TOO PARTICULAR.
"Look here—confound it, Isaacson! You've played me a pretty Trick with this Ancestor you sold me! Showed it to a friend yesterday, and told him it was the Portrait of my Ancestor who came over with William the First; and he said, 'What a funny thing he should have dressed himself in the style of William the Fourth!'"
"Vell that'th nothing. I jeth made a mithtake of a few yearth—Villiam the Firtht and Villiam the Fourth; only hith Great-Grandthon!"
A Contribution to the celebrated Pickwickian Examination Paper.—To Students of Pickwick.—On what (as far as this questioner is aware) solitary occasion is champagne mentioned in Pickwick? who drank a bottle of it? where was it consumed? after what exhilarating performance?—Ed.
"Ta ta'd and Feathered."—"A soft thing that waves" was the description of a feather given by a Lady Correspondent—and therefore a perfectly Fair One—in the Times last Saturday. But surely "a soft thing that waves" is evidently a lady's hand bidding somebody "Ta! ta!"
By Our Own Crammer.—In unsuccessful candidates for Army and Navy Exams. England may have lost some of her best "pluck'd" soldiers and sailors.