Do let me manage your boats on the Nile.
“I can shoot all the rapids and likewise your enemies,
Oh! how for nautical glory I pant!
Shall I be suffered to win it right jollily?”
Quoth dear Mr. Bull, “You’re too jolly. You shant!”
Judy. September 10, 1884.
(Canadian boatmen were employed in the Soudan Expedition.)
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THE HIGH-METTLED RACER.
See, the course throng’d with gazers, the sports are begun,