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& a' ONE STORY'S GOOD TILL ANOTHER IS TOLD. There's a maxim that all should be willing to mind; 'Tis an old one, a kind one, as true as 'tis kind; "Tis worthy of notice wherever you roam, And no worse for the heart if remembered at home. If scandal or censure be raised 'gainst a friend, - Be the last to believe it, the first to defend ; Say, to-morrow will come, and time will unfold That "one story's good till another is told,' A. friend, like a ship, when with music and song The tide of good fortune still speeds him along; But see him when tempest hath left him a wreck, And any mean billow can batter his deck ; But give me the heart that true sympathy shows, And clings to a mess-mate whatever wind blows; And says, when aspersion, unanswered, grows bold, Wait, "one story's good till another is told.'