THE DEVIL OUTCLASSED.
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Mr W. F. Dickens-Lewis, of Findlay, Ohio, sends to the Spectator tha following lines from an American Socialist paper, the Rip-Saw:— The Devil sat by the Lake of FirJ en
a pile of sulphur kegs; His head was bowed upon his
bietst,
his tail between his legs; A look of shame \va3 on bis face, the
sparkß dripped from his eyes — He had sent his resignation to the throne up in the skies
"I'm down and oat," the Devil saidhe said it with a sob— "There are other 3 that outclass me and I want to quit my job. Kell isn't in it ' t with the land that lies
along the Rhine;
I'm old and out-of-date and therefore I resign ;
One Krpup-munition maker, with his bloody shot and shell,
Knows more about damnation than all ■ the i r\r. vi Hell. Give my j;b to Kaiser Bill or to; Fo:----diritnd the Czar, Or to the Sultan Abriul tiami:!, or some sucp man of war. 1 hate to leave the old home, the spot I i^ve so wpII, But 1 feel that I'm not up-to-date in the art cf running Hell.'' And the Dev\l, spat a squirt cf j;teatn at a brimstone bumblebee, And muttered: "I'm outclassed by Hohenzollern Deviltry."
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6593, 22 January 1916, Page 4
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