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So, in the Sunday papers _you_, Del Mar,Damn, all great Englishmen in English speech?I am no Englishman, but in my reachA rogue shall never rail..

A merry Christmas? Prudent, as I live!You wish me something that you need not give.Merry or sad, what does it signify?To you 't is equal if I laugh..

When Man and Woman had been made,All but the disposition,The Devil to the workshop strayed,And somehow gained admission.The Master rested from his..

I should like, good friends, to mention the disaster which befellMr. William Perry Peters, of the town of Muscatel,Whose fate is full of meaning, if..

'O father, I saw at the church as I passedThe populace gathered in numbers so vastThat they couldn't get in; and their voices were low,And they..

The way was long, the hill was steep,My footing scarcely I could keep.The night enshrouded me in gloom,I heard the ocean's distant boomThe trampling..

'Tis the widow of Thomas Blythe,And she goeth upon the spree,And red are cheeks of the bystandersFor her acts are light and free.In a seven-ounce..

John Jackson, once a soldier bold,Hath still a martial feeling;So, when he sees a foe, behold!He charges him-with stealing.He cares not how much..

From end to end, thine avenue, Van Ness,Rang with the cries of battle and distress!Brave lungs were thundering with dreadful soundAnd perspiration..

In fair Yosemite, that den of thievesWherein the minions of the moon divideThe travelers' purses, lo! the Devil grieves,His larger share as leader..

With crow bones all the land is white,From the gates of morn to the gates of night.Picked clean, they lie on the cumbered ground,And the politician's..

I reckon that ye never knew,That dandy slugger, Tom Carew,He had a touch as light an' freeAs that of any honey-bee;But where it lit there wasn't..

Not all in sorrow and in tears,To pay of gratitude's arrearsThe yearly sumNot prompted, wholly by the prideOf those for whom their friends have..

What! Pixley, must I hear you call the rollOf all the vices that infest your soul?Was’t not enough that lately you did bawlYour money-worship in the..

Swains and maidens, young and old,You to me this tale have told.Where the squalid town of DaeIrks the comfortable sea,Spreading webs to gather..

Over the man the street car ran,And the driver did never grin.'O killer of men, pray tell me whenYour laughter means to begin.'Ten years to a day..

Off Santa Cruz the western waveWas crimson as with blood:The sun was sinking to his graveBeneath that angry flood.Sir Walter Turnbull, brave and..

Pope-choker Pixley sat in his denA-chewin' upon his quid.He thought it was Leo Thirteen, and thenHe bit it intenser, he did.The amber which overflew..

How blest the land that counts amongHer sons so many good and wise,To execute great feats of tongueWhen troubles rise.Behold them mounting every..

I dreamed one night that Stephen Massett died,And for admission up at Heaven applied.'Who are you?' asked St. Peter. Massett said:'Jeems Pipes, of..

Well, James McMillan Shafter, you're a JudgeAt least you were when last I knew of you;And if the people since have made you budgeI did not notice it...

'Twas an Injin chieftain, in feathers all fine,Who stood on the ocean's rim;There were numberless leagues of excellent brineBut there wasn't enough..

OM JONESMITH _(loquitur)_: I've slept right throughThe night-a rather clever thing to do.How soundly women sleep _(looks at his wife.)They're all..

Saint Peter at the gate of Heaven displayedThe tools and terrors of his awful trade;The key, the frown as pitiless as night,That slays intending..

Once on a time, so ancient poets sing,There reigned in Godknowswhere a certain king.So great a monarch ne'er before was seen:He was a hero, even to..