Nancy’s forte, and if she entertained her turtle-dove with much conversation as per sample, he was hardly to be blamed for trying a little change. In 1853 a sad and suffering husband sought consolation from the Muse, and published his lines in a Connecticut paper. Though not strictly in accordance with the rules laid down by authorities, they contain a good deal in a small space:—
Levi Rockwell.
East Windsor, Conn. Aug. 4, 1853.
Another husband also flies to verse for consolation, and records both his experiences and his determination in the following notice:—
Henry Kanute.
Big Suamico, Oct. 13, 1870.
Still another husband, after publishing some supposed grievances in the public prints, is made to see the error of his ways, and eats the leek in the following manner, and in a New York paper. Verse is here the sign not of the disease but of the remedy:—
WHEREAS I,