The Lady and the Tiger.

He thought he saw a worthy foe the shafts of logic hurl;

He looked again and saw it was a silly college girl.

"Pray don't debate with me!" he said;

"I must not waste a pearl."

He dreamt he saw a telegram from maidens much enthused;

He looked again, and saw he had politely been refused.

"My pride is wrecked in either case,"

He said; "I feel ill used."

She thought she heard a tiger-cat a peering through the blind;

She harked again, and found it was he moaning of the wind.

"Poor thing!" she said, "poor haughty thing!

He doesn't know his mind." VASSAR MISCELLANY NEWS.