The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-24
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.


requested. The more think OF II, how
ever. the more think that perhaps he was
after the original rather than the parody.
but IL he is unfamiliar with the clever
verses OF Frank Richardson in "shavinss'
quainted with them II. p. T.
Are you ready for your steeplechase, Lor~
raine. Lorraine. Lc-ee?
Barum. Barum. Barum, Barum. Barum,
Barum, Baree.
(Which may be clear enough TO you It's
ultra Greek to mel
You're booked TO ride your Gaping race
to-day at Coulteriee.
q cannot find the blessed place in any
You're booked to ride vindicuve with an
infant on your knee,
with which no doubt, you'll turn the
scale at over twelve stone three.
Barum Barum. Barum. Barum, and 20
on. &c.
She ciasped her newborn baby. poor Lor-
raine. Lorraine, Loree.
Barum. Barum. Barum. Barum Barum.
Barum. Baree.
(Which, perhaps. conveys a meaning TO
Lady Beerbohp Tree.)
81 cannot ride Vindictive with baby on
my knee.
He's killed a man In self-defence and why
should he kill me?
How can ride Gaping race with
creches on my kneeT'
Her husband vas callous brute, who
But whispered IN the eager ear Of poor
Lorraine Loree.
1--WE backed you for thousand pounds
and you'll stand in with me-
Bar one, bar one" the bookies cried,
Bar one. bar two, bar threer'
She mastered young vindictive, Oh the
crafty matron shel
And kept him straight and won the race
at s to 3, S. p.
And then they warned her Off the turf Of
| festive Coulterlee,
| For II was but a dummy child she had
upon her knee.
| No wonder that no baby cried for Flash
Lorraine Lorce.
In future the Loree's address undoubt-
eddy should be.
Barnum. Barnum, Barnum, Barnum,
| Barnum, and exc Bailee.
| I enclose a copy OF THE wild Geese
| which one of your correspondents asked
| for. JAMES LoUGHLIN.
THE WILD GEESE.
This was the heading across the papers:
Forty-fve Irlshmen back from the
Vaal
Rich in adventure and tales Of rare
fighting
Mid kopje and spruit in the land OF
Dom Paul.
And this is the toast we drank when we
read II,
Drank to the daredevil os and the
Mack's:
Health to the wild Geese. rovers oil
Erin:
wild Geese. Columbia welcomes yor
back.
Little she cares though you left at tn,
lifting
The borders OF Shannon or mountain
OF Maine;
You fought for the life of a sister 70
| public
And dare not return to your Island o
Green.
Soldiers OF fortune, free lancss ever.
Yet fighting the old fight steady an,
| true:
Never forgiving and never forgetting
The treaty stone when the FIRST gees
flew.
And as It was in the days OF sarsneld
SO 1t will be meath palm or yew,
Where England numbers her foes In bait,
She must always reckon the Wild Gees
too.
Then ere We parted we drank another
, To the cause they upheld in battle an
trek.
And tearfully thought OF the Irish mothc
A For God knows the Wild Geese don
all f'y back.
What was the eventual fate OF III
. glded boy in the Venetian holidays {
the Middle Ages? Was he sacrificed q
|, did he die a natural death? l.. J, l..
The death was sacrihcial. although
y was due to natural causes. 1t WAS Ion
r. held that the boy died through the stor
page OF the pores. for his whole skin wa
covered wi.h gold leaf applied with alb,
men to cause It to stick. II was SUI
posed that this stoppage OF the pores an
occluslon OF perspiration caused h reter
ton of urea which speedily caused dealt
Some thirty years ago this judgment va
relnouished and modern science hole
| he6he'ciV tiS Va HiNiOBVH y
the sweat through the skin except In Il
case OF persons performing great physics
labor In a high temperature. The eau,
of death OF the silded boy OF Venice
now assigned 10 the reduction OF bodl
temperature through the high degree
heat radiation from the metal GOVERN
thus intimately attached to the body.
What book describes the prisoner WI
feeds a rat in his cell and finally makes
friend OF the rat? Who was the autho
Has the story been dramatized and
whom2 Ii there a painting on the su
ject3 BY whom and where is the ori
inal? ]. c. g.
Yet was II not a mouse7 Tho sole re
erence In the handbooks is to the enc
that Everybody remembers the story
the prisoner and the mousse stateme
clearly disproved In the case OF this que
TONER and this answerer 1t Is recall
as set forth In one of the simpler boo
which beginners In French attack. b
just which one has passed from memo
and the good Larousse neglected to reoo
It. Probably dozens of correspondent
know all about It and will be glad
come to the rescue.
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