Must wish he had Mahatmas at _his_ back.

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The Beggar's Petition.

(_New Version._)

Life must not be lost, Sir, with lightness,
To _labour_ for life gives me pain;
My exchequer's affected with tightness,
But begging's the pink of politeness,
Like Scribes, Sir, "I beg--to _remain!_" *

* And didn't CHARLES LAMB, in his most delightful essay _On the
Decay of Beggars_, deplore their gradual disappearance?

* * * * *

DOCTOR LAURIE.

_Song by a Scotch Student_. AIR--"_Annie Laurie_."

["According to Dr. LAURIE, of Edinburgh University, the "teaching of Greek,
so far as it is attempted in our secondary schools, is positively
harmful."--_Daily News._]

Pedagogue brays are bonnie,
When Greek they'd fain taboo;
And 'tis here that Doctor LAURIE