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  2. Our Old Waterloo Man.

    The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talk't the night away; Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder's his crutch, and showed how fields were won. ...

    Article : 2,128 words
  3. SIR HENRY PARKES ADDRESSING THE ASSEMBLY ON THE "IRRESPONSIBLE HOSTILITY" OF THE COUNCIL.

    Sir HENRY PARKES: Talk of sessions being wasted! How can business be done if measures which have occupied days, weeks, and months in their preparation and deliberation, are cast to the winds, almost without consideration whatever, when they get into another place? There is no prospect of healthy legislation or of economy of time if this is to be the order of things in the future. In natural history, the supporters of the Cuvier theory of the fixity of species tell us that the sacred cats of the Egyptian tombs are the same type of cats as the cat which catches mice in our houses to-day—that the dog has remained a dog, that the ass has remained as ass through all the changes of four thousand years. No doubt this theroy is hotly disputed by the advocated transmutation; but if any ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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