Ha! I thought so! There go the whole of the water-fowl under that luggage-train.

It is true, the Gardens are ruined, but one must not forget the inestimable advantage to the shareholders of the public being able to get from Paddington to Chelsea in a tunnel for twopence.


QUERY FOR NEXT ELECTION.—No man has a vote until he has attained his majority. How about some districts where they are nearly all Miners?


MEN WHO HAVE TAKEN ME IN—TO DINNER.

(By a Dinner-Belle.)

No. II.—DON JUAN SENIOR.

To share with men the prandial gloom

Of union forced that fatal custom