THE FAMINE Cackle and lay, cackle and lay! How many eggs did you get to-day? None in the manger, and none in th… None in the box where the chickens…

I met a lonely Labor man, Forlorn and pessimistic: Who’d not yet fallen ‘neath the ba… Of leagues antagonistic. With an expression greatly peeved,

Righto! I’ll give the game a go. They say I should be circumspect;… I’ll bang The cows in slang . .

I am brightly alert and exceedingl… And my livery’s easily seen; With a bright golden breast and a… And a back of indefinite green. A conspicuous bird; and, I give y…

In olden days the Old White Hors… Stood brave against the sky; And ne’er a teamster shaped his co… To pass the good inn by. Far shone its lights o’ winter nig…

Aw, chuck the mail bags over there… It’s great to have 'em brought by… But, now they’re here, just sling… Out anywhere, upon the ground. I’ll pick 'em up an’ make full spe…

Who wants a nice white elephant, Quite fit in wind and limb? An ornament for any gent Who can find use for him. It won’t pay us to kill the cuss;

Once on a time a general whose nam… To the present generation as a nam… Once on a time this general - I t… This happened years and years ago,… This general once stood before his…

I must go down to the shops again,… And all I have is a long list of… And a few bob in the old kick and… For he’ll trust me, so the boss sa… I must go down to the shops again,…

I’m a fussy little fellow In my kilt of glowing yellow; As about the garden ways I bow an… Many a melody I bring you, In the soft, gay songs I sing you

World war had come - and gone. I… Spent, broken, by the last despair… Unfitted to attack or yet defend, The nations’ panting remnants skul… A listless, brutish rest, where no…

Stuffed with tradition and trammel… Cramped in their studies, they sne… At the strange, new passions young… Thro’ a sunlit land, and a tale un… Of youth’s ambition - new-minted g…

‘Er pore dear Par.’ she sez, 'e k… An’ then she weeps an’ stares ‘ard… ’Twas thro’ ‘is death,’ she sez, ‘… To this,’ she sez . . . An’ then… ‘Er par,’ she sez, ‘me poor late ’…

A duty done... What else was ther… A simple matter; and as simply sol… His straight young mind worked str… As ever youth’s clean mind. Here… And weighty pondering of faith or…

I ‘ad been bushed in city streets, Where the bricks and mortar grow. I ’ad worked me way through the no… ‘Oo’s landmarks I don’t know. There was faces, faces, driftin’ p…