QUITE NATURAL.

Mamma. "ETHEL DEAR, WHY WON'T YOU SAY GOOD-BYE TO THIS GENTLEMAN? HE IS VERY KIND!"

Ethel. "BECAUSE, MUMMY DEAR, YOU TOLD HIM JUST NOW HE IS 'THE LION OF THE SEASON,'—AND I AM SO FRIGHTENED!"


"DE PROFUNDIS."

(By an Indignant "Outsider.")

A masterpiece, worthy of TURNER,

Was mine, there my friends all agree,

No work of a pot-boiling learner,