Seen on a Liverpool hoarding:--

"Quo Vadis: Whither goest thou in eight reels?"

_Answer_. "Anywhere in reason, but not home."

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IN THE GARDEN OF ALLAH.

Weary of the struggle and the squalors
Which beset the politician's life--
Work that for a modicum of dollars
Brings a whole infinity of strife--
Three of England's most illustrious cronies
Started on a winter holiday,
With no thought of MURRAY or Marconis--
GEORGE and HENRY and the great TAY PAY.

Never since ÆNEAS and his raiders
Stayed with DIDO in the days of yore
Did such irresistible invaders
Land upon the Carthaginian shore.
GEORGE, of course, the largest crowds attended,
But I'm told the kind Algerians say
That ÆNEAS wasn't half so splendid
Or so pious as the good TAY PAY.

Noble sheikhs and black and bearded Bashas
Bowed, whene'er they met them, to the ground;