Show LONDON GOSSIP from a casual correspondent ue lie Is evidently in a merry kerry mood blithely blithely mr editor I 1 trust you on are all serene ai air r your emual has recovered fro from ni his great fall and rears a bold front to the billows of life and meets the harsh winds of adversity with a beaming countenance good lack sir bir autis au a merry world if one had but tho the stomach to laugh withal but man is is a peevish creature and mingles the spirit of his hii thanks with so much of the luke warm water of repining that the liquor of his devotion 13 is most vile bah I 1 I 1 hate such melancholy mewing A plague upon those whining puling puppies of men who seem ever in dread and expectancy of kicks from fortunes toe give me the jolly dog who finds joy in in even the shake of the dish rag I 1 hate your conditioned ill curs that are sire for ever yelping helping sir give me good goo health good worda words good friends good up appetite etite and a good salary and while the winds iu in the west always finda finds me we joley when the winds ia t the e east however Io h wever I 1 grant you I 1 am but so so now then most jovial blade and jolly paper boiler have at thee I 1 well begin air with the parliamentary news aha abal oh hoi hot parliament amentis ie closed there is no parliamentary news why is not that the best news of all there sir air have I 1 not a pretty wit have at thee again then thou stern denizen of main st I 1 thou hast bast probably seen about the Bul bulgarian aarian business the russians say they will not acx annex lex bulgaria 1 but they will the bulgara say a t hey I 1 die before be annexe annexed N b but ut tb they wont I 1 do not believe e that alexander was half so much surprised as he let on to be it is i like playing to the gallery sir bir but it ia is pleasing to see tho the thoughtful mind why when a man lies like that gen kaulbars Kaul bare I 1 could hug him I 1 recognize in bi hin bin n at once a man and a brother ah I 1 mr editor how bow truly beautiful and beautifully true are the words of the poet One Touch louch of humbug makes the whole world kin I 1 some friends arienda rienda of mine have taken me to task for saying that prince albert victor the prince of vales eldest son was to marry an american lady 11 what eaid I 1 dont yu think hee hes good n lhnn aj 1 party ayi ji with a dignified deportment a and nd ft a mole on bis his nose 11 a prince cannot marry a commoner no said 1 I 11 be cannot marry a commoner than some of the boye boys who have picked kicked up the eilish princesses 11 dont frivol growled the blue blooded we must draw the line somewhere then I 1 remarked draw it through new york or the fiji islands or anywhere you please but dont you engage any more of the german band exeunt I 1 sir my space is full As I 1 eaid said before this is a merry world the weather here is astonishingly good parliament has the shutters epand trade is improving L let et ue us sing tra I 1 la I 1 la I 1 and banish dull care I 1 hope y your our appetite is good and your tailor af affable my tailor and I 1 are well our relations are strained I 1 am blithe and bonny hopmeir hope Hopee air ir hovers about me on her spot spoilers lers pin IZI p inions ons joy sits smiling by my eide side and weaving flowery charlete cha for my classic brow and my name is i s goo good at the adjacent hostelry for anything thing I 1 like to poison myself with adieu then respected friend ever of thee COCKAYNE Lo LONDON eng eug oct 2 1886 |