The errand-boy shouted hooray!

The scavenger stood with his broom in his hand,

And smiled in a very rude way;

And the clergyman thought, 'I have heard many words,

But never, until to-day,

Did I hear any words that were quite so bad

As I heard that young man say.'

A TENNYSONIAN FRAGMENT.

[Inserted by special permission of the Proprietors of Punch.]