And from the fury of the sun

They scamper most bewitchingly!

F. B. Doveton.

From Society.

——:o:——

“We are ruined by Cheap Chinese Labour.”

In Punch for January 16, 1886, a Parody (in four verses) appeared apropos of an assertion that Chinamen were being largely employed on vessels of the Royal Navy, stationed in the China Seas. It commenced:—

Ye Mariners of England

Who watch our distant seas,

’Tis very odd that you should be