F TUN.


[DECEMBER 7, 1861.


COTU-IETESIES OF1 TI-E :IELID.


Il'/jrpcer-in (with excitement) :-" GET ALONG'OME WITH YER WICIOUS OLD CAMEL, YER COCKNEY TAILOR! BLESSED IF YER ARNT KILLED
 OLD RASSELAS, OUR BEST 'OUND["
SNow our friend CIi'FFINs thought the man had come up to help him to remount the playful creature which had kicked him off, and taken a
 gallop among the hounds.-N.B. Several adjectives are repressed.]


 ALMANACK AND DIARY,
 ASTROLOGICAL AND METEORILLOGICAL NOTICES.
?lovemets in the Heavenly Bodies. The GEMINI, who have recovered
 from a severe indigestion (brought on by their intercourse with
 CANCER), being convalescent, are now staying with their MARS, at the
 8th House from the sign of the Bear.
TAUIruS looks threatening. There will probably be several sharp games
 of pitch and toss in NEPTUNE'S quarter.

 DECEMBER.

 I 5 Morning, at St. Verger-in-Fields. Tea Service and Sevre-al
 collection, in aid of China. Sermon by REV. T. Porr.
 M Teeth extracting from the mouth of the Thames.
 : Tu Scouring of Salisbury Plain by Volunteers-and imaginary
 brushes with the enemy.


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FIN pleads the general issue. Complimentary visit to the
 Editor by H.R.H. the PRINCE CONSORT and the Committee
 of Frozen-out Gardeners.
Cup day at the Royal College of Surgeons.
Grand West Riding Steeple Chase by Members of Convocation
 (York).
Free School Feast at the Bank of England. Ham Common
 and several tongues of land cut up into Sandwiches.


 LONDON GUIDE FOR COUNTRY VISITORS.-Interier of Bow-street Station-
hliose.-The interior of this remarkable building can be seen on applica-
Sion of your stick to somebody's head (some one in authority is best-say a
policeman) in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden; you will be speedily
S.1.. .., t ...... I,- conducted to the building,-not, however, free of charge.-
1 *. I, celebrated for its pretty barmaid and her arch-way It is
very convenient to sight-seers, being open at all hours of the day and night.
(eood accommodation for man and beast. Hotels and Taverns.-Lincoln's
Inn, House of Call for Lawyers; Gray's Inn, frequented by Grazing
Farmers; Dane's Inn, much resorted to by Swedes.


 HINTS FOR PEDESTRIANS IN LONDON.
 When Tired-Do not go to sleep on door-steps, a proceeding which
renders you liable to be disturbed by the police; but take forty 'winks
on an itinerant fish-stall in Oxford-street; the luxury will only cost
two-pence, and you'll get a pin into the bargain.
 When Hungry-Look -bout for a nice open gutter, and take a roll.
 When Thirsty-Jump over a sewer grating; this is the most simple
method of taking a drain.


 THE COMING SENSATION!
 "Year it goes round, round, round!"
 The Proprietors of FuN, wishing to make a few-roar with laughing, and alao to set the
 BRITISH PUBLIC
grinning from year to year, beg to announce that they have entered into arrangements with the
most exalted personages of the day (including BLosDIN) for the speedy production of the

 FUN ALMANAC FOR 1862,
 comprising some
 EDUCATIONAL MINUTES OF GREAT MOMENT,
(not second-hand information); an Essay on the Fore-quarters, by HIlno; Problems in
Draughts, by the GovEnon of the BANK ; Voice of the Stars, by a Lighterman, etc. The
Almanack will be of such a character that
 MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT
will be compelled to TAKE IT UP, and then find themselves totally unable to PUT IT DOWN.
I he Month of March will be devoted to the Volunteer Movement. Full Notice of the
 GREAT EXHIBITION,
which will OPEN in MaySand CLOSE to the Kensington Museum. Our Sporting Readers will
also be attended to, for our particularly fine cover will be drawn,without any chance of its being
a blank; and finally,the outside will give great promise, which any one may look uponas binding.
 HOORAY!


London: Printed and Published (for the Proprietors) by CHARLES WHYTE at the Office, 80, Fleet Street E.C.-Saturday, December 7,1801,


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