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What of it ? Why people spend winters there now—
Was that any credit to George ?

He got the gilt sword of Cornwallis, 'tis said,
And that was the end of the bother;
And yet, all the time he’d a sword of his own,
And why should he want any other?

A president then I believe he was made,
But that wasn’t much it would seem;
'T would have been something like it if he'd only been
A t the head of a foot-ball team.
H e n r y D a v en po k t.

HOW THREE WERE MADE ONE.
[The figures refer to the corresponding numbers m Part I.J

A C A N N 1K A L maid and her Hottentot Blade—
They met3 in a rocky defile ;
A gay eagle plume1(1 was his only costume,
The lady was wrapt in a— smile;
Tog ether they strolled, and his passion1* he told
In pleading ,s and tremulous tone,
While softly they trod on the blossom-strewn sod,
And spooned in the twilight alone.

Then sweetly she sighed as she shyly replied,
With tender and fairy-like mien;
She murmured the word, when a war whoop® was heard
A rival had burst3 on the scene.
A savage Zulu to the trysting place drew,
Demanding1* his Cannibal bride ;
But the Hottentot said, with a toss of his head,
" I ’ll have thys degenerate hide! ”