In this harassing, harrowing, hectoring game.

But missing Dame Fortune, they sit down and moan,

And oft grumble because through their fingers she flits:

They should dig for the tramp’s philosopher’s stone:

“I can’t git what I wants, so I take what I gits.”

Drawn by Charles W. Kahles.

The Annual Dinner.

H a l l r o u m a n i a ,  o r  T h e B o a r d e r l a n d

by Irvin S. Cobb.