Mocks one, by no bright herald now doth stand,

To lead us, with a liberal hand,

Into the land of the cheap good Oysters,

Into the Oyster Land!

Punch, October 21, 1882.

——:o:——

The Bubble and the Bullet.

(A sweet thing in Morals, not even remotely suggested by Longfellow’s “Arrow and Song.”)

I blew a bubble into the air,

And bright and high it floated there;