PREFACE.

HIS is the third book of rhymes with which I have tried the patience of the public. My

present volume, like my two previous ones, is composed of pieces that have already seen the light in various periodicals. However unsatisfactory the reader may pronounce them in a collected form, I trust that their brevity will preserve them from the charge of being separately tedious.

To those gentlemen who have given me the right of republication, I beg to convey hereby my sincere thanks.

H. S. L.