They're not yet entirely paid for!

Now till next year, all of us cry,

We'll say (for a fee) what we're bidden.

Vacation is over, is over, hurrah!

And all past sorrow is hidden.


The Pickwickian Examination Paper.—Pickwickian students are well to the front. The first answer to our question in last week's number was sent from Maidstone. Fitting that it should come from Dickens's favourite county, Kent. Yes. The only mention of champagne in Pickwick is when Mr. Tupman drank a bottle of it after an exhilarating quadrille.


DAMON OUT OF DATE.

Here is the lovely summer going by,