A FEW MORE “BEST BAD LINES.”

Why leapest thou,

Why leapest thou

So high within my breast?

Oh, stay thee now,

Thou little bounder, rest!

Something had happened wrong about a bill,

Which was not drawn with true mercantile skill,

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]So to amend it I was told to go

To seek the firm of Clutterbuck & Co.

But let me not entirely overlook

The pleasure gathered from the rudiments

Of geometric science.

Israel in ancient days

Not only had a view

Of Sinai in a blaze,

But heard the Gospel too.

Flashed from his bed the electric message came;

He is no better; he is much the same.

A household hinter advises that “if the thin white curtains blow into the gas and catch fire sew small lead weights into the seams.” Before doing this, however, it would be wise to turn in an alarm.

The orchestra was playing too loud to suit the manager, so he complained to the leader. “The passage is written in forte,” said the latter. “Well, make it about thirty-five.”