POISON IN THE PUMP.

[A medical writer in the Gentleman's Magazine says, "more people are killed by drinking water than are killed by drinking alcohol.">[

Think of that, teetotal folks, heed not Wilfred Lawson's jokes

And his gay, impromptu poems which he reads when on the stump,

Here's a doctor says that you will indubitably do

Quite a foolish thing in swearing by your sweetly sober pump.

Surely that should give you pause when you advocate your cause,

With your button-hole adorned with tiny scrap of sky-blue silk;

There's not half the danger in whisky, brandy, rum, or gin,