'Tis the voice of the Sluggard, I hear him complain,
You have waked me too soon--an unpleasant surprise!
In an hour or so later pray call me again,
When, if feeling refreshed, I will straightway "_Arise!_"
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QUITE IN KEEPING.--The Earl of DYSART has left the ranks of the
Liberal Unionists and become a Gladstonian Home-Ruler. "What more
natural?" asked one of his former Unionist friends. "Of course he's
dysarted us!"
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[Illustration: A MISUNDERSTANDING.
_He._ "OH, IF I'D ONLY BEEN A 'BEAR'!"
_She._ "IF YOU HAD BEEN, YOU COULDN'T GROWL WORSE THAN YOU DO!"]
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