Volume 104 — "TO BE CONTINUED."

How eagerly those tales I read While still of tender years, Of murder strange, of Haunted Grange, And gory Buccaneers! But, at the most exciting point, Abruptly ceased the text,— What rage was mine to meet the line, "Continued in our next"! Sometimes, indeed, misfortune sharp The Journal would attend— The funds would fail, and so the tale Remains without an end. Now, when I take a serial up, I cry, in accents vexed,— "I've read enough—why is the stuff 'Continued in our next'?" Ah well, the things we valued once Enliven us no more! (Remarks like these, if morals please, I've furnished by the score.) And should these verses but result In making you perplexed, You'll learn with glee they will not be "Continued in our next"!