Miss Priscilla. "AH, BUT WITH A TELESCOPE, YOU KNOW!"
AT LAST!
(Jeremiad by a Middle-aged Martyr to the great Seaside Superstition.)
["To middle-aged people, at all events, nothing can be more trying and deleterious than holidays."—Daily News.]
Oh, thanks to thee, thanks to thee, sage unconventional!
Heaven be blest, the truth's out, then, at last!
Holiday woes—'twould take volumes to mention all!—
Now, in the lump, meet a shrewd counterblast.
Trying? Of course they are! Most deleterious?