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165 40 The After Dinner Nap. 1 That while the coffee and cigars they're at, They feel much more inclined for sleep than chat 2 The Stout one bad already bowed his head— Which seemed, as folks express it, like a lump of lead— 3 His long cigar rests on the polished pate Of the oblivious snorer, tete a tete 4 When np he jumped half crazy with the pain, And seized bis slim friend ere he could explain Rank. 1 A soldier—quite a common one—s private I might say, 2 But ere one boot was fairly done, a sergeant stepped before 3 A captain stepped np then, and put his foot upon the black The Treacherous Help. 1 A rivulet blocked up the way, too wide for them to cross 2 The younger took a flying leap, and landed safe and sound 8 He held his stick across the brook, and told his friend to grasp 4 And showed a kind of sword inside, they knew not it contained The Biter Bit. 1 A little urchin, scarcely four feet high, Who never yet had known how to be shy 2 If he could only manage, unpercoived To seat himself upon it he 'oelieved 3 The youngster placed himself so near the wheel The workman did not—or seemed not to—feel 4 The mnn upon whose vehicle le stole, Was carting ruhMsh to fill up a hole 5 Away it went, the dirt, youngster, and all, Who luckily had not so far to fall The Rival Porters. 1 The train had just into the terminus steamed With live and dead stock it was freighted 2 While high in the air his right hand he uphold, And both now respond to his bawling. 3 The luggage was seized at the same time by the paiP And both seemed quite ready for fighting 4 And when at the last, he descried with dismay His trunk g«ve of parting gome token b The traveller threw up his hands in despair, At the close of this fiercest of battles The Fatal Physic. 1 He turned to the weeping buy and and said, ‘ '1 he case is an awfully bad one—hut still 2 He showed the prescription of wonderful length Which mentioned some drugs of such terrible strength 3 The chemist the mixture had scarcely tied down, Than Hans was once more on his way from the town 4 They seized on the bottle of physic in haste, The cork wa-s soon drawn and they each got a taste b The pain in their stomachs each moment grew worse Till they thought they would soon want a coffin or nnrse E