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,