Arate a word.

Also: (“month” having been declared unrhymable;)

They seized a soldier in Broadway,

December was the month;

He saw his pistols thrown away,

He also saw his gun th-

rown away!


In W. G. Clarke’s youth he was requested by a young lady in the millinery line to contribute a poem to her album. Her “Album” was an account book diverted from its original purpose, and he responded as follows:

To Miss Lucretia Sophonisba Matilda Jerusha Catling: