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[Illustration:  The warning of the Belle

Look out for the Train]

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Patriotic adoration.

A tale of Philadelphia.

    People of the Quaker City,
      How the world must stand aghast
    At your wondrous veneration
      For those relics of the past,
    Kept in such precise condition,
      Fostered with such tender care—­
    Don’t, oh! don’t the Philadelphians
    Love old Independence Square?

    Splendid are its walks and grass-plots
      Where the bootblacks base-ball play,
    And its seats resembling toad-stools,
      On which loafers lounge all day,
    Waiting for their luck, or gazing
      At the office of the Mayor—­
    Don’t, oh! don’t the Philadelphians
      Love old Independence Square?

    Then, behold the fine old State-house
      Cleanly kept inside and out,
    Where the faithful office-holders
      Squirt tobacco-juice about: 
    Placards highly ornamental
      Decorate its outward wall—­
    Don’t, oh! don’t the Philadelphians
      Love old Independence Hall?

    O! ye gods and little fishes! 
      Could bill-sticker be so vile
    As to paste up nasty posters
      On the sacred classic pile? 
    Greece and Rome yet have their relics,
      But what are they? very small. 
    Never half so venerated
      As old Independence Hall.

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Periodical literature.