Then quoth my companion, "Come to the Blake Collection." Ahem! Into the Black-and-White Room. Ugh!... "That way madness lies." No more to-day, thank you.


Beastly Superiority.—(Konundrum by the "Boxing Kangaroo," on hearing of the "Wrestling Lion.")—What is tamer than a tame lion? Why, of course, a Lion Tamer.


VALENTINE VERSES.

(An Apology accompanying a Purse.)

Do you like it? I wonder! Or think you it's stupid

To send such a commonplace gift as a Purse?

Do you sigh for the tinsel, and gauze, and the Cupid,

And the wonderful sentiments written in verse?