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A Line for Browning.
Who'd write an epic for the age
Would need a title for his page.
For one he'd not have far to look--
"The (Prize) Ring and the (Betting) Book."
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A CHANCE FOR THE SOCIALISTS.--Parliament Hill and other lands
adjoining Hampstead Heath to be turned into a People's Park for ever.
Five hundred acres in which to congregate and speechify. How delightful
for Hampstead!
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Obviously.
Rascality would break the peace,
Would insolently do and dare;
Its motto is "Square the Police,"
And ours must be "Police the Square."
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SWEETS OF OFFICE.--To be appointed one of the British Delegates
at the Conference on the Sugar Question.
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[Illustration:
"INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHY" IN IRELAND, WITH "INSTANTANEOUS RESULTS."
[A Letter to the _Times_ recommended Instantaneous Photography for
the purposes of detection and evidence at proclaimed meetings.]]
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