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Ha! I thought so! There go the whole of the water-fowl under that
luggage-train.
It is true, the Gardens are ruined, but one must not forget the
inestimable advantage to the shareholders of the public being able to
get from Paddington to Chelsea in a tunnel for twopence.
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QUERY FOR NEXT ELECTION.--No man has a vote until he has attained his
majority. How about some districts where they are nearly all Miners?
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MEN WHO HAVE TAKEN ME IN--TO DINNER.
(_BY A DINNER-BELLE._)
NO. II.--DON JUAN SENIOR.
To share with men the prandial gloom
Of union forced that fatal custom
Decrees to wither "youth and bloom,"
(The phrase is from _Sohrab and Rustum_)
I've suffered boredom to the full;
Professors dull--of Hindostani!
Dull wits, dull statesmen, dandies dull--
He wasn't dull--was Don GIOVANNI.
A widower _feted_ far and wide,
The jauntiest Rake who drinks the waters,
Smartest of "smart" vulgarians, pride
And terror of his decent daughters;
_Old_ Don GIOVANNI, fraught with warm
Flirtations, free to fling his cash on
The dining Duchess, "mould of form!"
Antique, good-looking "glass of fashion."
[Illustration]
He gossiped how the Viscount bets
(Some heiress he must really "pick up"),
How noble dames smoke cigarettes
And noble heels in ballets kick up.
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