NO 679 VOL LXX: 



Fresh from the Serpent's Lair. 



•• AqJ hast thou caught the Jabberwoek ? 

 Gome lo my arms thou beamish boy, 

 O frabjouB day, Calloi ! Callay ! 1 

 He ohortlcd in his jay,** 



Lewis Oarboli* 



«i The monster hap again » eared hia horrid 

 head In No, 2 hole of the dismal ewimp! 



Come at once. 

 P.S — Bring 6 bottles of Black anl White." 



W. W. 

 Guaioo. 



"What do you think of that?" eaid 

 the Editor triumphantly, slapping the 

 above telegram before me. After perusal 

 I remarked that I supposed he had " got 

 *em again" and wanted a fresh f apply of 

 Buchanan, eo that he njioihl keep on " get- 

 ting 'em." "Now, don'c get gay," an- 

 swered the Editor, severely, " you know 

 as well as I do that W. W. Is not a man 

 of that sort. Now, we have got to go at 

 onoe and oatoh that anaoonda. Jamraoh 

 has offered £1,000 for a live one 

 25 feet In length and we must 

 do or die. I am taking our only 

 "''Entomologist, and you must come as 

 " Eaaaytsfc to write It np." I hinted that 



dismal swamps and horrid heads were a 

 bit out of my line and I thought with 

 the aid of a nloe dinner and a good 

 bottle of wine I should prob&Vy write a 

 muob bett:r account at the Qaeen'e 

 Park Hotel. But 'twas of no avail : He 

 tersely said. "Train leaves 8.46 a.m. 

 - to-morrow, if the snake holds you, he'll 

 find plenty to eat." 



The fcllowing morning we all mtt out- 

 side the station, where the Entomologist 

 and Essayist were promptly oarted off to 

 the third class platform by ihe Editor, who 

 in a preliminary harangue Informed 

 them that the first oUsb was only used 

 by deadheads, people who travelled with 

 free passes, suota as legislative oounoUlora, 

 high Ufiolala and ambassadors of oom- 

 BWtoe ; and the seoond class was 

 taken up by married ladie3 who gen- 

 erally travelled with 14 babies and 21 

 Carlo baek'.ts, so 89 he was wtll koown 

 to be by the people, for the peopl* and 

 with the people all the time, we must 

 throw in our lot with the eons of toll.and 

 go third ola«. The Impedimenta col- 

 lected by our worthy editor caused 

 much exo'titnent amongst the sons of 

 toll, who were bard at work holdlrg up 

 the posts ana walla of the station and 

 generally Impeding the work of the 

 railway officials. He had ooi'ected guns 

 of all sorts and eiz-9. oiloolued to kill 

 (if held elr^gh!) everything, fiom the 

 lordly elephant to the tiny humming 

 bird, and these, doubtless to evade the 



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