Many gone?
Fire! Where?
Here's a scare!!

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[Illustration: A NEW WAY OF PAYING CHURCH DEBTS.

(_Vide "Liverpool Daily Post," July 23 1891._)]

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UPON A GLOVE.

(_AFTER THE FASHION--MORE OR LESS--OF HERRICK._)

Oh, limp and leathery type of Social Sham,
And Legislative Flam!
Which cunning CUNNINGHAME and MATTHEWS cool
(Both prompt to play the fool,
In free-lance fashion or official form)
Prattled of, 'midst a storm
Of crackling laughter, and ironic cheers,
And sniggering, "Hear, hears!"--
Thou summest well the humbug of our lives.
The fistic "bunch of fives"
Is not like JULIA's jewelled "palm of milk"
Shrouded in kid or silk,
But JULIA was a sensuous little "sell,"
And SMITH and PRITCHARD--well,