Dey dash deir glasses on de cround, Und tanz dill'tvas all to brick-duss ground, Ven dey hear von man had a ten-dollar note, De crowd go dead for dat rich man's troat. A demperance chap vot coomed dere in, Vent squanderin out mit his shell burst in; "It's walk your chalks, you loost your chance, Dis vot de call der Dootchmans' dance." Boot ven de law, mit his myrmidon, Vas hear of dese Dootchmen's carryins-on, Dey sent bolicemen shtern und good, To pull dose Dootch in Spraker's Wood. De Dootch vas all gone roarin mad, Und trinked mit Spraker all dey had; Dey shpend 'nuf money to last deir life, And each vas tantzin mit anoder man's wife. Dey all cot poonish difers vays, Some vent to jug for dirty tays; Und de von dat kilt de demperance man Vas kit from de Alderman repriman. Und dus it ran:-"A warnin dake, For you mighdt hafe mate soom pig mishdake; Now how vouldt you hafe feeled, py shing! If dat man hat peen in de whiskey ring? "Since you votes mine dicket, of course you know, I'm pound to led you shlide und go. Boot nefer on whiskey trink your fill, For you Dootchmen don't know who to kill." Now Deutschers all-on dis warning dink, Und don't get troonk on Yankee trink, For neider you, or anoder man, Can pe hocks like de New York rowdies can. So trink goot bier, mit musik plest, For if you tried your level best, You can't be plackguarts-taint in de plood: Dus endet de shdory of Spraker's Wood. I GILI ROMANESKRO. A GIPSY BALLAD. Vhen der Herr Breitmann vas a yungling, he vas go bummin aroundt goot deal in de worldt, vestigatin human natur, roulant de vergne en vergne, ash de Fraentsch boet says: "goin from town to town;" seein beobles in gemixed sociedy, und learnin dose languages vitch ornamendt a drue moskopolite, or von whose kopf ish bemosst mit experience. Mong oder tongues, ash it would appeared, he shpoke fluendly, Red Welsh, Black Dootch, Kauder-Waelsch, Gaunersprache, und Shipsy; und dis latter languashe he pring so wide dat he write a pook of pallads in it,-von of vitch pallads I hafe intuce him mit moosh droples to telifer ofer to de worldt. De inclined reader vill, mit crate heavy-hood blace pefore himself de fexation und lapor I hafe hat in der Breitmann his absents, to ged dese Shipsy verses broperly gorrected; as de only shentleman in town who vas culpable of so doin, ish peen gonfined in de town-brison, pout some droples he hat for shdealin some hens; und pefore I couldt consoolt mit him, he vas rooned afay. Denn I fond an oldt vomans Shipsy, who vas do nodings boot peg, und so wider mit pout five or four oders more. Derfore, de errordoms moost pe excused py de enlightened pooplic, who are fomiliar mit dis peautiful languashe, vitch is now so shenerally fashionabel in laterary und shpordin circles. F. SCHWACKENHAMMER. ---------- I GILI ROMANESKRO. Schunava, ke baschno del a godla, Schunava Paschomaskro. Te del miro Dewel tumen Dschavena Bachtallo.[3]