THE OLD SONG.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3541, 1 May 1880, Page 4

THE OLD SONG.

"Take back the heart," as the man said who drew one when he wanted a diamond.

" Gum, gum away to the pearly fountain," was sung, by the man who dropped his false teeth into the creek.

"All's swell" was composed and sung by the man who sat down on an oak stump using a navy-blue wasp for a wshion. 11 Bee ware" was the national song of honey merchants. " Dream, baby dream " was sung and said very energetically by the man who patrolled the floor while the colic patrolled his baby. ' 11 Good bye, sweet tart" was chanted by the dyspeptic man who couldn't eat pie. " Somebody is Waiting for Me,'' was wailed out by the man who had been to the lodge, lost his night key. and could gee the'shadow of his wife's mother's night-capped head on the curtain of the sitting-room. . tf Larboard Watch " is the favorite lay of the recent idiot who wears two watches. ..;,•-•

" Life without Thee would be Dreary," sung by the man, name and place of residence.unknowa, just prior to turning his pocket flask very nearly upside down. " The Story that Never grows Okr," was chanted by the man who only l<ncw one, and told it every time ho could get a crowd together. "Wait till the Moon goes down," was the favourite song of a burglar.