eries of playful and innocent tricks, hitherto
associated rather with the entertaining efforts of the skilled and
educated guinea-pig than with the masterly ferocity of the monarch of
the desert. [Oh yes! We're not going to allow an advertisement to be
sneaked in like this. But as we required a paragraph to fill up space,
here it is, with name and address of Infant's Food provider omitted!
Aha!--ED.]

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A WHITE SLAVE.

[Miss HARKER took service as a day governess in a family at
Stockton, at a salary of 25_s._ a month, coupled with the
privilege of dining in the house. She found herself under the
necessity of taking a lodging, the rent for which more than
absorbed her modest stipend. She taught three children English
and music. Afterwards a couple of infants were placed in her
charge. Nor was this all, for when the servants left, the new
governess had "to cook the dinner, wash the dishes, and clean
the knives." After this she asked for a holiday, the result
being that "she was shown the door." Thereupon she brought
an action in the County Court for a month's salary in lieu
of notice. Judgment for plantiff with costs, payable
forthwith.--_Daily News, June 12._]

Poor Miss HARKER went to Stockton, to Stockton on the Tees,
But not to make her fortune, or to loll at home at ease;
She went to be a governess, and hoped, it would appear,
To board and lodge and dress herself on L15 a-year.

A lady once informed us how a lady can be dressed
As a lady all for L15, and in her very best;
But she never would have ventured to include in her account
The lodgings and the breakfasts too for this immense amount.

Now life may be a river, as Pactolus was of old,
Which brings you lots of water to a minimum of gold,
But sometimes it were better, when the water sinks so low
That it fails to turn your mill-wheel, if the river ceased to flow.

So all day long with urchins three Miss HARKER toiled in chains,
And she poured the oil of learning well upon their rusty brains,
And she practised them in music, and she polished up their sense
With the adverbs and the adjectives, and verbs in mood and tense.

And they said, "She's doing nicely, we will give her something more
(Not of money, but of labour) ere we show her to the door,
Why, we've got two baby children, it is really only fair
That Miss HARKER shoul