As for the telephone service, we can well believe that he would prefer the veil to be kept over that.


A GERMLESS EDEN.

The antiseptic baby and the prophylactic pup

Were playing in the garden when the bunny gambolled up;

They looked upon the creature with a loathing undisguised,

For he wasn't disinfected and he wasn't sterilized.

They said he was a microbe and a hotbed of disease;

They steamed him in a vapour of a thousand odd degrees,

They froze him in a freezer that was cold as banished hope,