Will Sir EDWARD SOLOMON be in it? Probably this is "another night."

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LAYS OF MODERN HOME.

NO. V.--BUTLERLESS.

[Illustration: (Butler.)]

Oh! bring my Butler back to me;
I stray and lapse alone!
If this be freedom, to be free
Were something best unknown.
He used to look so grand and grave--
So sad when I was slack;
'Twas difficult to misbehave--
Oh, bring my Butler back!

In him was nothing flash nor green--
A Seneschal confessed;
Most people deemed his reverend mien
Some family bequest.
And yet but three short, happy years
Had seen him on our tack,
And made us verge on VERE DE VERES--
Oh, bring my Butler back!

A Pedigree in swallow-tails,
He gave our household "tone."