Enough for me: with joy I see

The different dooms our fates assign!

Be thine to love thy trade and starve;

To wear what Heaven bestow’d be mine!”

He said, and headlong from the trap-stairs’ height,

Quick through the frozen street he ran in shabby plight.

Thomas Erskine.

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“THE WORLD” PARODY COMPETITION.

The first prize for a composition on “Mr. Gladstone in Midlothian,” in the style of Gray’s Pindaric ode, “The Bard,” was awarded to Etonensis; the second to Apis Matina.