res, and
moreover, they are not likely to. And so say all of us! And so says,
Yours paragonically, OLD PAR.

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THE HUNDRED-AND-TEN-TONNER!

What is it, that, with labour skilled,
Though taking full three years to build,
The place of better weapons filled?
The Hundred-and-Ten-Tonner!

What was it, though, that had to stoop,
When fired, to putting on a hoop,
Spite this, yet found its muzzle "droop"?
The Hundred-and-Ten-Tonner!

And what, that matters made more hot,
Such curious ammunition got,
It cost L400 a shot?
The Hundred-and-Ten-Tonner!

Yet, much to the tax-payer's bliss,
What, firing such a sum as this.
At eighteen hundred yards would miss?
The Hundred-and-Ten-Tonner!

What is it, spite the First Lord's grace,
That guns of better make and case
At half the cost could well replace?
The Hundred-and-Ten-Tonner!

So, what no more upon the deep
Should JOHN BULL floating useless keep,
But quickly from his Navy sweep?
The Hundred-and-Ten-Tonner!

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PROPOSED TUNNEL BETWEEN ENGLAND AND IRELAND.--An Irishman observed
this would bridge over a lot of difficulties; he begged pardon, he
meant it would Leth-bridge them over.

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[Illustration: THE RIVAL "JARVIES."

J. M-RL-Y. "DRIVE ON, McCARTHY!--IT'S _YOUR_ JOB!"]

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[Illustration: HUNTING SKETCH.

THE LOST SHOE, OR LATE FOR THE MEAT.]

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CANDOUR IN COURT.

[In _Savell v. the Duke of Westminster_, Lord ESHER, Master
of the Bolls, said:--"It was the demands for interrogatories
and discovery of documents and commissions in cases of this
simple nature which had made the practice of the Common Law so
expensive, and caused the public to fly from Courts of Law as
from a pestilence. This oppression must be put down."]

"How does it hap," quoth ESHER, M.R.,
"That Solicitors languish for lack of bread?
That want of cases, as felt by the Bar,
To cases of want has recently led?
Oh, how does it come, and why, and whence,
That men shun the Law as a pestilence?

"It can't be denied that the public tries
To avoid an action by every means;
To a Court it with much reluctance hies,
And to arbitration madly leans.
In fact--I s