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THE LAMPLIGHTER EXTINGUISHED; OR, A BURNING EXAMPLE 



TO SMOKERS, 



BY ONE OF THE NEW SCHOOL. 



JACK CURLING was a lamplighter, 



And light in all his ways ; 

 And he added Hymen's link to his, 



And wedded Dolly Blaise. 



This merry lad o' the ladder lived 



In Lad Lane classic spot! 

 And Dolly was in Bread Street bred, 



And there her bread she got. 



She loved him in most ardent style, 



(Which one of woman's ways is :) 

 Yea, she so loved, that one might say, 



No flame e'er burned like Blaise's ! 



Jack loved her with a love mature, 



Yet owned one love more ripe ; 

 For, though he eyed Doll with delight, 



His idol was his pipe. 



Tobacco was his stable joy, 

 < Which nothing could forestal, 

 And, for that Jack thus smoked, the wags 

 A smoke-jack him did call. 



'Twas puff, and whiff, and fume, and blow ; 



And Jack would sometimes joke, 

 That e'en when Dolly's fire was out, 



She oft saw " Curling smoke." 



j 

 She smoked his humour for a time ; 



And " Ah !" exclaimed he still, 

 " How sweet's the love that meets returns !" 



While she his pipe did fill. 



But, in his passion for the weed, 



He soon of nought else thought, 

 Until, whilst he for " short-cut" longed, 



She longed to cut him short. 



" Say, is your body," she exclaimed, 



" A tenement so hot, 

 That you must go thus for to make 



A chimney of your throat ?" 



Still as he plied his ceaseless tube, 



And vapoured round the room, 

 " If you smoke on so," Dolly cried, 



" You'll put me in a fume. 



