Grumpy.

Smelfungus at new customs carps,

He says "New Women" are "Old Cats";

Society soon will be be all "sharps,"

Living in "flats."


Motto for Mr. Hall-Caine.—"The proper study of mankind is (the Isle of) Man!"


THE PIOUS LYNCHER'S CREED.

(Adapted from the Biglow Papers for the benefit of parsonic defenders of the pleasant practice of Lynching.)