The G.O.M. at Hawarden said, sniffling through his nose,

“When I was Master of the Mint we made no coins like those.”

Darjew.

The Weekly Dispatch. October 2, 1887.


Sing a song of sixpence, a packetful of news,

Just a dozen wordlets all that you must use.

When the packet’s open’d, the news begins to ring,

A birth, a death, a dainty dish of gossip doth it bring.

The husband’s in his counting-house losing all his money,