Wot price TOMMY ATKINS, then? Everyone pities
His fate, when he's snuffed it, and pity's no good.
Whether STANHOPE is right, or the Times, I ain't sayin';
But here Marm BELLONER gives both a big hint,
As it's rayther a touch-and-go game they are playin',
And TOMMY, he thinks she is right,—plain as print!
"SIC ITUR AD ASTRA!"
Look out for Mr. Punch Among the Planets! He is a Star of the first magnitude, and the above is the title of his Christmas Number. It will issue from, to use astrological language, the House of BRADBURY-AGNEW-&-CO., although the sidereal and celestial subjects of the forthcoming Christmas Number are suggestive of the old days of "BRADBURY and Heavens."