A "Shakspearian Student" wants to know "if, when Richard the Third calls out 'A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!' he is not alluding to the Night-Mare from which he is only just recovering." [Can't say. Highly probable. So like Shakspeare.—Ed.]
Dear Mr. P.,—I believe you do not know that Mrs. R. recently visited Rome. She tells me that she thinks it an excellent thing that the Tontine Marshes have been planted with Apocalypses.
THE CITY HORSE.
(A Legend of the "Coming Ninth.")
"You must let me have him on the day I have specified," said the military-looking man, with an air of determination.
"And you order this, Sir, after learning his history?" replied the well-educated cabman. "You know that he has been in a circus?"
"I do; it is one of his greatest qualifications. A circus, I think you said, where there was a brass band?"