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So quietly am passing b y!
Your head or mine! ” A thundering- stroke;
The cracking; horns iriet crashing oak!

Then came a dull and muffled sound,
And something rolled along the ground,
Got up, looked sad. appeared to say :
“ Your head's Loo hard!” and limped away
Quite humbly, in a rumpled coat—
A dirtier and a wiser go at!
J ohn T o w n sen d T r o w b r id g e.

THE McSWATS SW EAR OFF.

[W ithout speaking the word "p u ff11 imitate the puff of one stnoking.]
■y O JBELIA, my love, another long- and delightful evening is
\ j before us.”
The young husband was arrayed in a dressing-gown of
gorgeous, variegated and dazzling complexion. He sat in a luxurious
armchair and rested his tired feet on the soft plush cushions of two
other chairs. In his hand he held a magazine of large print which lie
was trying laboriously to read with the aid of an eye-glass he had
purchased under the deep and solemn conviction that his position in
society required him to use something of the kind.
" I s there anything else I can do for your comfort, Billiger?"
tenderly inquired the young wife.
“ I think not, Lobelia/’ he replied after considering a few moments;
" though if you will kindly open that package of 1 Lone Jack ’ and
put the smoking set within reach I shall be obliged.”
Mrs. McSwat did so, and with her own fair hands she filled his new
meerschaum, whose bowl was already taking a brownish tinge that
gave promise of richer and grander result in the happy future.
"Y o u don’t know, Lobelia (pud), how gratefully I (puff) appre­
ciate your (puff) kindness in interposing no objection to my indulgence