Sympathetic Friend (to gloomy batsman, disgusted at being given out for a catch at the wicket). "Wot's wrong, Bill? Was it dahtful?"

Batsman. "Dahtful! I should think it was dahtful! I could 'ardly 'ear it myself."


THE TATTIE-BOGLE.

[A]

A farmer once, to scare the birds away,

O'er his poor seeds set up, to leer and ogle,

A raffish moon-face, stuffed with straw and hay,