JANUARY 25, 1862.]


FUN.


 SONG FOR THE THRONG.
 OE, VERSIFICATION FOR THIIE NATION.
No. III.-PAKINGTON PHILANTHROPY-A BRITISH BIGLOW PAPER.
 EE got some queer notions, down
 e sa home, away yonder,
 As heaven sends the wild things
 for every man's use,
 As in Nateral Hist'ry wouldd be a
 great blunder,
 To say as a partridge is same as a
 goose;
 As hares isn't sheep, we think, ax
 no discernin'--
 WeThey lives at free quarters where-
 ever they stops,
 OBut who ever heer'd of a farmer
 h a-tnrnin'
 HCis flocks out to feed on another
 S man's crops P
 uBu doesn't Sin J.
 SAAKINGTONK say,
 That "them is his property 'zacky like they ?"
 We've got an odd fancy a man aint desarvin'
 Of months o' hard labour for killing' a hare,
 When his wife and his childer at home are nigh starving ,

 When his little bit garden's o'errun with the vermin,
 And the mouths must be fed though his crop should thus fail,
 It do seem uncommonly hard to determine
 What!s the justice of laws as commit him to jail !
 But doesn't SIR J.
 PAKINGTON say,
 That "he statute's too lenient by half in its sway ?"
 We fancy as folks that are fond of their pheasants,
 Thinks more o' preserving' of they than of we,

 Than miss a few birds in the season, you see
 We think, carter all, a poor man's bare existence;
 Compared wi' the hares and the rest o' the game,
 Should put the preserving' clear out in the distance,
 For squire or cotter, man's man ust the same !
 But doesn't Sin3 J.
 PAKINGTON say,
 That "its jargon to talk in that kind of a way "

 We think if preserving' of game never tempted,
 Chaps wouldn't go poachin' (what leads to far worse)
 And we wonder, is spies, as are tempters, exempted,
 (Or them as employs 'em) from treachery's curse
 We think them as wishes the poor man's condition
 To better-and save him from sorrow and sin,
 Of the Game Laws should make in our statutes omission-
 Not propose to cram heavier penalties in!
 But doesn't SIE J.
 PAKINGTON say,
 "Hang"i's not too severe this here poachin' to stay P"
 We fancy when folks wants hard laws for the poacher,
 And provisions more strict of their game to take care,
 Who ax for a right to shoot any encroacher,
 Who seems to be likely to look at a hare;-
 We fancy these folks, without any disguisin',
 Should say they does all for their own sportin' ends,
 Not talk of" the evil what's de-moralizin'
 The people" 'sif they to the people were friends
 But doesn't SIR 3.
 PtAKiNGTON Say
 Its "the harm poachin' does people wakes his dismay ?
 If that isn't jargon-what is jargon, pray ?


 WE see extensively advertised, in connexion with one of the
 metropolitan places of amusement, a certain "ViCronL JULIEN, the
 Flying Man, from Paris every evening." This is qulck locomotion,
 even for flying. What hour in the evening does 21. VICTOe JULIEN
 take wing so as to arrive punctually in London by the time lie is
 wanted?


 PROVERBIAL FOLLY.
 BY TAT'IN i lAN lillu i FUl I'r:E .
 -.- -- ,, EA' me, my friend. Trust not to
 -s en lv apperlarances; for tllv :'-r
 -l :-.. -", deceitful. A fhrthling, of' lu' ite xw
 mintage--how like is it to ia alf-
 sovereign ?
 SI ..,.. that is made, is nm111 inl

 -fiill. Ici i tt' 4 1 litre i.;r :t, irtilli t
 I-~y 'kI,,'i' p r making; :,nd llhore is wrapping'
 ilp 'f parcels rIcsrved c\ven for the
 Whoso travelleth by the 'bus, let
 .; hint havo ia'pmee ,cOr l ii I's l ', ; for
 lie that b chanuigeli sii v -'r l\ i ,ll 'ltis-
 .cad, ofun chungetli it for lbast, it.tl l
 When an s itbrav-, ido w nlltot look
 % ". for rain? And shalill lthlere i a dull
 --- season without the disportling tof 1in
 EIuIIa in the columns 11' It 'I'i(te s :
 Happy is ho who wrote Proverbial Philosophy." Flt' his edlitions
have reached millions, and moreover, a kind Providencie ltitli eiinsurI'd
him against brain-fever, inasmuch as it lha.lt not given unto himn that
upon which that insidious disease might seize.


 WHAT IS IT-ABOUT?
 n. E. ABoUT nas produced a play which lhas boon hissed oin lih
stage, while its author was literally hissed off it. The dissentitit
sibilants were the students of the Quartier Latin, deeply road, w\\
suppose, in hiss-tory. They manage these things very woll in FIraict' ;
but ME. TOM TIDDLER would be rather surprised if, ifter the failure of
one of his original adaptations, the members of Trinity Colligo, Cuii-
bridge, were to assemble in a body for tlh purpose of yelling under
his windows. Probably Mn. TIDULEIw, with that marvellous talent i
which is entirely his own, would adapt hrimsolf to circumstances, inldl
stigmatize the affair as an hootri proceeding, unparalleled in our hiss-
trionic annals.

 LONG ]OW v. li,''.
 WE have seen a paragr:tph which stBti's thal t M i. lhfI \ (iulery
SELL'EM), at Birr, ired at tlie head of a duck, and knuckeld it oll' wii it
a rifle bullet it a distance over a hundred yardtl. W\ SuspieeiI i' th
supposed duck was examined by a compeltril, persmu, it woutlil Iurn
out to be one of the tribe of canards, which reach this country in
large flights at that inclement season (Ibr tih' papers) when P'rliament
is not sitting.

 WANTED, SOME COOD ACTIrVE LADs.-A Federal Volunteer hls
written home to recommend the young ladies to delay their choice of'
husbands till the return of the army, as they can thon pick lup
spouses who can "cook, wash, iron, do the gIoncral ]IhouowOrk, wvorlk
in the garden, or run errands for their wives." However, we rmay
doubt their having acquired the first-mentioned accomiplishlmiunts, the
Yankees have certainly duly qualified in the last one.
 AN IRtsnuMAN's Lorme.--Tho licence of FA]iT ER LAVEITTII tto carry
arms having been revoked, that peppery priest writes li cxpostulatiie,
and tolls Siit ROlERT PLEL that, "in the face of the tlhreatle'i(d
calamity of a famino, priest-hunting should be postponed." And s,,
forsooth, the reason why priest-hunting should be postponed, is the
reason why the priest shooting shouldn't be interfered with.
 A NoosiE rou A NUISANCE.-FATHIER DALY, thle brawling priest of
Galway, lias been prohibited by his Romish bishop from performing
religious duties. The reverend gentleman (sic in the newspapers)
says, "IIe'll ble hnged if he'll be suspended." If the word "suIH-
pond" as applied to him could be made to mean the same thing as
"hang," all we can say is, we think it a haltoration for tih better.
 I KNOW A BANK."-After the discovery of the serious defralra-
tions at the Bilstoi Savings Bank-and in consequenco of the fraud
having been committed by the clergyman of tihe pluo---ithe person
on whonm the poor have a right to place tlieir chili r(lialnco--it it
likely that poor depositors will be driven frinom pillar to post,--that is,
from the IPillars of t e Church to the Post Offico Savings Banks.
 The Mlorniyt. I'ost advocates '" Recreations for the Working
 Classes." An omploydo at that establishment informs us that tlhe
proprietors, nevertheless, expect every man to stick to his 1'ost.


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