ON THE CARDS.

(By a Whist-loving Malade-Imaginaire.)

Oh, where shall I hit on a "perfect cure"?

(What ails me I am not quite sure that I'm sure)

To Nice, where the weather is nice—with vagaries?

The Engadine soft or the sunny Canaries?

To Bonn or Wiesbaden? My doctor laconic

Declares that the Teutonic air is too tonic.

Shall I do Davos-Platz or go rove the Riviera?

Or moon for a month in romantic Madeira?