FUlT.


[MARCH 15, 1862.


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 ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER.

Mr. Thomas Spriggins to Waiter:-" ARE YOU THE GENTLEMAN I ORDERED MY CHOP OFF OF?"
Waiter (withfeeling) :-"YES, MY LORD; IT WILL BE HUP DIRECTLY."


 OUR PRIZE ESSAYS.
No. 12.-BY MR. O-V-NT-Y P-TM-RE.
 WHEN MRS. VAUGvHAN came to tea,
 Our maid, JEMIMA ANN,
 Had asked permission to go out
 Walking, with her young man.
 O purple flush of maiden love
 That reddened her face! Before
 Our window, standing at the gate,
 Her faithful swain she sore !
 O nestling sense of matron care,
 With dove-like folded wings,
 That thrilled my bosom as I said,
 First take away the things!"
 The hissing urn was soon removed
 The buttered toast was done,
 When Mas. VAUGIIAN asked ifI
 Contributed to FUN?
 She said she read it every week,
 And still it made her laugh.
 (Her dress was one of moire-antique;
 She wore a scarlet scaugh.)
 I blushed, her eyes went kindling up
 Just like my own papa's,
 Or like the sudden flare of fire,
 Or the escape of gas.
 More comforts in concealment brood
 Than blatant wordlings kno ;
 Yet, when the question was renewed,
 I answered, Well, T do!"
 Then she: I thought as much, my dear;
 Amid domestic toil
 I still retain perceptions of
 Felicity in style!


 Of motherhood, its anxious fears,
 "Its hopes that kindle joy,
 Its yearnings for the crowing child,
 Whether a girl or boy-
 Of these should serious poets sing,
 Around a clean swept hearth;
 Yet, if they aim to raise a smile,
 By inoffensive mirth,
 With passionate quiddits curling round,
 "Like streams that seaward run,
 "Their wit cannot be better placed
 Than in the page of.FUN."


 "THE PUBLIC GOOD SHOULD BE THE PUBLIC CARE."
 LoRD RANELAGH, by his determination with regard to the Brighton
Review, proves himself to be a noble man, in deeds as well as name.
By cheerfully consenting, for the good of the cause and the public, to
take a lower position in the affair than he might reasonably have ex-
pected to have filled, when he might, had he been so-narrow-minded,
have fomented discontent and schism-perhaps even have frustrated
the project altogether-his lordship shows that he is in one sense,
at least, no general of division." We warmly applaud his lordship's
conduct, and beg to assure him that though he may not command the
volunteers at Brighton on Easter Monday, he will, at any rate, do
that which cannot be less grateful to his feelings,-command the
respect and admiration of every sensible person in the country-and
London, too, for the matter of that-including, of course, FUN's!


 SAYING BT nOV SAGE IN THE STREETS.-Whenever I see a boy in
buttons wheeling a perambulator, I admire to myself how com-
pendiously his employers abridge their housekeeping account-book,
by getting both nurse and footman into one page.
 WoMAN's RoIGHTS.-Man's Wrongs.


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