And at last ends the age of cant.”

If people can grow excited singing that, my songs would send them crazy.

Then there is the Coalition. I have had a good deal of difficulty about this, but I think that at last I have hit the right note; all my first efforts were too dignified. This goes to a darkie tune:—

The Piebald Mare.

Air—Camptown Ladies.

Down-town darkies all declare,

Doo-dah, doo-dah,

There never was a hoss like the piebald mare

Doo-dah, doo-dah day!

One half dark and the other half pale,