BESIDES, THE KID WANTS HIS SHIRT BACK."]

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"DIRECT ACTION" AT PUTNEY.

"When the Light Blues went out a second time R.C. Barrett, of
the winning trial eight crew, was at strike,--_Daily Paper_.

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NEMESIS.

Kindly the dentist was, for he
Had obviously sought
To keep his waiting victims free
From apprehensive thought,
Providing for those souls in fear
The Comic Press of yesteryear.

I read those jests of days agone,
Those jibes at folly flown,
And wondered should I light upon
Some trifle of my own,
A par well pointed in its time
Or fragment of reputed rhyme.

Could I retrieve some sparkling fytte
Bedecked with _jeux de mots_,
I fancied that the sight of it