country-almanacs:-