RUSTY CUSS IN URBE.

P.S.--Pantheon means a place where all the gods are. I know Greek.

The Pantheon in Regent Street I find is now a wine merchant's. Is

England exclusively devoted to Bacchus, and is temperance a heresy?

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[Illustration: ON THE NINTH.

_Freddy._ "And do they have a new Lord Mayor every year, mummie?"

_Mother._ "Yes, dear."

_Freddy._ "Then what do they do with the old Lord Mayors when they've

done with 'em?"]

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[Illustration: _Clerk._ "Lady been here this morning, sir, complaining

about some goods we sent her." _Employer._ "Who was she?" _Clerk._ "I

quite forgot to ask her name, sir, but she's a little woman--_with a

full-sized tongue_!"]

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[Illustration: _Little Boldwig_ (_he had been dining with his Company,

and had let himself in with his latchkey--to gigantic stranger he finds

in his hall_). "Come on. I'll fight you!" (_Furiously._) "Put your

shtick down!!"

[_But his imaginary foe was only the new umbrella-stand_--_a present

from Mrs. B.!_

]

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[Illustration: MAKING THE MOST OF IT]

A SHOCKING THING TO THINK OF!--A galvanic battery.

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"CASH ADVANCES."--Courting a rich widow.

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