Volume 25 — LESSON FOR INNOCENT CABMEN.
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Sing a song of Sixpence, "A pocket-full!" says I. Four-and-twenty farthings? That's all my eye! But my eye was opened— A summons he did seek; And wasn't that a pretty case To bring before the Beak?
The Beak was on his judgment-seat A fining swell coves money; And Punch was perch'd 'longside him, Grinning precious funny. Fitzroy had, in the Commons, Been pickling us a rod; And off went the prison van, And took me to Quod!
The Road in 1853.
The days of the Highwaymen are over: but that need not be lamented by the admirers of the robbers of the good old times. The Highwaymen have been succeeded by the Railwayman.
THE FÊTALIST.
The First Emperor left behind him a "Napoleon Book of Fate."
The Second Emperor promises to enrich the history of France with a "Napoleon Book of Fêtes."
Too Much and Too Little.—The man who believes too little may be safer than the man who believes too much; but it is a question if, through life, he knows half as much pleasure.
Russian Impudence.—A celebrated Diplomatist who lisps a little, being asked to define Russian Impudence, answered very significantly "Why, ith's beyond Pruth!"
