Will be of Garnered Monkeys!

* * * * *

"A railway from Joppa to Jerusalem" sounds like a Scriptural Line. In
future, "going to Jericho" will not imply social banishment, as the
party sent thither will be able to take a return-ticket.

* * * * *

[Illustration: OF MALICE AFORETHOUGHT.

_Cheery Official._ "ALL FIRST CLASS 'ERE, PLEASE?"

_Degenerate Son of the Vikings_ (_in a feeble voice_). "_FIRST CLASS?_
NOW DO I _LOOK IT_?"]

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THE LAY OF THE LAST KNIGHT.

My name and style are ELLIS ASHMEAD BART--
Ah! happy augury. Would I could
Leave it so. But 'twill not do.
Like soap of Monkey brand,
It will not wash clothes,
Or, in truth, ought else.
'Tis but an accident of rhythm
Born of the imperative mood that makes one
Start a poem of this kind on ten feet,