F:P UN.


 Mary :-" On PLEASE, SIR, WOULD YOU PLEASE TO LEND Mrss'
LETTY ONE OF TOUR COLOURED FLANNEL SHIRTS, AND ONE OF YOUR LAY-
DOWN COLLARS?"
 Lord of the Creation:-"Now YOU KNOW-BY JOVE !--YOU KNOW
 -WHAT THE DOOSE !--
 (N.B.)-He need no excite himself: his sister only wants to try the
effect before ordering some GARIBALDI Shirts.


 PRIZE POEM ON A PRIZE OX.
 DEDICATED TO TIHE SMIITHFIELD CLUB-
OF fat cattle I heard tattle,
 As I walked about the show,
And I wondered, and I ponder'd,
 As I wandered to and fro,
Can these bulky, burly, sulky
 Beasts have sense of future state;
Could they (Cud they?) with their minds as months,
 Like mortals ruminate ?
"To be sewer, sir, you're a cure, sitr,
 I'm an ox, an' you're an nss;
Or you'd agree wi' well-fct' .,.,
 As all poor, proud prize-flcsh' is grass .
We ha' feelings, brain-revea.in'-.
 Retrospections, mem'ry- .
Quoth an ox, in a lone beox,--
 I beg his pardon,-in a stall.
Thus admonished, quite astonished,
 Almost fainting did I fall;
To hear oxen, like an Oxon,
 Giving vent to his ox-gall;
Thick sighs breathing, dewlap heaving,
 Chest depressed, mouth munching dew,
 All fat men are sentimental,
 SSo why not fat oxen too ?
 "I'ma Devon! Oneof seven,
 Ev'ry one on us a prize,
 And that short-horn I'm a courten',
 But she lists not to my size;


To this Devon she's a dear'nl,
 And in vain 'tis 1 iniplore ;
I shall love that maiden-lheilr,
 For heifer, heifer more
" 1 the pasture, no ox faster
 Showed her where sweet herbage grew;
I'd forsake grass and oil-cake,
 At the voice of lovely Loo' !
With a Kerry she'd make merry,
 With a Jersey would be free,
 All compliance wil t a Shetlanl,
 She'd be all deniii to me!
 "With a Leicester fate had blessed her,
 Ide went mad through jealousy!
 Then a Durham, nowt could stir him,
 So 1 toss'd him up a tree!
 With a Susses (false is her sex),
 Many more,-till one sad day
 fame the butcher, here to fetch her,
 And steal my sweet Gall-away!
 This December, each dear ne'mber
 Will be hung up] in ia shop,
 She will make juicy lee'-steak,
 And her sweet tender ribs they'll chop.
 Butcher's knife, come, t. io my life,
 Lest I die of broken heart!
 As prime moat, love, wo shall meet, love,
 Never, never more to part!
 Hung on hooks, love, eyo'd by cooks, love,
 P'raps together we may roast;
 Both a turning, yearning, burning,
 Wasting, basting for the host;
 Boiled or bal'd, love, vengeance take, lbve?
 When on well-dish deep we rest,
 Thoso who eat us shall regret us,
 We'll lay heavy on the chest!"


DECEMBER 21, 181 ]


 I sat waiting, ruminating
 Upon what the ox had spoke,
 I was meditating making
 A reply, when I AW OKE !
 I'd been dining, and been wine-ing,
 Seen the show the day before,
 Dreaming of the cattle lowing,
 I'd but heard my own loud snoro!



 NOTICE.
 THIE R-T H-x. V--S--NT P-Lr,---IST--N is advised tlili we
 saw him walking down Fleet-street, on Wednesday la:s, with ai colpy
 of FuN in his hand. In his haste to ascertain what we had to inly n~i
 the American question, he cut tho leaves with his forefinger. V,,
 regretted to find his L-d-p indulging in a hasto which wx:i
 neither conducive to his personal dignity, nor respect fil tlihe
 periodical in his hand.


 TinE AMERICAN RUNNER.--Tho American hidiait is rapidly proving '
Shis claim to the name by which he goes. The pedestrians whol hilvt
run against him must confess his is a lDEAI-rooT, when they ireiImember
what his speed has cost them. His success proves to usl, however
much we should like to blink the fact, the superiority in race of t ih
savage. Even our best peds have succumbed, and nMILS has been u0
pumped as to become wind-iMnILs.
 THEi INDIAN PRIZE', MONETY.-The soldiers who served in Indlian ],
 so long ago given up all expectation of getting their prize moin',
 that it should really be called surprise money." As it ir, many whli
 were in Lucknow at the time of the mutiny are not living to bo in
 luck now.
 THE; LATEST FROM TIIE CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINIit S. (110e of Lor
 NoRnMANnY'S nominees has translated Consule P'l1 'nrii,," as "when
 SIR CHARLES WooD was at the India office."
 JUSTIFIABLE IHOIICIDE.--Taking Bell's Life.


 Query, Loo,-a corruption of Louirs,--tlo na:Tn or i 'irlllf : oIr )low, I"
 bellow liken cow or ox.-En.


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