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? COMIC A bluff' grenadier, under great Marshal Had his head cut clean off by a Lockabar axe. But his comrade replaced it so ni? em it f?i, T?t,a hand.rebel ti? rou? ? ?ck . D? down, Now. h? me? w? ?ho?, ?nd his neck vo? 1o?. ?ieh he'd bow ?m .nd thin when ha ?; � A? one n?ht ?ating time to the tale I tell yo? Hz gave ?ch a nod ?hat away hh head I ?uld ?11 other stori?, but here mean to ?1 ?hat you have he? may have ? ?dce, em my n?ve ve? I I m?t ?d ?me more sub?c? e?ually t?e. THE BLIND PRIEST. A ?R?.ST of Kajaaga, as blind as a stone, When he took to hi? bosom a wife, Cried, "deaD,, I never shall see you I own, But you'll be the del/ght of my l/re." ' Then his arm o'er her shoulders he lovingly pass?l, And says he, "my love, what is this IroniC" 8he faltered a little--but told him at last,

  • ' Pie? your holiness, only my hump."

?ys the priest, "t?en we eannot cohabit, d*y? sram, Though 1 tenderly love you, ?ndeed, ]Per I've taken an oath that my children sha'n't bm Of the camel and buffalo breed." IBo he married another h? fancisd would/it-- Coming home, in sweet conjugal talk, She atept the blind priest, saying, "?t down a bit, For my !?s am too bandy to walk."