Intelligence from (and at) Hamburg.—"Mr. G." was unable to go to the Zoo at feeding-time. He was conspicuous by his absence, as all the other lions were there.
New and Appropriate Name for the After-dinner Crumb-and-fragment Basket.—"The Morsel-eum."
'ARRY ON THE SEASON.
Dear Charlie,—The pypers all tell us the Season is now at its 'ight;
Don't mean one o' Thomson's, my pippin. That josser is now out of dyte.
When I was a bit of a kiddie, dad 'ad a old brown-covered book
Into wich now and then, on a Sunday, 'e thought it the right thing to look.
Such sloppy saloop, my dear Charlie, "embellished" with rummy old cuts,