But in spite of Yank and Scot, and the Bimetallic lot,

They who're fly to what is what, back the Gold 'un.

And did I bet—for fun—ere this Standard fight is done,

I should plank my ten to one

On the Old 'Un!


SUN-SPOTS.

Fog, haze, smoke or cloud, almost daily enshroud

The Metropolis—place we should shun—

And day after day the reports briefly say,