The Lord's Day Observance Society
Would make us all pinks of propriety--
All models of mental sobriety,
That is _Stiggins_ and _Chadband_ combined.
They gain, doubtless, some notoriety
By such overwhelming anxiety
To force on us their sort of piety
Of a most puritanical kind.
This _Sunday at Home_ mental diet, I
Dislike, I would rather not try it; I
Suggest that, by way of variety.
Their own business now they should mind.
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Prize Conundrum before Christmas.
_How to Make Life Happy._--An Infallible Recipe:--Add fifty-nine to
the latter half of it. *** _Solution will be given next week._
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[Illustration: THE PLUNGER.
_First Boy_ (_much interested in the game of Buttons_). "'AS 'E LOST?"
_Second Ditto._ "YES; 'E LOST ALL THEM BUTTONS WHAT 'E WON OFF TOMMY
CROWTHER YESTERDAY, AN' THEN 'E CUT ALL THE BUTTONS OFF 'IS CLOTHES,
AND 'ES LOST THEM TOO!"]
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