"
The truth was clear--I quickly sent him back his lovely _cartes_,
His bangle, and his poetry of Cupid and his darts.
I said to him how grieved I was his love had thus miscarried--
And then I found out everything; alas! the wretch was married.
So here am I, as beautiful as anyone I know,
You couldn't get a better wife, no matter where you go.
And if you know, dear _Mr. Punch_, a husband, say you've seen a
Nice girl, who'd make him happy and whose name is
ANGELINA.
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WHY THE DUES WERE THEY DONE AWAY WITH?--Under the beneficent influence
of the early coal dews--subsequently spelt coal dues--which have
existed from the earliest times, City and Metropolitan Improvements
have sprung up into existence. Now, thanks to ignorant, but
well-meaning County Councillors, the coal dues being abolished, up
goes the price of coal, up go the rates, and there is no surplus
for improvement of any sort. If those ancient days of coal dues were
considered "hard times," then sing we, in chorus, "Hard times, come
again once more!"
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[Illustration: PRIG-STICKING.
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