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fl Y o li l' rfact’s coming, is lie? Ts that him 1 see
Just bobbing behind the ould black-thorn tree?
Why, that's Paddy McGinn”— (iO h !J’ said Kate with a sneer,
“ You have got your eyes open at last, Dickie dear;
Wei!, he’s coming to meet mo— now listen, my lad:
If Paddy should kiss me, sure, won’t you be glad?
For when his lips meet mine, why, what will I do
But shut both my eyes, Dickie, and fancy 'tis you.”

THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

TS an everlasting pity that the youngsters in the dty
Cannot celebrate the lesson which we gave to George the
Third;
When the Nation had to sit on the insufferable Briton—
Why, it’s scandalous. What ai's the city fathers, anyhow?
The old town won't burn up. A conflagration or two would
help to make things lively, and would rouse the Fire De*
partment from its chronic state of innocuous desuetude. I ’ll
load up with at! sorts of explosives, and my youngsters can
be patriotic in the back lot—•
And we’ll have the biggest jubilee the neighbors ever heard/'

So he loaded up his pockets, with torpedoes an cl with rockcts,
And a do^en packs of crackers tucked away beneath his arm.
Devil chasers, squibs and fizzes, every tiling that pops and whizzes—*
And, on the morning of the Fourth, he distributed frbom
among his offspring with a lavish hand. They blew up
miniature fortifications; defeated the British one by one;
constructed a Vesuvius or two, and were wildly happy
until, accidentally or otherwise, a pack of crackers went olT
in the old man's coat pocket, and they had to turn the
garden ho~e on him before—■
lie recovered his composure or dispelled his 'wife's alarm.