de la Revue_;"
Stick to me, I'll stick to you.
Part with you, sweet? _Pas de danger!_
Not the game of _Brav'_ BOULANGER!

* * * * *

THE CAPTAIN OF THE "PARIS."

Captain SHARP, of the Newhaven steamer, _Paris, you_'re no craven;
Grim and growling was the gale that you from your dead reckoning
bore;
And, but for your brave behaving, she might never have made haven,
But have foundered in mid-Channel, or been wrecked on a lee-shore.
With your paddle-floats unfeathered, wonder was it that you weathered
Such a storm as that of Sunday, which upset our nerves on land,
Though in fire-side comfort tethered. How it blew, and blared,
and blethered!
All your passengers, my Captain, say your pluck and skill were
grand.
Much to men like you is owing, when wild storms around are blowing,
As they seem to have been doing since the opening of the year:
Howling, hailing, sleeting, snowing; but for captains calm and
knowing,
Passage of our angry Channel were indeed a task of fear.
Well, you brought them safely through it, when not every man could do
it,
And your passengers, my Captain, are inspired with gratitude.
Therefore, _Mr. Punch_ thus thanks you, and right readily enranks you,
As a hero on the record of our briny island brood.
Verily the choice of "_Paris_" in this case proved right; and rare is
Fitness between name and nature such as that _you_ illustrate.
Captain SHARP! A proper _nomen_, and it proved a prosperous omen
To your passengers, whom _Punch_ must on their luck congratulate.

* * * * *

ON BOARD THE CHANNEL STEAMER "PARIS" (_Night of Saturday, January 25,
1890_).--"SHARP'S the word!"

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[Illustration: NOTHING LIKE A CHANGE!

_Dr. Cockshure._ "MY GOOD SIR, WHAT _YOU_ WANT IS THOROUGH ALTERATION OF
CLIMATE. THE ONLY THING TO CURE _YOU_ IS A LONG SEA VOYAGE!"

_Patient._ "THAT'S RATHER INCONVENIENT. YOU SEE I'M ONLY JUST HOME FROM
A SEA VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD!"]

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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

The title of the second chapter of _The Days of the Dandies_, in
_Blackwood_, is calculated to excite curiosity,--it is, "Some Great
Beauties, and some Social Celebrities." After reading the article, I
think it would have been styled more correctly, "A Few Great Beauties."
However, it