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And when, one day, il took the "N e x t !”
To stiy some GalKc slaughter,
Because I quite forget the text
In smiling at his daughter,
Anti .she arid I were “ kept till four
To stLidv. after closing,'*

We stopped the clock an hour or more
While he, poor man, was dozing!

And there he sits, with bended head,
O ’er some old volume poring
(Or so he thinks: if truth be said
He's fast asleep and snoring),
And where the shaded lamplight plays
Aero as the cradle's rocking,
Mv schoolmate of the olden davs
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Sits, mending baby's stocking.

CtlAKLlio li (j O!N<?

OJNH OF T H E HEROES.

[Rc;ul rapidly and wit.Is intense feeling. J
A R K ,— through the wild night's darkness rings out a terrible cry,
H And the v/oinan shudders toil car it m Liie room up close to the sky,

“ Fire/'in accents of terror, and voices the cry repeat,
And the firc-beils join in the clamor oat in the stormy street.

Cod grant we are safe, my darling/' she says to tile child in her arms,
While the voices far down in the darkness add to the hell’s alarms;
Then she thinks of the two little children who are sleeping peacefully
near,
And “ God pity the people in danger/' she adds with a thrill of fen1.'.

The voices ring louder and louder. She hears the swift tread of feet
And the sound of engines rum^i;’ig below in the stormy street.