And so, if you a labourer were,
(The which of course you're not),
And saw a rabbit in your ground
A-nibbling--on the spot

You'd go for him with spade or fork,
At which, so it appears,
There rang throughout the crowded room
"Enthusiastic cheers."

A Peer's advice is always good,
So doubtless they will grab it,--
_But_ no one will be happier than
The cabbage-nibbling rabbit!

* * * * *

A LITTLE STRANGER.

["At the meeting of the Bermondsey Vestry, the Medical Officer
reported that water drawn from the service-pipe of a house
in the Jamaica Road, had been submitted to him. The water was
clear, but it contained a live horse-leech."--_Daily Paper_.]

Oh, into our domestic pipes
They crawl and creep by stealth,
The gruesome creatures known unto
An Officer of Health!
Harken to him of Bermondsey,
Think what his murmurings teach,