FASHIONABLE STREET-SWEEPERS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3643, 23 March 1869, Page 4

FASHIONABLE STREET-SWEEPERS.

Splashing through the gutter*, Trailing through the mire, Mud up to the ankles, And a little higher., Little boys uproarious, 'Cause how you show your feet, Blew me thi« i« gloriouc, Sweeping down the street ! Bonnet on the shoulders, Nose up to the iky, Both hands full of floupoer, Baited & la &h»ng high ; Underskirts bespattered, Look amazing ne»t ; All your silks get " watered, Sweeping down the street ! Street-sweep at the crowing Says jou'll spoil her trade; Guesses you're the patent Btreet-sweeper w«dy made, Gives you a little jostle As she joins your suite ; Graoious what a bustle, Sweeping down the street Hetpi of dirt and dfibris Close behind yom trailing Joker says, " wit dry goods" M«ke first-rAto re-tailmg. Straws, oigur stumps " catohji^" And augment the fleet ; Qoodnen* I what a freshed SsiliDg down the itreet !

There id* -well-known editor "pni weifc," of the * name of Prentice. Prentise it neyer known to be '. pat oat; and accordingly Mr. Smitti (w« shall call htm), of thtf Cleveland Plain Dealer, made * fatal mutake when he penned tb« following: "Prenticeua tiar t and weWftll tell bin^«o; whea ir« meet himl* Prentioe tht« repU«s ! iii hi« next papir: ' "Ah I will you, Mf.^mitf ? AbQot'that time there, jvili be m funtrat, and iht^mth family vnii ti« t i« the principal.