The Baron de B.-W.


A MODERN ECLOGUE.

Scene—A Crowded Thoroughfare. Enter Strephon and Phyllis on bicycles, at the rate of fifteen miles an hour.

Strephon.

We care not, Phyllis, my own, to-day,

For walking in Kensington Park,

To flirt in the old conventional way,

And saunter home in the dark.

Nay, pleasanter far it is to "scorch"—