"I feel as well as well can be!"--
_Take care!_
La Grippe's deceptive dontcher see,
Beware! Beware!
Trust it not,
'Twill be fooling thee;
It's just three weeks since I was "down!"--
_Take care!_
"I'm wanted very much in town."
Beware! Beware!
Run no risk,
'Tis humbugging thee!
"_I_ feel all right,--as well as you!"--
_Take care!_
What feeling tells you is not true!
Beware! Beware!
Pneumonia waits
To be nipping thee!
"You Doctors are such funny chaps!"--
_Take care!_
We know the dangers of Relapse.
Beware! Beware!
Flout me not,
_I'm_ not fooling thee!
"Too long you pillow us and pill us!"--
_Take care!_
You don't half know that blarmed bacillus.
Beware! Beware!
Brave it not,
'Twill be flooring thee!
"The fever's gone, the aches seem vanished."
_Take care!_
They come back when you think 'em banished.
Beware! Beware!
Trust 'em not,
They'll be dodging thee!
"Oh, come, I say, look here, you know!"--
_Take care!_
Your pulse is yet two beats too slow.
Beware! Beware!
Trifle not,
Sense is schooling thee!
"Three weeks have I been on my back!"--
_Take care!_
You don't want to _renew_ the rack.
Beware! Beware!
East winds are out,
They'll be cooling thee!
"It is a _beast_ of a complaint!"--
_Take care!_
Don't storm! Your pulse is fluttering, faint.
Beware! Beware!
Worry not,
Think of _syncope_!
"Tush! Taking Care's the awfullest worry!"--
_Take care!_
For "Complications" punish hurry.
Beware! Beware!
Resist him not,
Who'd be ruling thee!
Keep warm indoors, take lots of rest.
_Take care_!
That of all counsels is _the_ best.
Beware! Beware!
_Out_? Cert'nly _not_!
For two weeks--or _three_!
[_Left fuming._
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"ON THE SLY."--The name of Mr. J.E. SLY was mentioned in the _World_
last week as a candidate for the office of High Bailiff of the City
of London Court. Quite a Shakspearian name is _Sly_. "Look in the
Chronicles," quoth _Christopher_ of that ilk, "We came in with RICHARD
Conqueror." We drink success to him in "a pot of the smallest ale" and
"Let the _World_ slip,"--whether it did slip or not, the event will
prove,--"We shall ne'er be younger."
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"CHARLES, HIS FRIENDS."--The Gentlemen who sought to adorn King
CHARLES's statue with wreaths on the 30th January, are not to be
beheaded. Like the White Rose League, their Jacobark is worse than
their Jacobite.
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