May Day Celebration." Odd, that this particular RAINE should always
fall on the First of May.

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[Illustration: "BLOOD" _VERSUS_ "BULLION."

"WELL THEN, IT NOW APPEARS YOU NEED MY HELP: YOU THAT DID VOID
YOUR RHEUM UPON MY BEARD, AND FOOT ME, AS YOU SPURN A STRANGER CUR
OVER YOUR THRESHOLD; _MONEYS IS YOUR SUIT. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO
YOU?"_--_Merchant of Venice_, Act I., Sc. 3.]

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ODE TO COMPENSATION.

(_AFTER_ KIRKE WHITE.)

"That blessed word--'Compensation.'"

Come Compensation, come!
Not in thy terrors clad,
But in thy fairest, gentlest guise,
Thy "blessed" name but terrifies
The "Templar" and the "Rad."

Thou must not come as "Right,"
That is--alas!--"too steep."
The Law has put its foot hard down,
And "BUNG," so far, is quite done brown;