A JOKE VERSIFIED.
Reading edition
"Come, come," said Tom's father, "at your time of life, "There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake— "It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife"— "Why, so it is, father—whose wife shall I take?"
Reading edition
"Come, come," said Tom's father, "at your time of life, "There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake— "It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife"— "Why, so it is, father—whose wife shall I take?"