Mum's the Word!

[Mr. CHAMBERLAIN presided lately at a Deaf-and-Dumb Meeting.]

JOSEPH reflecteth:—

Deaf-mutes make the best audience, I see;

They gave me no rude flood of gibes to stem.

True, they were deaf, and so could not hear me,

But they were dumb, so I could not hear them!


MADAME ROLAND RE-EDITED (from a sham-Japanese point of view).—O LIBERTY! what strange (decorative) things are done in thy name!