But I spent next day at the Bank, sir, with limbs both tired and sore,

And as I sat calm and quiet my memory clouded grew

As I thought of that awful journey, that ride I had just gone through.

Cassell’s Saturday Journal. May 1, 1886.

——:o:——

The Terror of Tadger’s Rents.

A “Dagonet Ballad” Gone Wrong.

Ain’t heard of Tadger’s Rents? My eye! where was you bred and born?

Such ignorance it do excite a feller-creature’s scorn.

The Rents is down the Dials way—a proper kind o’ lair,