"'You are old, Widow Nolen,' the young man said, "'Yet your mind is as keen as a knife; "With facts and with figures you've filled up my head. "Should you do it at your time of life?'
"'In my youth,' said the sage, as he stopped for a drink, "'I was dull as an elderly cow; "And repeated each course so often, I think "That I ought to remember them now.'
"'You are old,' said the youth, 'and you doubtless are rich. "I suppose you can do as you please;