A HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY.
(Hounds going from Covert to Covert.)
Master Jack (to M.F.H.). "I say, you know, awful nuisance the way these Women follow a Fellow over everything! Makes a Man have to be so beastly careful what he Jumps, don't you know!"
THE NEW YEAR'S DAY DREAM.
A Tennysonian Fragment from the Popular Pantomime of "Harlequin Harcourt, the Sleeping Beauty, and the Financial Fairy Prince."
["The Revenue Returns," says the Daily News, "for the expired three quarters of the financial year show that a sum of close upon £62,000,000 has been paid into the Exchequer. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's estimated revenue for the whole year was a little over £94,000,000. This is regarded as an indication of the revival of trade, and the promise of a substantial surplus for the next Budget.">[
The Arrival.
All blessèd boons, though coming late,