Their arms our defense, our arms their reward;
Fall in, men, fall in.

* * * * *

TO A CHAPERONE.

Here's to the chaperone,
May she learn from Cupid
Just enough blindness
To be sweetly stupid.

--_Oliver Herford._

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FOR A PATRIOTIC DINNER.

If we drink to China, we drink the poison of the "Sick Man
of the East;" if we drink to Italy, we put "The Boot" on the
wrong foot; if we drink to Peru, we burn our lips on the
equator; so let us drink to him who hath not harm in his
heart, venom in his veins, nor flaw in his flag--Uncle Sam.

* * * * *

Let us toast our huddled little brothers of the frigid
North--the Esquimaux. They need it.

* * * * *

FATHER O'FLYNN.

Far renowned for larnin' and piety,
Still I'd advance ye widout impropriety,
Father O'Flynn as the flower of them all.
Here's a health to you, Father O'Flynn,
Slainte and slainte and slainte agin.
Pow'rfulest preacher and tenderest teacher
And kindliest creature in ould Donegal.

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To the stars and the stripes,
To the land of our birth,
The American girl--
The best things on earth.

* * * * *

Here's to the lying lips we meet,
For truthful lips are bores.
But lying lips are very sweet
When lying close to yours!

--_Smart Set._

* * * * *

Drink to Life and the passing show,
And the eyes of the prettiest girl you know!

* * * * *

Drink, Drink, Drink!
Drink to the girl of your heart;
The wisest, the wittiest, the bravest, the prettiest;
May you never be far apart.

* * * * *

Here's to the girl--
With dash and whirl--
Who rides about in an auto;
Here's to the man
Who'll bridle her
To ride about as she "ought to."

* * * * *

Here's to love, the only fire against which there is no insurance.

* * * * *

Here's to the lasses we've loved, my lad,
Here's to the lips we've pressed;
For of kisses and lasses
Like liquor in glasses,
The last is always the best.

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To Woman--W