'And what is that?'
'Balder-dash!' was the annihilating reply.
I report this for the special consideration of Governor Andrew.
Nor less illustrative of the terrible tendencies of civil war, is the following:
'We have a whole navy of gun-boats at Island Number Ten,' said the Colonel, reflectively.
'Yes,' was the unwary reply.
'Then how comes it that if the knave can take the Ten, a navy can't?'
Yours in grief,
CONSTANT READER.
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