Merry-go-roundelays . ote. 77 PARADOXYGEN {Provoked by G, K. American Lecture Tour,) nPHE atmosphere is decidedly queer,?- Its evident not feeling well, and the reason: I smellParadoxygen in the air I This rarefaction agrees with some, But I, who am bourgeois, findIt hard as the deuce on the lungs—and a truce I seek with the Chesterton mind I Oh, Gilbert, I know there are many who likeYour talks on The Darkness of Light, The Shortness of Length and The Weakness ofStrength,And the one on The Lowness of Height. They tell me youre simply immense, old dear,In that speech on The U
Merry-go-roundelays . ote. 77 PARADOXYGEN {Provoked by G, K. American Lecture Tour,) nPHE atmosphere is decidedly queer,?- Its evident not feeling well, and the reason: I smellParadoxygen in the air I This rarefaction agrees with some, But I, who am bourgeois, findIt hard as the deuce on the lungs—and a truce I seek with the Chesterton mind I Oh, Gilbert, I know there are many who likeYour talks on The Darkness of Light, The Shortness of Length and The Weakness ofStrength,And the one on The Lowness of Height. They tell me youre simply immense, old dear,In that speech on The Upness of Down, And I also have read that youre knocking em deadIn the one on The Blueness of Brown. 78 Paradoccygen My neighbor keeps telling me, How I adore His Legality of the Illicit,And Ive also a liking intense for his striking Obscurity of the Explicit! Yet I am unmoved. And the reason^ Oh, well, The same I intend to expoundSome evening next week, when Im going to speak On The Shallowness of the Profound. 79. eniBttes DUEL PERSONALITIES Recently Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck challenged SirHamar Greenwood to mortal combat in the House of Com-mons, . . Within the past few months there have beenother challenges of a similar nature in England^ but in eachcase it has not been difficult to persuade the disputants notto fight a duel,—News Item, LORD ALEXANDER RUPERT ROCHE wastaking lunch one dayWith his distinguished fellow-peer, the Earl of Alexander Rupert Roche, I think the pheas-ants Halloway, Not pheasant, boob. Thats quail upon your Roche, I say its pheasant, sir! How dare you contradict me^80 Duel Personalities Said H., Well fight it out and see; no man hasever licked me! Pistols and coffee at seven! There^s going to he a duel!Someone is going to heaven! (They say lords do^ as a rule,)When a breach cannot he mended A peer must have his fling!Theres honor to he defended! And honor is no small thing! Scene: Dueling-ground. The lord an
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