“NOT EXACTLY.”
“Have you been much at sea?”
“Why no, not exactly; but my brother married an admiral’s daughter!”
“Were you ever abroad?”
“No, not exactly; but my mother’s maiden name was ‘French.’”
FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER.
[A letter has found its way into our box, which was evidently intended for the Parisian Courrier des Dames; but as the month is so far advanced, we are fearful that the communication will be too late for the purposes of that fashionable journal. We have therefore with unparalleled liberality inserted it in PUNCH, and thus conferred an immortality on an ephemera! It is worthy of remark that the writer adopts the style of our foreign fashionable correspondents, who invariably introduce as much English as French into their communications.]
Rue de Dyotte,
Derrière les Slommes à Saint Gilles.