time I've had a distrust to cable-cars. The rope breaking is no great odds, bekase you can stop the car, but it's getting the grip tangled with the running rope that spreads ruin and desolation over thriving communities and prevents the development of local resources." FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 19: "Turnovers," Vol. VII.] IN PARTIBUS[20] _The 'buses run to Battersea, The 'buses run to Bow, The 'buses run to Westbourne Grove, And Nottinghill also; But I am sick of London town, From Shepherd's Bush to Bow._ I see the smut upon my cuff And feel him on my nose; I cannot leave my window wide When gentle zephyr blows, Because he brings disgusting things And drops 'em on my "clo'es." The sky, a greasy soup-toureen, Shuts down atop my brow. Yes, I have sighed for London town And I have got it now: And half of it is fog and filth, And half is fog and row. And when I take my nightly prowl, 'Tis passing good to meet The pious Briton lugging home His wife and daughter sweet, Through four packed miles of seething vice, Thrust out upon the street. Earth holds no horror like to this In any land displayed, From Suez unto Sandy Hook, From Calais to Port Said; And 'twas to hide their heathendom The beastly fog was made. I cannot tell when dawn is near, Or when the day is done, Because I always see the gas And never see the sun, And now, methinks, I do not care A cuss for either one. But stay, there was an orange, or An aged egg its yolk; It might have been a Pears' balloon Or Barnum's latest joke: I took it for the sun and wept To watch it through the smoke. It's Oh to see the morn ablaze Above the mango-tope, When homeward through the dewy cane The little jackals lope, And half Bengal heaves into view, New-washed--with sunlight soap. It's Oh for one deep whisky peg When Christmas winds are blowing, When all the men you ever knew, And all you've ceased from knowing, Are "entered for the Tournament, And everything that's going." But I consort with long-haired things In velvet collar-rolls, Who talk about the Aims of Art, And "theories" and "goals," And moo and coo with women-folk About their blessed souls. But that they call "psychology" Is lack of liver pill, And all that blights their tender souls Is eating till they're ill, And their chief way of winning goals Consists in sitting still. It's Oh to meet an Army man, Set up, and trimmed and taut, Who does not spout hashed libraries Or think the next man's thought, And walks as though he owned himself, And hogs his bristles short. Hear now, a voice across the seas To kin beyond my ken, If ye have ever filled an hour With stories from my pen, For pity's sake send some one here To bring me news of men!