Alas, what a change is apparent to-day,
For you jump on your friends, and you take them up shortly,
With a quarrel a minute whatever they say.
Then, in spite of the canon that's set 'gainst self-slaughter
(In the language of verdicts it's felo de se,)
Some day you'll be found with your head in the water,
Six inches will do, or attached to a tree.
There have been some difficulties at Brierly Hill. At a recent meeting of the Urban Council a letter was read from the Local Government Board asking for information with regard to a communication which Dr. Ellis, the medical officer of health, had addressed to them. This referred to the fact that Dr. Ellis had ordered a "dumb" well at the Town Hall to be cleared out. What is the use of a dumb well? Even if it contains the truth it cannot speak it. Personally, I prefer a babbling brook.