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While I care for neither the clapping or chcers,
But I hope you'll come down with the stamps.

W e’ve a load on our back you can lighten, if
You will add to the backs that bear it;
It’s greenback's we ask— 'you’ll please give us one,
If able and willing to spare i t .

W e know that you will, for we've watched you to-night,
While you listened to speech and to song;
And knew, by the good-natured look of your face,
You were anxious to help us along.

Good-night, I retire; to this I feel sure
That you've not the slightest objection;
f > I will get down; the Committee get up,
And when up will take up the collection.

BETTER WHISTLE THAN WHINE.
A S I was taking a walk, I noticed two little boys on their way to
school. The small one stumbled and fell, and, though he
was not very much hurt, he began to whine in a babyish way—
not a regular roaring boy cry, as though he were half killed, but a
little cross whine.
The older boy took his hand in a kind and fatherly way, and said :
O, never mind, Jimmy, don't whine; it is a great deal belier to
whistle.” And he began in the merriest way a cheerful boy whistle,
Jimmy tried to join In the whistle. “ I can’t whistle as nice as you,
Charlie/’ said he; a my lips won’t pucker up good.”
“ O, that is because you have not got all the whine out yet,” said
Charlie; “ but you try a minute and the whistle will drive the whine
away.” So he did, and the last I saw or heard of the little fellows
they were whistling away as earnestly as though that was the chief
end of life.