he courage to get
The directest way out of the irons of debt.

Cut 'em through--that's the plan--as you'd sever a stick--
It don't take but one stroke, and 'tis done smooth and slick;
Hurl the bits off to fly on the wild winds afar!
Unless you keep one just to light a cigar.

For they are but paper--is paper to bind
The young Eagle to Earth, when to soar he's a mind?
He will snap the weak chain the first instant he springs
With the sun in his eye and the steam in his wings.

Loss of credit! what's that to the souls who rely
On themselves, and the hiss of the world can defy?
What is debt? Don't the talented EMERSON say
We have got other debts, besides money, to pay?

We reckon those other debts due first to fall,
The cash debt's the one which we'll pay last of all;
That's the genuine rule by which true Genius goes
In settling the endless account which it owes.

From the glorious fact, that our bonds we have bust,
Let mankind learn the lesson of thorough self-trust,
Though our sister States credit may cease to obtain,
And no mortal will trust Mississippi again!

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A THOUGHT PICKED OUT OF THE COAL-SCUTTLE.--Vices are like coals--the
more they are screened, the more the larger ones show.

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[Illustration: THE MINISTERIAL SPLIT.

_Palmerston._ "I'LL JUST FRIGHTEN THEM A LITTLE."]

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[Illustration: Index]

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Abode of Bliss (An), 113

Affair with the (Knightsbridge) Caffres (An), 154

Age of Compliments (The), 138

Agricultural Bruisers, 245

Agricultural Inquisition, 207

Alarming Accident, 137

Alarming Discovery (An), 218

Alarming Railway Accident, 95

Albert Statue Movement (The), 212

Alderman's Hope (The), 263

All my Eye and Beate Martin, 131

American Joke Explained (An), 262

Another and Another Still Succeeds, 148

Another Ghost, 145

Another Insult to Ireland, 37, 152

Another Insult from the Saxon, 124

Another Irish Grievance, 12

Another Money Question, 153

Another Rupture with France, 12

Albany for the Million (An), 223

Aristocracy and its Antipodes, 198

Arms of England (The), 178

Australian Clipper (An), 113

Autocrat's Anthem (An), 233

Bad Beer with a Good Name, 54

Bar and the Liberty of Conscience (The), 224

Barristers of England (The), 215