Sandy (viewing doctor's bill). "But the bill is no richt, Sir. Ye've charged me for seven days instead o' six. Dinna ye mind I was deleerious one day an' was not aweer of your presence?"


ANALGESIA.

(With Mr. Punch's best wishes for the speedy recovery of the French President.)

["President Deschanel ... was compelled to take several analgesia cachets. (Analgesia is a condition in which there is incapacity of feeling pain).">[—Evening Paper.

When, haply through excess of cake,

In childhood's days of fun and frolic,

I suffered from that local ache

Known to the Faculty as colic;