Cocky little Randy looking anything but sunny;

Will, as Premier, back again, sitting on his foes,

Staffy up aloft, and indulging in a doze.

William Tyrrell.

Truth. October 15, 1885.


Sing a song of scaffolds! a pocket full of twine!

Sixty applications to “enlist men in the line!”

When old M. departed, the names came pouring in,—

Isn’t that a pretty way to earn a lot of tin?—