Desperate dash down the Falls of Niagara.

A request for a rhyme for Mackonochie elicited numerous replies, one of which, in reference to a charitable occasion, begins thus:—

Who, folk bestowing

Their alms, when o’erflowing,

The coffer unlocks?

Fingers upon a key

Placing, Mackonochie

Opens the box.

Canning’s amusing little extravaganza, with which everybody is familiar, beginning:—

Whene’er with haggard eyes I view