UJLD AND NEW
" Goo9 luck," said 'e ; " Goo' luck," said I ; " You've
put it past a doubt;
An' keep that lurcher on the road, the gamekeepers
is out."
?E thumped upon the footboard an' 'e lumbered on
again
To meet a gold-dust sunset down the owl-light in the
lane ;
An5 the moon she climbed the 'azels, while a night-
jar seemed to spin
That Pharaoh's wisdom o'er again, 'is sooth of lose-
and-win ;
For " up an' down an' round," said 'e, " goes all
appointed things.
An' losses on the roundabouts means profits on the
swings ! "
PATRICK R. CHALMERS
TIT FOR TAT
HAVE you been catching of fish, Tom Noddy ?
Have you snared a weeping hare ? 10
Have you whistled, " No Nunny," and gunned a
poor bunny,
Or a blinded bird of the air ?
Have you trod like a murderer through the green
woods,
Through the dewy deep dingles and glooms,
While every small creature screamed shrill to Dame
Nature,
" He comes—and he comes ! " ?
Wonder I very much do, Tom Noddy,
If ever, when you are a-roam,
An Ogre from space will stoop a lean face,
And lug you home : 20
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