"My friend," said I, as I gracefully described an imaginary aureole about my brain factory, "you abolish the poll-tax.

" The little man went out, and came back agin shoving in a fat, stumpy Zulu woman wot began to grin and chatter like a poll-parrot the moment she saw Rupert.

When the withers begin to swell and inflammation sets in, or a tumor begins to form, the whole may be driven away and the fistula scattered or avoided by frequent or almost constant applications of cold waterthe same as is recommended in poll-evil.

Photographed from the original poll-book, now on file in the county clerk's office, Springfield, Illinois.

* Are these watchful ladies all eye?But observe what follows; 'I wish it had been a poll-axe, and in the hands of his worst enemy.'

And therefore, old Silver-top, never talk of charging or discharging: for I tell you, I am my father's heir; and if you discharge me, I'll discharge my pestilence at you: for to let my house before my lease be out, is cut-throatery; and to scrape for more rent, is poll-dennery; and so fare you well, good grandsire Usury.

For we poor Germans, who have already been sufficiently vexed with having soldiers quartered on us, military duties, poll-taxes, and a thousand other exactions, must needs, over and above all this, bag Mr. Adelung and torment one another with accusatives and datives.