There is not in the whole land a meeting so meet
As that of the ratepayers held at Mare Street.
No mare's nest they'd found, no, the Hackneyite heart
Was hot at the new Water Company start!
It _was_ not that Nature had stinted supply;
That Monopolist pretext appears "all my eye."
'Twas _not_ summer parching of river and rill,
Oh! no--it was something more troublesome still.
'Twas that greed and neglect had combined, it is clear,
To make East End water deficient and dear;
And Monopoly now the supply must improve,
Or more than mere Mare Streets will be on the move.
Big Monopolist Mammon, how calm could you rest
With your dividends high in the way you love best;
But when water runs short, and diseases increase,
The East End won't leave you and your Water at peace.
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GULLY-VER.--Mr. BALFOUR'S decision as to not
disturbing the SPEAKER in his uneasy chair was e-gully
awaited, and is, it is hoped, accepted e-gully by all parties. So now,
in his chair, Mr. GULLY will reign re-gully.
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LATEST FASHION.--Bicycle dinners and suppers have been the
vogue. _Pièce de résistance_ is of course "Cold Wheel." This dish is
selected because whatever the number "wheel" is sure to go round.
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