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

For instance, if you want to bag lots of Dead Rabbits, TWEED will be the best stuff you can wearespecially about November 8th, on which day you will be certain to find Some Quail about the polling places.

It was with pardonable pride that Billy Adams reined in his foaming team, and rushed John Thomas into the polling booth, where he was greeted with loud cheers.

" 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.

At last came the polling day, and a happy relief from an unpleasant situation it certainly was.

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.'

In another way he was a good citizen, for when at Mount Vernon he invariably attended the election, rain or shine, though it was a ride of ten miles to the polling town.

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.

In boroughs the time was abridged in a similar proportion, and the arrangement was facilitated by a division of counties into several convenient polling districts, so that no elector should require to travel more than a few miles to record his vote.

The operation of the plan slightly modified, as now proposed in Massachusetts, is briefly this: In the polling room as now, is the ballot-box; this none but those in the act of voting and the officers are allowed to approach.

At my last contest for the London County Council I had to spend the half hour before the close of the vote in one of the polling stations of a very poor district.

When polling-time came, Sir George found the feeling against him was so strong, and we were so successful in beating his voters out of the town, in spite of police and soldiers, that he resigned his candidature.