M.O.'s who dandle babes no less than I

Will leave me cold; M.O.'s who have a tender

Passion for my own type of sock-suspender

Won't utter it. Though on my heaving breast

They lean their heads, they'll lean them uncaressed;

We'll part, nor overstep the auscultation test.


"AMERICA'S BLOCKADE.

By David G. Pinkney, the well-known chip-owner."—Evening News.

A chip of the old blockade.