_The late Harvest._--In connexion with the present late and disastrous
harvest, permit me to contribute a distich current, as an old farmer
observed to-day, "when I was a boy:"
"When we carry wheat o' the fourteenth of October,
Then every man goeth home sober."
Meaning that the prospect of the "yield" was not good enough to permit the
labourers to get drunk upon it.