y_ Cocker, I may laugh,
with a full Locker, whilst the fools condemn.
Think of daring the blue brine with a chart of the Eighty-Nine, and "a
regular goldmine" in one huge black hulk!
Whilst the lubbers stick to that, I shall flourish and grow fat like a
shark or ocean-rat, though old NEP may sulk.

Demon-Sexton of the Deep! Ha! ha! Ho! ho! I keep my old office. Wives
may weep, and the taxpayers moan;
Let the grumblers make appeal to King Science! Lords of Steel, Iron
Chieftains, do ye feel when your victims groan?
DAVY JONES is well content with that tribute ye have sent, with the
millions ye have spent just to glut his gorge;
He had seldom such a fill in the days of wood--and skill--constant
sea-fights, or the spill of the _Royal George_.

Good old false last-century Chart! Though the conning may be smart,
and the steersman play his part, Palinurus-like,
Whilst they trust to your vain vellum, which is almost sure to sell
'em, even DAVY JONES can tell 'em, they may sink or strike.
Hooray, King Death, hooray! Who says we've had our day! Pass the rum and
let's be gay. Not that "dead man's chest,"
ROBERT LOUIS grimly sings, like my "Locker Chorus" rings--mingling
weirdly wedded things--grisly doom and jest!

* * * * *

On an Irish Landlord.

"Love thou thy Land!" So sang the Laureate.
Were that sole Landlord duty, you'd fulfil it!
But land makes not a Land, nor soil a State.
Loving your land, how sullenly you hate--
The People--who've to till it!
Of the earth, earthy is that love of soil
Which for wide-acred wealth will sap and spoil
The souls and sinews of the thralls of Toil.
Churl! Bear a human heart, a liberal hand!
_Then_ thou may'st say that thou dost "love thy Land."

* * * * *

WHEN a Stag has once been uncarted, and has been given
so many minutes law to get away, the Huntsman may correctly
allude to him as "The Deer Departed."

* * * * *

[Illustration:
"DAVY JONES'S LOCKER."

Davy Jones. "AHA! SO LONG AS THEY STICK TO THEM OLD
CHARTS, NO FEAR O' MY LOCKER BEIN' EMPTY!!"]

* * * * *

RECONCILIATION.

(_Scene from that new Screaming Farce "The Political Box and Cox."_)