Cynical Taxi-driver. "HERE!—HI!—ME LORD! YOU'VE MADE A MISTAKE—YOU'VE GIVE ME TUPPENCE TOO MUCH!"


THE COOK.

(With acknowledgments to TENNYSON and CALVERLEY.)

Urged by the Government, with loyal step

I to the Labour Bureau made my way

To find a cook; and there beheld a queen,

Tall, fair, arrayed in feathers and in fur