And if you please, mum, I
Should like your health to drink.
Godfrey Turner.
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Although, as has been seen, American writers have abundance of humour, it does not make them proud, and they will appropriate the comic writings of our authors, without acknowledgment, in the most condescending manner. A volume of amusing verse entitled “Songs of Singularity” was brought out by Mr. Walter Parke in 1874, it contained a ballad on the mother-in-law, a theme of never-failing fruitfulness to the satirist. That same ballad afterwards appeared in the San Francisco News Letter, duly appropriated and altered to suit the local market, without one word of acknowledgment to the original author.
BY THE SAD SEA WAVES.
An Idyll.
“O gai!”—French exclamation of delight.
He stood on his head on the wild sea shore,
And joy was the cause of the act,