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and pastures new ? Twynkles feels he has been left out 

 in the cold too long. He says all the angling talk has been 

 about Mr. Hopper, Witchdorter, and friend Brown nothing 

 about poor old Bowlingreen Twynkles. Well, if Mr. Hopper 

 were to record the wild-goose chases that Twynkles and he 

 have been, the narration of them would be far from entertaining. 

 Before closing his notes for 1893, Mr. Hopper would like to add 

 a few lines he came across some days ago, which are very suit- 

 able reading for those silly individuals who are constantly 

 writing on the windows of railway carriages and other public 

 places. The lines are these 



When I see a person's name, 



Scratched upon the glass, 

 I know he owns a diamond, 



And his father owns an ass. 



