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Show Street Car Poems. The horse-car poema are multiplying multiply-ing all over the land, tho poetical genius ol the nation now being exer cised in that direction. The genis usually run in this style, that is those telling how to stop a car: When the passenger perceives a karc. He niUBt raise hii voico and shout Hi, there ! , , , Mast IlourUh his arms and danco and swear, To attract tbe attention of the conduc- Wbo,torLap5, is insido colleetiog bi3 Or "fixirS thines" with hw guy drivarc. Tliat Lbeir private accounls may bo all on tho square. . , , CHORUS. Then shout, bays, shout! Bhout Hi Shvut till you're hoarse, and don't despair; des-pair; Cry out, ladies, a? loud as you daw, And oa W aa you over have breath to spur; , Shout to the man who takes your faro; Shout to tijc driver and condutare. ' Here is a fair sample of the getting-ofl-the car poem: When tbe pasacngar wishes to leavo Hie cair, , , . Ho must iinn tho bell with a modest air; MumL bow to tho gentlemanly dnvsir, And say, "Beg yur pardon, excuee me But reHy I'd like to get out or tbe Thin thedriver will turn with a terrible glair, . . And shout at the wretched paeacnjair. "A blank of a place to stop tbia air Machine, on thin grade; you hold en thair.' ' And calmly and cold grows tho pawon-jair, pawon-jair, And bo wilts like a blighted curum-bair. curum-bair. But this ia a brilliant on 6ne of the brief cars those on the Warm Spring line, for inbtance which the boys call "a little one for a cent:" Tbtm ther' tho bb tailed, one-horse With only ono driver and no conduc- : Wii're tho pnsspngor has to deposit his In a box i tuck up near tho lierco dri-AnJ dri-AnJ jiut a'a you'ro clawing around In tho Tootnyour,,andfa,lofcha"K8 in tlmt j Th . onc-howe yunks 'round a.aha-p cor- ! And down you tumble, and the.e you j arc. |