A AT.XCTIAK STORY.

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LXXI.

They lock them up, and veil, and giiclrd them daily,They scarcely can behold their male relations,fio that their moments do not pass so gaily

As is supposed the ease with northern nations;Confinement, too, must make them look quite

palely:

And as the Turks abhor long conversations,Their days are either past in doing nothing,

Or bathing, nursing, making love, and clothing-

LXXII.

They cannot read, and so don’t lisp in criticism ;Nor write, and so they don’t affect the muse;ere never caught in epigram or witticism,

Have no romances, sermons, plays, reviews,-—In liarams learning soon would make a pretty

schism!

But luckily these beauties are no „blucs, <£

No bustling Botherbys have they to show’em,,I'hat charming passage in the last new poem."