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f< Der times vos dull, my butcher boy,
Der market vos no good,
Uriel if I sell”-— I squeezed tier handt
To show I understood.

Next day— oxcoose my biinv tears—■
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Dot shtocking took a shrink ;
I counted out twelve hundred ill
f)<:r cleanest kind o1 chink.

Und later, by two days or more,
Dot vidder shlopes avay ;
Und leaves a note behindt lor me
In vhtch dot vidder say :

“ D ear. S itake i
Der rose vos redt,
Der violet blue—
You see Fve left,
Und you’re left, too ! "

BE BRAVE.

T y H E N sudden cry shall rend the air
That hardest heart would move,
Be ready then to rush to her,
Your gallantry to prove,
When her eyes dilate with horror,
And her cheek doth pale with fear,

And you think that some torpedo
Has exploded very near,
Do not send for some quack doctor,
Nor for a vinaigrette*