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Show StnoKe From the WeeKly Vtpe. " THE HEATHEN CHAUFFEUR. . v The highwayman lingered and carelessly fingered A piece of artillery longas a rope;-As rope;-As he waited and listened his evil eye glistened The careless mail coach was descending the slope. He was slightly unnerved as the Thing swiftly swerved And issued a shrieking and shrilling toot-toot What meant they to summon with noise so uncommon un-common In the overland coach which he purposed to loot. With Chauffeured pomposity, heedless velocity, It swooped down the slope on one rubber-tired wheel; .5. With screeching toot-toot it approached the galoot, ga-loot, Then shrieked the bold robber, "An automobile!" His musket unheeding, like catamount speeding, In terror the highwayman fled to his lair; Which all goes to show what you already know The whole world makes way for the heathen chauffeur. J . f |