His spirit effervescing.

Though at his jokes we often roared,

He's now a soundish sleeper!

His crop of chaff at length is floored

By Death, that mighty reaper.

* Note.—Ward and Payne's sheep shears are or were most in
use in the Australian Colonies when the above was written.

A CANDIDATE FOR AN EARLY GRAVE.

What makes me wear my boots so tight,