MR. DAY’S SHORT DAY.

Mr. Thomas Day, of D----t, Wilts, used, when living, to give his workmen

on St. Thomas’s Day a holiday, a short pint of his ale, an ounce of

short-cut tobacco, and a short pipe, in remembrance of his name. “For,”

said he,--in a couplet decidedly his own,--

“Look round the village where ye may;

Day is the shortest day, to-day.”