gered
To think how anyone could care
To read a line of RIDER HAGGARD.

The House of Commons talked about
The case of Mr. BRADLAUGH--whether
The Motion which has kept him out
Should now be struck out altogether;
And OLD MORALITY arose
To say they felt no ancient _animus_,
And when they voted, why of Noes
There wasn't one--they were _unanimous_!

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I started up, no more to sleep,
The dream somehow had seemed to spoil it,
Nor did it take me long to leap
Out of my bed and make my toilet.
I went down-stairs, and with surprise
I thought of those my dream had slandered,
And there, before my very eyes,
_I saw it printed in the_ STANDARD!

I wish I hadn't gone to bed.
I can't imagine why I did it.
Nor why I laid my weary head
So that the clothes completely hid it.
Although I think that must be why
My brain has ever since been teeming;
But tell me (if you can) am I
At present mad, or _was_ I dreaming?

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[Illustration: "RETIRE!--WHAT DO _YOU_ THINK?"]

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[Illustration: THE STOPPING OR REMOVAL OF A "GRINDER."

A SKETCH IN THE STREETS.]

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