It rings - the mighty Bell of God, It thrills the heart beneath the sod, And spirits of our patriot sires Kindle again the sacred fires.

Hallelujah!

It rings - and angels from the heights, Salute the Flag of Canine rights ; The Seraphs rush on radiant wing, With all the cherubs with us to sing Hallelujah!

It rings - and all the stars stand still Entranced, t' enjoy the rapturous thrill. And swear it is, upon their word. The grandest sound they ever heard.

Hallelujah!

It rings - and from its tongue of flame It writes upon the sky a name - The name of Freedom ; kneel, Oh earth ; God struck the hour that gave it birth.

Hallelujah ! Hallelujah!

The pealing of this hymn held all the dogs entranced, and as the last beautiful note died away, they all wept, and said it was lovely poetry; too lovely for anything; especially where the life-knell of the Bell thrills the hearts of the dead dogs under the sod; and the Bell with its long and facile flaming tongue writes names on the sky.

Then President Dephool Flea, after waiting a few rapturous moments to let the beautiful words soak into their souls, announced that "our" liberties having now been duly established, and acknowledged of Heaven, the Blessed Bell was now open for every one to hammer his gratitude to God on, and. that each would take a turn in order.

Which they did. All the fat, eminent and Monstrous Fleas gathered in single file, and passed before the Bell and hammered it, giving one blower himself, and thirteen times and forty-four times and six times, on behalf of the all-glorious liberties, wealth, prosperity and happiness of the dogs. And everybody was delighted, especially the big fleas, who said it was the very best amusement they had ever had in their lives; and they begged the Bamboozling Committee to keep it up, for, far beyond all considerations of the amusement of it, it was the bulliest piece of dust throwing ever yet devised for blinding those d - fool dogs.

So the Bamboozling Committee and the Great Many Headed Gee Whizz, put their wits together again; and the ever fertile Daily said that, as he had foretold, the Bell racket and show had pleased the dogs immensely, the Committee should go on giving them emblems to look at and noise to make. "But," said he, "let us give them a chance to make the noise themselves. Ye and the other fleas have had all the hammering so far; let them do it now. I propose we get them to make an emblematic Rope, a long Rope, a strong Rope, and a Rope they can pull the old Bell clapper all together with.

"Set them to make a Rope that shall be emblematic of their common wealth, their common caninity, their common Liberty, their common dirt, their common itch, their common hunger - their common everything. Let each one strip a few hairs off his hide and his tail, and bring them as an offering to Liberty, and let all those hairy contributions be spun into a great Liberty Rope. Then one end thereof shall be attached to the great clapper, and as many of the dogs as can shall get hold and pull; and it shall be pull and bang, and bang and pull, and pull aud bang, until the poor imbeciles will go mad and crazy with the delightful racket; and the noise shall fill their bellies - which, you know, is the cheapest kind of victuals."

"Hurrah for the Great Gee Whizz!" cried the Bamboozlers, "Liberty Noise and Liberty Ropes are cheaper than Liberty."

And, as before, The Great Daily Press, with awful solemnity, publicly announced that the dogs were agoing to have more emblems to celebrate their glorious liberties and privileges with.

And when the dogs heard the great emblematic Liberty Rope proposition, they wagged their tails and howled deliriously for joy, and went lachrymoniously drivelling to each other that Canisville was indeed the place where Freedom dwelt, and that no other dogs on the face of the earth had a Liberty Bell, Liberty Poetry and a Liberty Rope; no indeed.

And the dogs hasted and each stripped some hair off his tail and hide, and sent it to the Bamboozling Committee, who, in the privacy of their meeting place, had it spun, to the accompaniment of many a wink and many a hilarious laugh over the silly idiots that were so easily - oh, so very easily - buncoed and bamboozled out of Liberty, by Liberty emblems and shams.

And when the great common Rope was ready, they ordained another day of howling thanksgiving, and self laudation, and self glorification, and a solemn moment of attachment of the end thereof to the glorious Banger of the glorious Bell, and a solemn consecration and dedication of the Rope, and another grand hymn, which called all the angels from their most pressing engagements to crowd Heaven's battlements, in admiration of their magnificently idiotic jubilation.

And the dogs were tickled to death with their Rope, and took turns of gangs at pulling it; and the eternal banging and clanging and jangling of the hammered metal was so delightful that they forgot their hunger even ; and they danced around the Bell, and kissed it, and touched it reverently with their noses, and blessed God for Liberty, Liberty, Liberty.

And at the suggestion of the Great Gee Whizz, the. Bamboozling Committee made a multitude of little tinkling bells, verisimilitudes of the Great Bell, and touched each one on the Great Bell, and it was so that virtue went out of the Great Bell and made a true Liberty Tinkler of the little one.

And the Committee ordained that each truly patriotic dog hang a Liberty Tinkler on the end of his nose, one in each of his ears, and a row of them on his tail, to the end that all the world and everybody else might hear the noise of Liberty, and that every dog, at every movement of his body and wag of his tail, might be a living, eternal Proclamation of Liberty throughout the land.

And it was so. And the dogs were delighted and hung little Liberty Tinklers upon themselves as ordered; and all Canis-ville rang with Liberty.

But in a short time the fat fleas, and the eminent fleas, and the Monstrous Fleas, seeing that the Blessed Bell and the Liberty ceremonies had quite served their purpose, and the poor fool dogs had been hypnotized into a very satisfactory state of forgetfulness of their wrongs and miseries, told the Bamboozling Committee that they might now with safety conclude the amusement and close up the show, as it was somewhat expensive.

So the Bamboozling Committee, ordering one grand final hammering, that made the startled angels jump, and a grand final well for Liberty, which made the air tremble for a week after, and a benediction in chorus by all the salaried barkers, that sounded like the last tapering-off roll of distant thunder, declared the greatest and grandest show of the ages closed.