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,