"The Birth of a Fluence" would, of course, be more instructive still were there any paper that at all corresponded to the fantastic and incredible organ here illustrated. But of course a sheet that during the progress of an anxious war so consistently belittled its country and aspersed its rulers would be impossible. Still, enough verisimilitude remains to make an amusing half-hour.


Conscientious married M.P. (WHO UNFORTUNATELY TALKS IN HIS SLEEP) GAGGING HIMSELF BEFORE RETIRING TO BED AFTER SECRET SESSION.


NURSERY RHYMES OF LONDON TOWN.

IX.—The Poultry and the Borough.

The Fox ran to London

Starving for his dinner;

There he met the Weasel