A Babbitt met a Bromide on the avenue one day. They held a conversation in their own peculiar way.

Yes — and talking about parasites, my friends, how long will it be before the decent working-men of England tire of the miserable gang of fools, liars and dudelets who had the barefaced impudence to decree that the year 1887 should be one of Jubilation?

So a mill; for one shall have it for so long a time, or one toll-dish, the other for a like time afterwards, or the second toll-dish.

'T is warbled by the bird / Whose springtide voice is heard; / 'T is told throughout the vale / By fragrance we inhale; / While every verdant lawn / Reveals it to the dawn.