A STORY OF HAUNTING HORROR.
I ILL the reader please to cast his eye over
the following verses, and see if he can dis¬
cover anything harmful in them ?
" Conductor, when you receive a fare.
Punch in the presence of the passenjare,
A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,
A buff trip slip for a si.x-cent fare,
A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare.
CHORUS.
Punch, brothers ! punch with care I
Punch in the presence of the passenjare ! "
I came across these jingling rhymes in a newspaper
a little while ago, and read them a couple of times.
They took instant and entire possession of me. All
through breakfast they went waltzing through my
brain ; and when, at last, I rolled up my napkin, I
could not tell whether I had eaten anything or not.
I had carefully laid out mv day's work the day
before—a thrilling tragedy in the novel u'hich I
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