[Illustration: _Visitor_ (_to actor friend_). "Y'KNOW, I WAS GOIN' ON THE
STAGE MYSELF ONCE, BUT MY PEOPLE DINE SO LATE."]

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A SPORTING OFFER.

"Rabbit trapper would take so much the couple or rent them, or give so much
the couple and kill them."--_Scotch Paper._

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A CORNISH LULLABY.

A.D. 1760.

Sleep, my little ugling,
Daddy's gone a-smuggling,
Daddy's gone to Roscoff in the _Mevagissey Maid_,
A sloop of ninety tons
With ten brass-carriage guns,
To teach the King's ships manners and respect for honest trade.

Hush, my joy and sorrow,
Daddy'll come to-morrow
Bringing baccy, tea and snuff and brandy home from France;
And he'll run the goods ashore
While the old Collectors snore
And the wicked troopers gamble in the dens of Penzance.