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THE LAST FLY OF SUMMER. 
*T is the Inst fly of Bunmier, 
Left buzzing slone, 
All Ills merry companions 
Have vanished aud goue. 
Not 111 graceful gyrations 
Now deftly lie slums, 
Tor he’s weak ill the winglets 
And stiff in the limbs. 
Ills flights have grown shorter, 
And longer his rests; 
He crawls o’er the table, 
My paper molests. 
Yet, though seemingly dozing. 
Full watchful he stands. 
To mark when I’m busy. 
Engaged with both bauds. 
Then he grasps the occasion, 
And promptly he goes 
To tiekle my lingers, 
Ov light on my nose. 
To creep o'er my bald pate, 
My ear to explore, 
Or to traverse my eyelids— 
Tina terriblu bore. 
Yet one proof of alertness 
Remains to him still- 
lie dodges the ’kerchief 
That's flirted to kill. 
Mr raised hand he laughs at, 
This pestilent elf, 
And the. blow that should smash him 
AlighUJon myself. 
"Well, the winter is coming, 
Aud Jack Frost is nigh; 
And then, vile tormentor, 
I’ll smile when you die. 
-- 
PECULIAR PEOPLE. 
W / 
ts. u. c. 
People who always believe other people to be 
“ peculiar-?’ 
People who “live only live for each other.” 
People who always do what other people do 
because they don’t want to be thought “ pecu¬ 
liar." 
People who don’t believe their own baby to be 
superior to any other baby. 
People who don’t like French crockery. And 
People who don’t buy Slopeu’s “Book of 
Beauty.” 
-- 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS. 
A bead organ—the eye. 
The nation’s tear—the frontier. 
Nobody’s child—The self-made man. 
The batchelor’s toast—The day we celibrate. 
A Bit of nonsense—One that will not check a 
horse. 
What is society but a mixture of mister—ien 
and miss—eries ? 
If an Indian woman is a squaw, is an Indian 
baby necessarily a Bqualler ? 
A nousEiioLDKB advertises rooms to let to 
gentlemen furnished with gas. 
“ Give me liberty or give me breath,” is what 
a Manaynnk girl remarked to her lover a few 
evenings since. 
Thebe isn’t much difference between a grass¬ 
hopper and a grass-widow, after all. Either 
will jump at the first chance. 
“Who is your warmest friend? asked the 
teacher. “ My mother,” yelled one of the boys. 
“Your mother ?” “ Yes. she ‘ warms’ me every 
day! ” The teacher has given up her missionary 
work.— Chicago Earning Journal. 
Ikate ’Squire—Hi, you, sir! You’re fiBhing iu 
my river. I demand what you've caught. Fish¬ 
erman—All right, gov’nor. 1’vo caught a cold, 
and I’m catchiug the rheumatics, and you’re 
jolly welcome to ’em both.— Funny Folks. 
Heavy showers, like heavy drinkers, begin 
with little drops. 
" Little drops of brandy, 
Little kegs of rye. 
Make cbe mighty toper 
And the rummy eye." 
It was half-past ten as a ninth street girl 
yawned and asked him if ho liked poetry. He 
said, “ YeB, dear;” then she murmured, 
“ Now I lay me down to sleep,” 
and it so disturbed his judgement that he took 
the old man’s hat. instead of his own. 
“ What on airth ails these ere shirt-buttons, 
I wonder?" said an old lady. “ Just the minit I 
puts the needle through ’em to sew ’em on, they 
splits and dies all to hits.” “ Why, grand 
mother, them isn’t buttons ; they’s my pepper¬ 
mints, and now you’ve been sp’iling them.” 
“ My dear,” said Mrs. Foley to her husband. 
“ do you observe how the tartar is affecting my 
teeth?” “ Having so much of it constantly on 
your tongue, I am not surprised to lind it attack¬ 
ing your teeth;” was the ungracious reply, as 
Mr. Foley suddenly closed the front door after 
him to escape a flying etovo lifter. 
CONCIjUST ve. 
Lodger: “ I detect rather a disagreeable Smell in the House, Mrs. Jones. Are you sure the 
Drains—” 
Landlady: “ Oh, it can’t be the Drains, Sir, whatever. There are none, Sir!!” 
ONLY THIS AND NOTHING IRE. 
The aim of the Rural New-Yorker for 
1878 is to reach a degree of excellence never 
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