TO NUMBER 27X.

By Robert Fuller Murray

Beloved Peeler! friend and guide

And guard of many a midnight reeler,

None worthier, though the world is wide,

Beloved Peeler.

Thou from before the swift four-wheeler

Didst pluck me, and didst thrust aside

A strongly built provision-dealer

Who menaced me with blows, and cried

‘ Come on! Come on!’ O Paian, Healer,

Then but for thee I must have died,

Beloved Peeler!