Q. E. D.

Don't tell me of "room at the top!" It's a case,

I'm sure, of "no thoroughfare." I'm at the base!

Does that not suffice you? There only remains

Some "room at the top" of your head, man, for brains.


A Dickensian Question.—At the date when Martin Chuzzlewit was written, what may fairly be assumed to have been the fashionable hour for dining?


ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.