(Signed) A. BRIEFLESS, JUNIOR. Pump-handle Court, Oct. 4th, 1890.


THE GROAN OF THE GUSHLESS.

(A Song à la Shenstone.)

["What is described as an Anti-Gush Society has, according to a Pittsburg paper, been formed in New York, its object being to check the growing tendency, especially noticeable among young people of the period, to express themselves in exaggerated language.">[

Girl Member of the A.G.S. loq.:—

Ye maidens, so cheerful and gay,

Whose words ever fulsomely fall,

Oh, pity your friend, who to-day

Has become a Society's thrall.