text:  As for the old couple time although silvering the temples and furrowing the front is hardly seen to lay his heavy hand upon the shoulder of either much less to put his finger on eyes ears or lips--the two first being yet as "wide awake " and the last as open to a joke or any other good thing as ever they were; in sooth it is no unpleasing sight to see this jolly old couple with nearly three half centuries to answer for their affection unimpaired faculties unclouded and temper undisturbed by the near approach beyond hope of respite of that stealthy foe whose assured advent strikes terror to us all