Who prune themselves and peck each other frightfully.

Alas that warblers should contend so spitefully.

All—save the cynic—mourn the Muse's loss,

When Gosse snubs Gale, or Gale be-blizzards Gosse!


LYRE AND LANCET.

(A Story in Scenes.)

PAST XXIV.—THE HAPPY DISPATCH.

"Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, but——"