the land of the tourist, and
promptly go abroad.

A subject of deep domestic importance will be discussed in the columns
devoted to correspondence in the daily papers during the Silly Season.

A new Author will be discovered, and spring into great popularity with
the Publishers, if not with the Public.

Out of every hundred novels, ten per cent. will be absorbed by the
London Libraries, and the remainder carted off to the "Circulating Book
Emporiums" at the seaside.

A new Magazine will be started, to supply a want hitherto unsuspected.

Someone will write his experiences, and expect someone else to
read them.

The children (periodically) will return to school after the holidays,
and "men" will go to Oxford and Cambridge, as occasion requires.

Calls to the Bar by the Benchers of the Inns of Court will add
materially to the numbers of the Unemployed.

Several social failures will go to the Colonies, and (like a bad
shilling) return again.

Professor JONES will call black white, while Professor ROBINSON
insists that it is grey.

There will be bags on the moors, and sales at the poulterers'.

The Christmas Numbers will be prepared in May and published in October.

The Divorce Court will be open for the Season, and the Season will amply
avail itself of the opportunity.

The year will pass in less than no time, and the Yule-tide greetings
will be heard, as it were, shortly after Easter.

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Illustration: Going with the Times.

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SUBJECT FOR FANCY PICTURE.--Fined five shillings for swearing. A bench
of Magisterial Salmon from the River Tees, after considerable
consultation, deciding that they cannot pass over the Dinsdale Dam, but
admitted that it was quite allowable for a ladylike Salmon to say to the
river, "O you Tees!"

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"THE _PRESENT_ TIMES."--Christmas and New Year.

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