A BROKEN HEART.
A little china figure
On a little bracket sat.
His little feet were always crossed,
He wore a little hat;
And every morning, fair or foul,
In shine or shadow dim,
A pretty little housemaid came
And softly dusted him.
She took him up so gently.
And with such a charming air,
His china soul was melted quite;
He loved her to despair.
All day he sat and thought of her,
Until the twilight came.
And in his china dreams at night
He breathed her little name.
One day, while being dusted.
In his joy he trembled so
To touch her little fingers that,
Alas, she let him go!
In vain she tried to grab him back.
Fate willed it they should part;
He fell against the fender edge,
And broke his little heart.
Most of the units of measure (except the furlong and the pole) were derived originally from the length of parts of the "average" human body. The words "foot" and "hand" explain their origin; the "inch" was the length of the first joint of the thumb, and the yard that of the king's arm.
A Missouri woman is suing an editor because he said in an obituary that her husband had gone to a happier home. It never pays for an editor to say what he thinks when writing an obituary.
