To get a thing at one-and-four,
For which your friend pays twopence more,
Is balm unto the soul.

And cheaper than that Hansom cab
Whose tale I've told thee thus,
Far cheaper it had been to take
The stately omnibus!

To take the stately omnibus
Where all together sit;
Each takes his ticket in his hands,
Obeys the Company's commands,
And pays his pence for it.

And if you would not find yourself
Wrecked in the Edgware Road,
Do not be vulgar and declare
You wish you may be blowed!

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THE "MASHER'S" ANSWER,

[Dr. ARABELLA KENEALY, in the _Westminster Review_, is severe on the
young men of the day for not dancing, and avoiding matrimony.]

Bless me, Doctor ARABELLA,