A Vendor (persuasively). The kerrect lengwidge of hevery flower that blows—one penny!
"Allowed to Starve."—Mr. Punch begs to acknowledge contribution from "Paisley" to "The Light Brigade Fund," which has been forwarded to the Editor of the St. James's Gazette, who has charge of this Fund.
THE AUTOCRAT.
"Here is my last request and legacy! After we are executed, and while the impression of this epilogue of all these horrors is still fresh in the minds of the people, do your utmost to make this new example of the unparalleled cruelty of Russian despotism known to the whole world.... This is a great task well worth accomplishing; and if you succeed, the losses we suffered in that terrible butchery will be redeemed."—From the last letter, written just before his execution, of Nicholas Zotoff, one of the victims of the Yakoutsk massacre.
Let it be known! Poor soul, of unshaken trust,
So done to death in the gloom of the Kara waste,