Don't fancy you'll finish this job
When you've scragged 'em and stifled their sobbins'!
If these Babes we should murder and rob,
_Their_ graves won't be left to the Robins!"
Rum tiddy, &c.
Of course after language like this
Those Robbers' relations grew "squiffy."
Each drew, cut and thrust, scored a miss,
And then they set-to in a jiffy.
The Babes, in no optimist mood,
Look on at the fight not unequal.
Will they safely get out of the Wood?
Well, that we shall see in the sequel!
Rum-tiddy-um, tiddy-um-tay!
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AN Anglo-Indian journal, quoted by the _Daily News_, suggests that the
Ameer of Afghanistan "might construct a telegraph line throughout his
country." Good idea. Of course it is A-meer suggestion.
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NO MORE APPEALS! NO CHANCE OF AN ERRONEOUS JUDGMENT!! NO WRONG
SENTENCES!!!--The new Judge must be always WRIGHT. Query--Can he sit
in Error?
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NAUTICAL AND ACADEMICAL QUESTION, IMPORTANT FOR MARINE PAINTERS.--How
much water must such an Artist draw before he is admitted into the
Royal Academy Harbour?
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[Illustration: THE BABES IN THE WOOD.
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