t, but I'll agree to settle your hotel bill if
you'll part with it. Not that I think it's worth it, but you need to be
helped somehow right away.'

I jumped at the chance, and thanked my friend heartily. He asked if I
would please go and send the landlord to him, and I retired to perform
that errand.

I was punctual to my appointment in the evening, and listened to the
project my editorial angel had in view; a plan by which he proposed to
inflict a lesson on the negligent Tyrians, and at the same time
replenish my purse. He explained to me the part I was to perform in this
enterprise, and I found I could enter heartily into the spirit of it. We
shook hands in the best of humors, and parted that evening understanding
each other perfectly.

III.--HE MAKES A HIT IN TYRE.

The next day, the entire jobbing facilities of the _Times_ office were
brought into requisition, and toward evening a mammoth bill was posted
around the town, which read as follows:--

MONS. BELITZ'S
CELEBRATED AND MAGNIFICENT EXHIBITION,
THE GREAT TRAVELING HUMBURG!
The most wonderful entertainment, whether
CAININE, PRISTINE, OR QUININE,
ever brought before the astonished Public's visual organs!!!

* * * * *

The _avant courier_ of this monster troupe has the honor of
announcing to the ladies and gentlemen of Tyre, that Mons. BELITZ,
accompanied by his entire retinue of attaches and supes, Female
Dancers and Dogs, Operatic Vocalists and Vixens, Royal Musicians and
Monsters, Bengal Tigers and Time-servers, Magicians and Madmen,
Flying Birds, Swimming Fishes, Walking Cats and Dogs, Crawling
Reptiles, and various other extraordinary and impossible
arrangements, the like of which never before appeared in Bog county,
until the arrival of the present occasion, to wit:--

AT GRECIAN HALL, TYRE,

On Saturday Evening, December 22, 1859.

* * * * *

---> LOOK AT THE ARRAY OF TALENT! <---

* * * * *

MONS. BELITZ,
the celebrated Magician from Egypt, performer general to

THE GRAND FOO FOO,
and professor of the Black Art to all the crowned heads of the
Cannibal Islands and Ham Sandwichlands!!

MADEMOISELLE HELIOTROPE,
the charming Danseuse from all the city theatres, but most recently
from the Imperial _Deutscher Yolks Garten_, Liverpool, Ir