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XXII.

STRIKE OFF A MEDAL IN COMMEMORATION.

We are on Bakery-hill, though, attention. Immediate objects of the Reform League.

I. An immediate change in the management of the gold-fields, by disbanding the Commissioners (undoubtedly the unanimous demand or "desire"—if the word suit better the well-affected—of all blue-shirts). Three cheers for Vern! Go it hearty! Fine fellow! Legs rather too long! never mind.

II. The total abolition of the diggers' and storekeeper's license tax. (Ah! ah! prick John Bull at his £. s. d., that's the dodge to make him stir.)

Three cheers for Humffray! Hurrah!

The whole of the grand talk of these Bakery reformers leagued together on its hill, can properly be framed in, on a "copper;" thus doing justice to all.


LET
a course of
action be decided on
and carried out unswervingly
until the heel of our oppressors
be removed from our necks.
DON'T LET THE THING DROP THROUGH
for want of co-operation and support,
Nota Bene.
2s. 6d. gentleman's ticket.
No admittance for ladies at present.
Durum sed levius fit patientia.
'Remember!
GOD HELPS HIM WHO HELPS HIMSELF (to the 2s. 6d.)
DO NOT LET
the word "British" become a bye-word.
AND ABOVE ALL LEAVE OFF SINGING
"Britons never, never shall be slaves,"
until you leave fondling
the chains which
prove the song
a lie,
a mockery,
a delusion,

a snare.

Great works!