ished under that title; and DeMille's selection from _The
Dodge Club_. Lanigan's humorous verse was never brought together in
book form.

Ottawa,
_August, 1910_.

CONTENTS

PAGE

JOSEPH HOWE (1804-1873):
The Blue Nose 1
To Mary 3
A Toast (To Haliburton) 5

THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON (1796-1865):
Sheepskins and Politics 8
The Doctor 11
Mother Hunt's Chickens 15
The Deacon's Bargain 19

WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND (1854-1907):
The Corduroy Road 22
Dominique 30
How Bateese came Home 34

MRS. EVERARD COTES (1862-):
The Japanese Reporter 46

JAMES McCARROLL (1814-1890):
The Gray Linnet 59

GEORGE THOMAS LANIGAN (1845-1886):
The Ahkoond of Swat 61
The Amateur Orlando 64
The Plumber's Revenge 71
The Merchant of Venice 77
The Unfortunate Elephant 78
The Coroner and the Banana Peel 79
The Rhinoceros and the Dromedary 80
The Hen and the Tailor 82
The Glow-worm and the Famished Nightingale 83
The Centipede and the Barbaric Yak 85
The Honest Newsboy 87
The Villager and the Snake 88
The Ostrich and the Hen 90

JAMES DEMILLE (1836-1880):
The Senator's Laundry 91

HUMOUR OF THE NORTH

THE BLUE NOSE

Let the Student of Nature in rapture descant,
On the Heaven's cerulean hue;
Let the Lover indulge in poetical rant,
When the eyes of his Mistress are blue.

But fill high your glasses--fill, fill to the brim,
I've a different toast to propose:
While such eyes, and such s