In complement extern, had that within, 2. A change came o'er the color of my hat. That, which was black, grew brown, and then men stared With both their eyes (they stared with one before ;) Be worn, by one who might but let that pass! I had my reasons, which might be revealed, But, for some counter reasons far more strong, The hat was worn, and borne. Then folks grew wild With curiosity; and whispers rose, And questions passed about, how one so trim In coats, boots, pumps, gloves, trousers, could ensconce His caput in a covering so vile. 3. A change came o'er the nature of my hat. Thoughts that do lie too deep for common minds. The hat was now greasy, and old, and torn; 4. A change came o'er the business of this hat. 5. A change it was the last-came o'er this hat. Of Israel's fated race; and friends once more Once more grew doubtless, jokeless, laughless, growlless: And last, not least of rescued blessings, love— Love smiled on me again, when I assumed LESSON XLV. DOCTOR AND PUPIL. ANONYMOUS. 1. A PUPIL of the Esculapian school, 2. Was just prepared to quit his master's rule; One morn he thus addressed his master: "Dear sir, my honored father bids me say, If I could now and then a visit pay, He thinks, with you, to notice how you do, My business I might learn a little faster." 3. "The thought is happy," the preceptor cries; "A better method he could scarce devise; So Bob," (his pupil's name,) " it shall be so; And when I next pay visits, you shall go." To bring that hour, alas! time briskly fled: With dire intent, away they went, And now, behold them at a patient's bed. 4. The master doctor solemnly perused His victim's face, and o'er his symptoms mused; Looked wise, said nothing-an unerring way, When people nothing have to say: Then felt his pulse, and smelt his cane, And paused, and blinked, and smelt again, 5. And briefly of his corps performed each motion; Manoeuvers that for death's platoon are meant: A kind of a make-ready-and-present, Before the fell discharge of pill and potion. At length, the patient's wife he thus addressed: "Madam, your husband's danger's great, And (what will never his complaint abate,) The man's been eating oysters, I perceive." "Dear! you're a witch, I verily believe," Madam replied, and to the truth confessed. 6. Skill so prodigious, Bobby, too, admired; And home returning, of the sage inquired How these same oysters came into his head? "Pshaw! my dear Bob, the thing was plain; Sure, that can ne'er distress thy brain; I saw the shells lie underneath the bed." 7. So wise by such a lesson grown, Next day Bob ventured out alone, And to the self-same sufferer paid his court; But soon, with haste and wonder out of breath, Returned the stripling minister of death, And to his master made this dread report: 8. "Why, sir, we ne'er can keep that patient under; Zounds! such a man I never came across! The fellow must be dying-and no wonder, For ne'er believe me if he hasn't eat a horse!" 9. "A horse!" the elder man of physic cried, As if he meant his pupil to deride; "How got so wild a notion in your head?" "How !—think not in my duty I was idle; Like you, I took a peep beneath the bed. And there I saw a saddle and a bridle!' LESSON XLVI. ADDRESS TO DR MOYCE, BY THE LADIES. 1. DEAR doctor, let it not transpire, Of which we never heard before. 2. But now, dear doctor, not to flatter, A matter which our thoughts run much on, A subject, if we right conjecture, Teach us the marks of love's beginning, |