What a life!
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THE LATEST "LABOR PROGRAM."
(_BY A NEW-UNIONIST._)
I am all for myself, and 'tis perfectly true
That the "labor" I love is regardless of "u."
But, _per contra_, informing my "program" you see
Though I wink (with two I's), I eliminate "me."
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[Illustration: POLITICAL BOATING-PARTY DURING THE RECESS.
(_By Our Own Instantaneous Photographer_.)]
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IN A LOCK.--A WHITSUNTIDE WARBLE.
"_Lock! Lock!_"--Shock! Rock! That's a pretty frock bulging over the
gunwale!
She looks like to choke with that horrible smoke, which is fuming out
of the Steam-Launch funnel.
Pleasant old cry! All in, and dry. though we're awfully crowded this
first Spring holiday,
Better this than St. Stephen's dead-lock! Our serious Senators out
for a jolly day
Might do worse. Who carries the purse? That ten-foot rod with the
toll-net ending it
Means a hint. They must make "a mint"; and, by Jove, there are many
worse ways of spending it,--
Money, I mean. Now were G-SCH-N seen collecting cash for his dry
Exchequer
With pole and net, it were nicer, you bet, than keeping up his
financial pecker
With Spirit Duties! Those two blonde beauties in Cambridge blue are
exceeding bonny;
B-LF-R now at that same boat's bow would be quite in his element--eh,
my sonny?
And OLD MORALITY cooling his legs in the stern-sheets yonder would
find the steering
Easier far than amidst the jar of St.
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