A Bank Note.—The most likely time for obtaining payment "in hard cash," is when the Money Market "hardens a little," as was the case, so The Times Money Article informed us, last Friday.
AN EARLY PURITAN.
Bobby (who sees his Mamma in Evening Dress for the first time, and doesn't like it). "I'll write and tell Papa!"
"A STIFF JOB."
Grand Old Ploughman sings:—
Speed the Plough! Ah, that's all mighty fine,