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Ms. POTTS, having imprudently attempted to me- and compelled to make a precipitate
 diate, is attacked by the landlady, retreat,


having suffered severely in
 the action.


Mn. POTTS, disgusted with quiet streets,
 takes apartments in a crowded thorough-
 fare. He meets with much annoyance
 from the ungentlemanly conduct of the
 men on PICKFOKD'S vans


 His fellow-lodgers are
Ms. BRASSWORKS, a musical amateur,who, in order Ms. HA.RDU, apoetical genius, who finds
 to acquire proficiency on his instrument, rises the muse most propitious under the
 every morning at four to practise; and influence of gin and water.


Mn. BReASWOnKS having arranged the King of the Cannibal Islands"
 as a quartette for trombone, ophicleide, double bass, and drums, invites
 some musical friends to try the effect.


 A MAY MELODY.
STOLEN FROM MOOsE BY A SWELL MOBSMAN.
 THERE is not in the whole year a month
 that's so sweet
 As that month when at Exeter Hall peo-
 ple meet!
 Oh, what pockets for feeling at the hour
 to depart,
 And what things of great valley to fall
 to my art!
 Yet it is not that nature has shed o'er the
 scene
 A plenty of ochre* and plenty of green;
 'Tis not nature, but art, that enriches
 me thus,
 'Tis the dressing religious and taking the
 'bus I!


 Tnn BRITISH LroN.-Tt is all very well to
talk of rousing the British Lion, but it has
taken an uncommon time to get up four of
them in Trafalgar-square. From year to
year there stands each pedestal for a lion to
lie on, but there's no lion to lie on it. It is
whispered that SIR EDWIN has not even
designed the amimals, but we hope that the
originator of the report is a lyin"' too.
 To TEACH YOUR CHILD TO STAND ALONE.
-Get somebody to give your child a penny,
then borrow the coin. Your child will be
quite helpless, and will be compelled, most
likely against its inclination, to stand a
loan.
 To MAKE A STIFF GLASS OF GROG-.Put
a teaspoonful of whisky into a tumbler of
hot water; sweeten to palate, and add a
quarter of a pound of starch. This will
stiffen your grog nicely.


 Money.
 t The pickpockets, dressed in sables and
white ties, frequent the Islington omnibuses
at the time of the May Meetings, and reap
a fine harvest.


"AW, POLLYI I DU WISH AS THEE WUR LOCKED INS MY ARMS, AN' THE KAY
 LOST I"


 DIRECTIONS FOR VISITING THE
 ROYAL ACADEMY.
 TAKE with you a ladder, a good tele-
scope, two good-sized tapers, and a box of
matches; a ticket of entrance is a mere
formal matter: you can offer to toss with
the door-keeper. The following will be the
pictures of the year worthy of notice:-
Portrait of FRANCATELLI .. COOKE.
CALIBAN-" Neither fish
 nor fowl nor good red" HEnRErG.
Portrait of MR. MEADow LEE.
Tasting Wine................ COOPER.
Eye Water ................... LAtSEnE.
Girl with a cold (a com-
 panion to the Hoarse
 Fair)................... RosA BONEU..
In the Highlands ............ HAST.
A Portrait of DAY, the
 jockey ....................... KNIG T.
The Black Guard (com-
 panion to the Bruns-
 wicker) ..................... MILLATS.
A Sum in division............ CnESSWELL.
Study of a Postage Stamp
 (companion to Study of
 a Head).................... JONES.
A Man of Caste .............. DYE.
LADY FonTn ................ FRITn.
Summer ....................... ETTY.
The Witch Daughter......... WATsoN.
The Canon (of St. Paul's) DEANE.
 You can also spend some time in seeing
 ROBERTS'S Interiors, which are always cool
 and pleasant to the eye. He produces a
 wonderful effect with his lights. But the
 above is, perhaps, enough for one visit.

 WHERE does one hear the nearest ap-
proach to the fabled Music of the Spheres ?-
At the opera, where one hears the Voices
of the Stars."
 WaY is MR. HEPWORTH DIXON like the
man who steals half a hog?-Because he
takes the side of BAcoN.
 WHERE ought you to sail in a barque ?-
To the Isle of Dogs.


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