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The Artist:-" Lon! BLESS YER, MIu3. FOG AINT OF NO CONSEQUENCE. YOU'LL MAKE A SWEET PICTER, MIM. YOUR'N IS ONE OF THEM
 INTERESTING FACES WOT WANTS TO BE A LITTLE SUBDOOED!"


 OUR STUDY TABLE.
 CHRISTMAS BOOKS.
 OUn study table is covered with several little productions peculiarly
adapted to this festive time of year. First in order we may notice the
" Butcher's Book:" this small work is very neatly got up, and deserves
great credit; it is bound in characteristic vermilion and emblazoned
with letters of gold. The Baker's Book" is also an exquisite manual,
containing some startling accounts about the yeast, and a short notice
of the great roll left at Battle Abbey, but never eaten. We trust the
author will find his work remunerative. The Boy's Own Book" for the
past year shows what vast improvement MASTERS TOMMYR and HARRY
have made in their studies; it is embellished with handsome drawings
upon their father's purse, and announces that the pupils will meet again
on the fifteenth of January. "Poetry," an old friend with a new face,
appears in MB. E. L. BLANCHARD'S marvellous paraphrase of the
House that Jack Built, which can be read as a song of sixpence,"
(that being the rate of exchange with the boxkeeper), by any visitor
to Drury Lane during the run of the pantomime. If you want some-
thing short and sweet, look in at MESSRS. BELL and DALDY'S, and pur-
c:."se (unless neither of the firm or their assistants are looking, in
which caso outlay would be superfluous) certain clever poems by
E.S.C. Finally, make good literary resolutions for the new year, and
make yourself a present of all the back numbers of FUN, with the
firm and unalterable determination to become a constant reader of, and
a six-montlis-in-advance-regular-subscriber to, that inestimable and
ably-conducted journal. So shall your present be happy, and your
future blissful.


 CovRIBTni-ED TY MONSIEUR M-NT-L-nl-RT.-In what respect does a
paint-pot differ from a Frenchman ?-One is a galli-pot, the other is a
Galli-can.


 POLICE INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.
 THE most marvellous police intelligence is that displayed by Di.
BoRaASE CHILDs, medical attendant to the force, who appears just to
have discovered that the police dress is unhandsome, unwholesome,
and unserviceable. Considering the length of time he has held the
appointment, we think he might have "taken up" this subject before,
but at least, though late, it is a "move on" in the right direction.
The Commissioners ought to keep an eye on DR. CHILDS for
"uttering bad language," for one of his sentences is in a state of
inebriation, and certainly wants "seeing home," as the. mildest form
of police attention. He says, "The hat now worn fulfils no indication
which the covering for the head of men so exposed requires!" What
is indication which the covering requires ? And how is the hat to
fulfil the indication, when indicated?

 SAYINGS BY OUR SAGE IN THE STREETS.
 MISFORTUNES never come single. If there are two perambulators
within two miles of each other, the servant girls are sure to get
together, and push on their "infernal machines" side by side, chatting
all the while so earnestly as to be utterly ignorant that of "toe and
" wheel" makes woe."
 Misery brings out our real friends in bright relief. In a fog there
is no such shining character as the link-boy.

 HOW TO STUDY GEOLOGY WITH HUGH-MILLERTY.
 Mamma to Sweet Babe:-" Oh, you little cherub."
 Brute of a Husband:-" Right you are, my dear; for it continually
doth cry."

 WirH is a man clearing a hedge in a single jump like a man snoring ?
-Because he does it in his leap.


London : Printed and Pblishlied (for the 2ropriotors) by CHARLES WHYTE, at the Office, 80, Fleet Street, E.C.-Saturday, January 1S, 1862.


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