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 'CUTE PERCEPTION.
 First Cad:-" MINORIES, MARN ?"
 Second Cad :-" IHOUNDSDITC, MARM ?"
 Third Cad (who evidently knows his customer) :-" VITECHAPEL, MARM "



 TAR! TAR! THE PRESENT SESSION.
 SIlP ahoy! Here, steady, ila. EDITOR, while I overhaul my log. Mn. DISRAELt addressed the following letter to the Conservative
There, I've overhauled it, and it's all over. I want to put you in the members:-
way of a good riddle in the nautical style, so look here: What trade "Hughenden Manor, January 7, 1862.
would furnish good floating vessels ? You give that up ?-Well, the "Sis,--The meeting of Parliament being fixed for Thursday, the 6th of
cork-cutters. Here's another: How should a Cork cutter be manned ? February, I request the favour of your attendance in the House of Commons on
That's simple enough; with a Cork's crew. Against: Where should a that day, when business of importance will probably be brought forward, which
at's simple enoug; wih a Cork's crew. Again: W oe should a yo ilL hve thegoodnea to impede by talking and otherwise.--I have the honour, etc.,
Cork's crew in a Cork cutter sail to P-Mount Corkasus. I ain't much l e thegoodness to impede by talkngand e havethehoour,etc.,
lp in joggraffy. Look here: What should they do to a Cork cutter "B.DISRIUL"
before she starts ?-Caulk her. I shan't draw any more on this cork, The sentence in italics has been omitted by our contemporaries,
as I'm just going to attend the sail of a small boat, which looks more but it will be seen in the course of the session whether the spirit of
like a corkle shell.-Yours ever, CORKSWAIN. the letter has not been destroyed by leaving it out.
 Boarding House.
 P.S. Oh! I say, one more: Why is a Scotchman in India like
NELsoN's old ship, the Victory, at Trafalgar ?-Because he's a man A NURSERY RHYME FOR THE IRISH "BOYS."
aLva'.* (See PArragraph, in the Daily Papers.)

 IN VERDURE CLAD. Ilarum scarum,
 THE fashionable green tarlatane and the bright-leaved wreaths so MULHALAN MARUM,
generally worn have been proved to contain large quantities of arsenic. Rode his horse down St. Cance's steps at Kilkenny;
\e believe the fair sex-proverbially tender-would do what is fair, Had the horse slipped at all,
even if we did not tender our advice. Nevertheless we hope in future He had got such a fall,
all "good women and true" will renounce the deadly hue for a less As would surely have dashed out his brains (if he'd any).
noxious colour. Hereafter, when a young lady is asked if she have a
soft heart and kindly sympathies, her best reply will be, Do you see
anything green about me ?" PAUSE FOR A REPLY.
 DEAR FUN,-Why is a respectable practitioner with a green umbrella
 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.-We understand that the two ships which like an Ojibeway in a decline P-Because he's a-- 1 forget exactly
have spent so many weeks in showing each other their teeth have what, but the answer I know begins with Because, and the whole
been re-christened the Tusk-arora and the Gnash-ville. thing is good.-Yours truly, RIDDLE M'REE.


 London: Printed and Published (for the Proprietors) by CHARLES WHYTE, at the Office, 80, Fleet Street, E.C.-Saturday, February 15, 1862.


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