Here comes the Bogie Man!
Turtle, be cautious; Griffin, hide!
You're under his black ban.
Oh, whist! whist! whist!
"We'll save ye, _if we can_,
My pretty popsey-wopsey-wops,
From yon bad Bogie Man!

* * * * *

TO QUEEN COAL.

(_BY HER FOND BUT POOR LOVER._)

"If thou art not dear to _me_,
What care I how dear you be!"

* * * * *

BUTTER AND BOSH.

["Many customers who want Margarine will not consent to
buy it under that name, but insist on its being called
'Butter.'"--_Daily Paper_.]

Oh, Wisdom, surely here your words you waste
On men who consciously deceive their taste;
Who cheating self are blindest when they've seen,
And call that Butter which is Margarine.
"Give me," 'tis thus their sentiments they utter,