--I wish you a _rappy_ New Year!
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[Illustration: METROPOLITAN RAILWAY TYPES.
THE PARTY THAT _NEVER_ SAYS, "THANK YOU!"
THE PARTY THAT _ALWAYS_ SAYS, "THANK YOU!"
WHEN YOU OPEN THE DOOR, SHUT THE WINDOW, OR GIVE UP YOUR SEAT FOR
HER.]
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BUMBLE AT HOME;
OR, THE WINTER OF _OUR_ DISCONTENT.
"Notwithstanding the most superlative, and, I may say,
supernat'ral exertions on the part of this parish," said
BUMBLE, "we have not been able to--do anythink."--_Oliver
Twist_.
_Mr. Bumble, loquitur_:--
_GR-R-R-R!!!_ Old-fashioned Winter, indeed! Well, I 'ope them
as talks on it relishes it!
The City seems give up to snow; which I can't say it greatly
embellishes it.
But, really, of all the dashed imperence,--s'posing of course as
they _meant_ it,--
The greatest is that of the Papers appealing to Me to pervent it!
Ah! it's a hinsolent Hage, and without no respect for Authority.
The cry of them demmycrat 'owlers is all for low In-fe-ri-or-ity.
Things is about bottom uppards, as far as I judges, already,
And if the porochial dignity's floored, what is left to stand
steady?
_Progressists_, indeed! Ah, _I_'d "progress" 'em, pack o'
perposterous hasses,
A regular pollyglot lot, breeding strife 'twixt the classes and
masses.
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