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d been as good as Gold, She Promised in the Afternoon To buy him an _Immense BALLOON_.And [Illustration] so she did; but when it came, It got into the candle flame, And being of a dangerous sort Exploded [Illustration] with a loud report! The Lights went out! The Windows broke! The Room was filled with reeking smoke. And in the darkness shrieks and yells Were mingled with Electric Bells, And falling masonry and groans, And crunching, as of broken bones, And dreadful shrieks, when, worst of all,

d been as good as Gold, She Promised in the Afternoon To buy him an _Immense BALLOON_.And [Illustration] so she did; but when it came, It got into the candle flame, And being of a dangerous sort Exploded [Illustration] with a loud report! The Lights went out! The Windows broke! The Room was filled with reeking smoke. And in the darkness shrieks and yells Were mingled with Electric Bells, And falling masonry and groans, And crunching, as of broken bones, And dreadful shrieks, when, worst of all,