The last Christmas Cards to arrive, are Taylor Foot's "Merry Thoughts," &c., from Poland Street,—they're behind time; so very slow a-foot in coming. As practical jokes, the mince-pie cards are uncommonly good, and indeed the sham may be substituted for the real, by a mince pi-ous fraud allowable at Christmas time.
STRIVING AFTER THE IDEAL.
Grandpapa. "Ah, Johnny! There are few better things than Irish Stew!"
Johnny. "What are the few Better Things, Grandpa?"
UNEMPLOYED.
A Christmas Carol for the Comfortable Classes.