Why only one dog? Two fire-dogs are to
be found on the hearth of every old French Chateau. Why only half do
it?
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[Illustration: ADDING INSULT TO INJURY.
_Brown_ (_whose prize St. Bernard has just snatched a fillet of Veal
from a Butcher's slab_). "HI! COME AND TAKE YOUR CONFOUNDED MEAT AWAY
FROM HIM! _HE'S EATING THE SKEWERS!_"]
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"DEATH AND HIS BROTHER SLEEP."
_QUEEN MAB_.
[Major MARINDIN, in his Report to the Board of Trade on
the railway collision at Eastleigh, attributes it to the
engine-driver and stoker having "failed to keep a proper
look-out." His opinion is, that both men were "asleep, or
nearly so," owing to having been on duty for sixteen hours
and a-half. "He expresses himself in very strong terms on
the great danger to the public of working engine-drivers and
firemen for too great a number of hours."--_Daily Chronicle_.]
_Who_ is in charge of the clattering train?
The axles creak, and the couplings strain.
Ten minutes behind at the Junction. Yes!
And we're twenty now to the bad--no less!
We must make it up on our flight to town.
Clatter and crash! That's the last train down,
Flashing by with a steamy trail.
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