I, from the wild Western Continent, wilder myself, weep for this Park

soon to be devoured.

I am like a buck-jumper: I buck at it.

I am like the Giant Cowboy: only I am not gigantic, and I am cowed by it.

Oh, Northerly end of Farringdon Street! Oh, Coldbath Fields Square!

Oh, dwellers in all the adjacent slums and rookeries, redolent of

old clothes' shops, swarthy Italian organ-grinders, and the

superannuated herring,

Are you going to see another House of Correction—a Postal one—built

where the old one stood?