Despite his brass and lies?

Let’s take to racing, try to win

A competence, at play;

Let’s take to fiddles, rattles, gin—

No politics to-day!

Pall Mall Gazette. May 28, 1886.

——:o:——

A LETTER OF ADVICE.

(From Miss Medora Trevillian, at Padua, to Miss Araminta Vavasour, in London.)

You tell me you’re promised a lover,