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[DECEMIBER 28, 1861.


 ANJ OLD HAANiD.

IlJrteSS:-" On! MR. TOMTIT, IIOW VERY GOOD OF YOU TO COME SO EARLY. CAN I INTRODUCE YOU TO ANY ONE!
lion. Mr. To [mit:-No, THANK YAW, NOT JUST YET. I SHOULD JUST LIKE TO SEE THEM-AW-TAKE THEYAW GALLOPS FIRST."


 ALMANACK AND DIARY.
 METEORONICALT AND ASTREORILLOGICAL NOTICES.
The dog star (during this month) is filled with Skye terriers, which bodes
 no good to barques at sea.

 DECEMBER.

 22 S Lectures on Faith; meeting of creditors.
 23 M Flea Hunt in the bod of the Thames.
 24 Tu Get up clean linen and appetite for to-morrow.
 25 W Christmas Day. A Holly-day. The Editor wishes every one
 a merry Christmas and many of 'em.
 26 TH Boxing Day. Great day for MIt. MILLS. Christmas boxes
 given atprivate houses ; boxes on the ears at public houses;
 private boxes taken at theatres. General joy. Everyone
 buys FUN, and shows it to every one else. All laugh.
 27 F Bluecoat boys form a little blue-coaterie, and are taken to
 the Crystal Palace to hear a grand fantasia by MR. BRIGHT
 on the piano, accompanied by MR. DISTIN on the shoe horn.
 28 S Muffin Man's Festival and flourish of Crumpets.
 CHRISTMAS GAMES.
 HIDn AND SEEK.-Seek for somebody less than yourself, and (if
you can) hide him.
 JACOB.-Let some one pretend to be JAcoB. Blind and tie him in
a chair; all the players (the more the merrier) will dance round
in a ring, each hitting him on the head with a bootjack or fire shovel;
if he guesses who gives the hit, the hitter then becomes JACOB.
 CIHRISTMAS DANCES.
 I1ini.AuNo FrLINc.-In order to get up this exhilarating dance, pur-
 chase a small quantity of strong Scotch snuff; choose somebody for a


partner; advance; throw contents of snuffbox in your partner's eyes;
he will probably dance for some considerable time.
 DOUBLE SHUFFLE.-Choose partners ; take apack of cards; shuffle;
put cards on table; shuffle again. This is one of the most simple of
our national dances.


 EVERYBODY is writing patriotic songs just now. We defy the
LAUREATE to say anything more to the point than, in as few words
as, the following:-
 If the outrage on the Trent
 By the Federals was meant,
 Oh, won't we just walk into
 Them-and their San Jacinto.


 FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT.-A practised rifleman first takes a
long sight at his target, and then hits it, thus adding injury to insult.
 WHY is a good tempered horse like a bad tempered man ?-Because
it's always willing to take a fence.
 A PROVERB RE-SIIAPED.-There is a "skeleton" in every lady's
 dress.


 ** In consequence of the large circulation of Fux, we are compelled to
go to press many days before the date of publication. Our last number
was printed before we were aware of the illness of the lamented PRINCE
CoNsolT ;-hence our apparent neglect in not observing the usual mark
of respect to his memory.


Loondon: Printedl and IPubh hd ('or .te Prop:ictr.) by CIHALES WHYTE, at the Office, 80, Fleet Street, E.C.-Saturday, December 23, 131.


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