WITH KIND REGARDS.

"With kind regards"--'tis good to see your writing

Even on meagre correspondence-cards,

But would more matter you had been inditing

With kind regards!

Below you add that you are "mine sincerely,"

I wonder if in those two words you wrote

A sweet confession that you care--or merely

The usual ending to a friendly note?

I wonder if that week you still remember,

The shooting lunches and round games of cards,

Our walks and talks that wonderful September--

I wonder what you meant by "kind regards"!

With kind regards, and eyes that, reading, soften

I read your note, most blessed among cards,

And think of you--I dare not say _how_ often--

With kind regards.

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APPROPRIATE.--_The Command of the Sea_, by WILKINSON SHAW. The author

will be hereafter known as "SEA-SHAW."

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[Illustration: LOVE'S LABOUR =NOT= LOST.

_Mr Punch._ "WELL, SIR, AND WHAT FOUND YOU IN MUSCOVY?"

_Prince of Wales_ (_quoting Shakspeare_). "'NOTHING BUT PEACE, AND

GENTLE VISITATION'!"]

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[Illustration

_Desperate Position of Messrs. Duffer and Phunk, who are rival

aspirants for the hand of Miss Di._

_Miss Di_ (_unable to get her Horse to face the water as a jump_).

"OH, DO PLEASE, ONE OF YOU, JUST TRY IF THAT PLACE IS FORDABLE!"

[_N.B.--Said "Place" is reported to be a good twelve feet deep

BEFORE you come to the mud._

]

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