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 "THESE SHIPS CARRY EXPERIENCED SURGEONS."
 Sai0or:- "TE BOS'N HAS FALLEN FROM ALOFT, SIR, AND THE MATE THINKS HIS BACK'S BROKE."
 Ship'S Surgeon :-" THAT MAN IS CONTINUALLY BORING ONE. JUST YOU TELL MiR. SMITH TO GIVE HIM A DOSE OF SALTS, AND I
 SIHALL SEE HIM THE FIRST MOMENT I CAN CONVENIENTLY SPARE."


 So you say to FITZROY,
 "COME, LET US BE HAPPY TOGETHER." "I believe you, my boy'!"
 (A. BARO-METRICAL BALLAD.) And out of all danger together,
 PROBABLE. Keep your lives.and your vessels that day.
 To-Morrow. Day after To-Morrow. All folks on excursions who go out at all,
N. Britain, E. to N., moderate. W. to N., cloudy. And who organize picnics in June,
Ireland, N. to E., line. N.N.W., misty. Can arrange for their parties of pleasure to fall
E. Coast, N.N.E., fresh. S.W., foggy. On days such as none can impugn.
S. England, N.E. to S.E., fine. W., drizzly. They have only to peep at the paper,
 We may now give a hint of the weather, And see what is fixed for that day,
 For where there's a wire there's a way And they then can decide, if they don't want to ride,
 To foretell, when we go out together, That walk home in light dresses they may.
 The state of the air on that day., No rain can ooze,
 We know to get wet is unpleasant, Through the thinnest of shoes,
 Umbrellas get lost we must own, If they only look out for the weather,
 But none need again be surprised by the rain That's shown to be due on that day.
 Which three days in advance is foreshown. New ready, in Magenta cloth,
 Young folks nor old, Now ready, in Magenta cloth
 Needn't catch cold,' ASES for BINDING the FIRST VOLUME of FUN.
 If they only look out for the weather, Price is. Od.
 Foretold in the paper each day. On the 15th will be published,
 A gale, west-sou'-west, the Atlantic's IHE TITLE, PREFACE, and INDEX to the FIRST
 Dispatched on its way to our shore, VOLUME of FUN, beautifully Designed and Engraved, forming an Extra Number.
 At Penzance, where they well watch its antics, Price One Penny.
 Then falls the barometer lower.
 Up, up with the storm-signal northward, On the 15th, handsomely bound in Magenta cloth, price 4s. 6d.,
 And hoist up the cone over drum, THE FIRST VOL UME of FUN; Containing nearly
 Thus seamen you know that a gale's going to blow, Three Hundred Comic Engravings by celebrated Artists, and Humourous Articles by the
 And the quarter from which it will come. most Pioplar Writers. LONDON EO, FLEET S TEET.

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