_, moved to amend the Resolution by adding "at once." This was
agreed to _nem. con._ The Serjeant-at-Arms was thereupon ordered to
remove Influenza. He declined on the ground that if he did he might
catch it. After some conversation the debate was adjourned. Influenza
left sitting on Members generally.--_Extract from the Fifteenth of
May's Parliamentary Report_.
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A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS!
(_BY A PERPLEXED READER OF THE PENNY PAPERS._)
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When you're lying awake, with a horrid headache (to adopt a suggestion
of GILBERT's),
When too freely you've dined, or too heavily wined, or munched too many
walnuts or filberts;
When your brain is a maze, and creation a haze, then each queer social
craze--there are many!--
Gets your wits in a spool, and there isn't a fool for your thoughts
would advance you a penny.
You can't sleep a wink, so the question of Drink, though you timidly
shrink from it, harries you.
Your wit's in a whirl, as you think, if some girl with a _penchant_ for
you, ups and marries you.
And ties you for life to the thing called a Wife,--that figment, that
fraud, that illusion,
Where, _what_ will you be? And you can't find a key to the epoch's
chaotic confusion.
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