'ARRY ON ARRIUS.
With some Consideration concerning Compulsory Classics.
DEAR CHARLIE,—O, ain't I a daisy? Excuse your old pal busting forth;
But my name's going hup like a rocket; it's spreading east, west, south, and north.
Like that darned hinfluenza, but more so; and now, s'elp me scissors, I find
I was famous afore I was born! Sounds a licker, but 'anged if I mind.[1]
DAN the Dosser, a reglar Old Clo' at dead langwidges, classicks, and such,
Says it's met'em-see-kosis—a thing as to me, mate, is jest Double Dutch,
Means a soul on the shift, as it were, CHARLIE, tryin' fust this form, then that,