Shooting the Landlord.
There will also be a general run of excisemen and tax-gatherers for
their lives. Prizes will be awarded, which the losers will be at liberty
to contest with the conquerors after their distribution.
On Easter Monday, Greenwich Fair will offer its attractions to an
intellectual British public. A great falling off will be observed in
this time-honoured festival. The shows will be found stripped of their
brightest pantomimic and melodramatic ornaments: but Richardson will not
give up the ghost!
Parliamentary business will be suspended for the Easter vacation. Much
curiosity exists as to what statesmen do with themselves on such
occasions. A slender middle-aged gentleman, of Jewish aspect, with an
immense quantity of glossy ringlets, will be seen enjoying three sticks
a-penny in the park on Easter Monday. A much shorter gentleman, wearing
a pasteboard nose, and blowing a penny trumpet, will be robbed of his
handkerchief, in the same locality, whilst getting into a round-about,
in company with an elderly gentleman in plaid inexpressibles and a
_retroussé_ nose. That handkerchief will be found marked J. R. with a
coronet. For once, we decline being definite, and say nothing.
[Illustration:
CAPITAL FIRST OF APRIL JOKE. EMIGRATION AGENTS PERSUADE INTENDING
EMIGRANT THAT THEY ARE SHOWING HIM THE WAY TO AUSTRALIA.
]