of
London. They proceed to the spot in the _Maria Wood_, and the one
who secures the interesting saurian is allowed to eat all the green
fat. With you we hope devoutly that the time is far distant when the
desecrating hand of a Socialistic Government will be allowed to lay a
finger on these ancient civic customs. No. The Fishmongers' Company do
not sell fish. Their motto is, _Edo, non vendo_.

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ACTON EST.--_The Cornhill Magazine_ for this month has an interesting
article on "Actors and Actresses in Westminster Abbey," not seen there
much when alive, but there for good after their decease. It is stated
of Mrs. BARRY that she was not interred in the Abbey, as has been,
it appears, generally supposed, but found her resting-place at Acton.
Odd, that when she had ceased to act, she should be sent to Act-on!

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[Illustration: "TAKE CARE OF THE PENCE, AND THE POUNDS," &c.

_Muriel._ "MAMMA, WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THE CARRIAGE OUT FOR SO LATE?
WHERE _ARE_ YOU GOING?"

_Mrs. Goldie._ "NOW, MURIEL, YOU KNOW HOW YOUR FATHER KEEPS WORRYING
ABOUT EXTRAVAGANCE, AND OF COURSE I MUST SET AN EXAMPLE. SO I'M GOING
TO THE PUBLIC LIBRARY TO SEE THE EVENING PAPER!"]

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THE CRY OF THE CUE-IST. (_To the Champion, by a Discouraged
Competitor._)

Break, break, break,
On the smooth green board, O JOHN!
And I would civil words could utter
My thoughts, as the game goes on!

O well for the three-figure runs
You have made since we opened play!
O ill for my nine thousand start,
Which you're lessening day by day!

And the marvellous shots go on
To your score, which is mounting still!
But O for a touch of that wondrous hand,
And a slice of that startling skill!

Break, break, break!
_There's_ a shot! Great Scott! O, see!
What tender grace! And if once ahead
You will never "come back" to me!

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"EPSOM SPRING MEETING."--In former times this used to be a
fashionable rendezvous for invalids who went there to drink
the beneficial waters of the Epsom Spring. Now there is not
much water taken at these Spring Meetings; and what water is
taken is not "an unmixed good."

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A LESSON IN "BOOK-KEEPING."--Never lend one.

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AFTER THE