Mamma is a judge of divorces,
Sister ANNE is a learned Q.C.,
ELIZA is great upon horses,
And DORA a thriving M.D.
Aunt JANE is a popular preacher,
Aunt SUSAN a dealer in stocks,
While Father, the gentlest old creature,
Attends to the family socks.
Aunt POLLY'S a marvel of knowledge,
With any amount of degrees,
She's Master or head of some college--
I forget whether Corpus or Caius--
Aunt NELL is the eminent counsel
Who pleads at the criminal bar,
And I feed the canary with groundsel
For I'm learning to be a Papa.
I'm to marry a girl in the City,
She allows me a hundred a year
To dress on, and make myself pretty,
And keep me in baccy and beer.
The duties?--Oh, as for the duties,
You can possibly guess what they are;
And I warrant the boys will be beauties
That are destined to call me Papa.
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"BARRY, COME UP!" (_Quotation from Shakspeare by a "geltlebal with a
cold id 'is 'ead."_)--Mr. J. WOLFE BARRY was made "a Companion of the
Bath," as a recognition of his having done his best for the Thames.
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[Illustration: ESSENCE OF
PARLIAMENT.