The Silver Wedding

A wedding of Silver!—and what shall we do?" I said in response to my excellent spouse, Who hinted, this morning, we ought to renew According to custom, our conjugal vows.

"I wouldn't much mind it, now—if—and suppose— The bride were a blooming—Ah! well—on my life, I think—to be candid—(don't turn up your nose!) That every new wedding should bring a new wife!"

"And what if it should?" was the laughing reply; "Do you think, my dear John, you could ever obtain Another so fond and so faithful as I, Should you purchase a wig, and go courting again?"

"Ah! darling," I answered, "'tis just as you say;" And clasping a waist rather shapely than small, I kissed the dear girl in so ardent a way You wouldn't have guessed we were married at all!

September 9, 1866.