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A LESSON TO LOUIS BLANC.

(From Punch's own Correspondence.)

MY DEAR LOUIS BLANC,

Ireland's peace, and the unreasoning underminers of Ireland's prosperity; the men who blow the blast of civil war in the Irishman and its kindred prints; the skulking rascals who write threatening letters, "tumble" landlords, and beat out tenants' brains, and occasionally hamstring cows, or cut off their owners' noses?

I was getting to have a high respect for your candour, her ultimate victory always and everywhere. She fervently hopes for In Ireland, as elsewhere, England has faith in Justice, and looks for sagacity, and sound sense in political matters. I thought experience the reign of Love even where the Nemesis of Hate has long ruled; of English politics, and observation of English peculiarities, had so and she trusts to the coming of Prosperity when her way has been tempered your democratic doctrinaireism with discretion, that your prepared by Order. But she knows no such enemy to justice as letters to the Temps might be looked to as about the best comments on lawlessness, no such deadly foe to love as hate, no such obstacles to English affairs for the guidance of your numerous French readers that order and prosperity as discontent, disloyalty, and terror. That had ever been suggested to a French head, or found expression from a justice, love, order, and prosperity may have time and opportunity French pen. But your letter on the Peace Preservation Bill has sadly to establish their blessed rule in Ireland, England is determined to disappointed-or, shall I say, rudely undeceived me. You tear your fetter the hands and to silence the tongues and trumpets of lawlesshair, and break out into wailing over the Bill: see in it a falling off from Liberal faith, and a dereliction of Liberal duty. "It breaks your ness, hate, discontent, disloyalty, and terror-nay, to put strait-waistheart' "It puts Ireland in a state of siege""It drives you to one their keepers, first, and dash out their own brains afterwards. coats, if you prefer that image, on the madmen who would destroy of two conclusions-either the reforms effected or promised are not such as the evil to be remedied required, or Ireland is irreconcile-servation Bill. I recommend it to you as the text of your next letter That is the explanation, my dear LOUIS BLANC, of the Peace PreYours very truly,

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Mon cher LOUIS, is it possible that you really feel yourself on the to the Temps, horns of this dilemma ? Are you not, half unconsciously, falling back into your old doctrinaire frame of mind, and ignoring realities because they jar with a compact and convenient formula?

Do you not see that the notorious and obvious facts of this case point neither to the one of your conclusions nor the other, but to a third, which you omit altogether; namely, that Ireland is suffering under the disease of lawlessness, engendered by many causes, but just now brought to a head by the combined aggravations of Fenianism, a dishonest, disloyal, and dangerous Press, Secret Societies, old delusions and bitter memories, and some ill-timed acts of bad landlordism, met by triumphant resistance to the law, arrayed, unhappily, for the moment as it has too often been in Ireland, but is less likely to be, henceforth on the side of greed and cruelty ?

As the Church and Land Bills are meant to dissever the law from such unnatural allies as sectarian ascendency and lust of greed, the Peace Preservation Bill is meant to put down such enemies of Ireland as Fenianism, a seditious and anarchic Press, Ribbonism and its secret war on life and property-and thus to give the Reforms which the Irish Church and Irish Land Bills planted, time to take root and grow and bear fruit-which they are not likely to do, my dear LOUIS, in a day or a year: it is only French trees of liberty that are planted in that hope. It is meant to secure life and property against the forces of evil combined for war against both, and against the peace and prosperity of Ireland which are bound up with them.

Is it really possible, my dear LOUIS, that you do not see this? Entre nous, I have too much respect for you not to conclude that you do see it as plainly as I do; but that to own it might involve you in some awkward admissions, and awaken some disagreeable recollections. The Peace Preservation Bill does not put a single restriction on lawful liberty. There is one way in which every county in Ireland may exempt itself from its restrictions of individual freedom-by abstaining from outrages on life and property. There is one way in which every newspaper in Ireland may laugh at its provisions against the Press by not talking treason, sowing sedition, and hounding on a passionate public to defiance of the law and hostility of class and race.

Let me ask you. Have you read the articles in the so-called "National" Irish newspapers? Can you honestly say, or think, that national liberty will suffer, national life be touched, national self-respect outraged, national prosperity impaired, by the sternest and most sudden suppression of their unceasing incentives to civil war, their weekly invitations to a general upsetting of society, and a carnival of violence and outrage? I cannot pay you the ill-compliment of supposing that, having read these papers, and watched what has been going on in Ireland for the last six months, you can seriously think of comparing MR. GLADSTONE'S Peace Preservation Act with LOUIS NAPOLEON'S law of public safety, or likening its Press provisions to those in force under the French Empire, as it was.

No. The Peace Preservation Act neither proves that the Irish Church Bill and the Irish Land Bill were mistakes, nor that the Irish people are irreconcileable. It but proves that there are wolves in Ireland, and that we mean to muzzle them-even though they call themselves wolf-hounds; that there are writers who have drawn their nourishment from the social and political sores of Ireland, as blow-flies and maggots wax fat upon corruption; and that we will no longer allow them to keep these sores open for the sake of their impure and ignoble subsistence, to the irritation, first, and ultimately the exhaustion of the sufferer whose decay they batten on.

One word, by the way, of answer to those who, like the Spectator last week, and a correspondent of the Spectator this week, accuse me of recklessly sowing ill-will between England and Ireland, by such cartoons as my late one, called "The Irish Tempest," in which, they seem to assume that Ireland is embodied as Caliban. Do not these critics see that Ireland is there personified, not as Caliban, but as Miranda? That what Caliban personifies are the brutal disturbers of

SCIENTIFIC NOTICES.

On and after April 1, 1870.

PUNCH.

Letter H in Ampstead hill meet at the 'Are and 'ounds 'ighgate 'ill. The Annual Meeting of the Society for the Suppression of the A Lecture on the use of Protoplasms (hot) in all cases of syncope and measles will be given at the Royal Idiotic Institute, April 1, 1870. At Colwell Hatchney College.-Discourse on Abnormal Absorption in the Vacuum of Fermentation. With Diagrams. Squibs to be had in the hall, two for three halfpence, or five a penny on taking a quantity.

Readings from the Dhammapada with explanations in Singhalese on all Mondays and Tuesdays after the last in each month. Apply at the door of the British Museum. (N.B. Ask for what you like, and make yourself quite at home if I'm not in. Signed Professor B.) Sea Botany, with Inquiries into the best mode of rearing Ocean Currants. Lectures on this interesting subject every afternoon, after dark, in the first room on the left as you go into the South Kensington Museum from Cromwell Road. Don't come, if you don't like. Cakes, buns, and tea always hot. Lots of fun when everyone's gone. Ask for Professor S.: a shilling to the policeman will do the trick. Great larks. Bring your own candle. (N.B. If you can play, bring your instrument.)

The Bighton Aquarium Company may be seen trying their new Bathing Experiments from 11 A.M. till 2 P.M. on April the first. All sorts of gambols by the Professors. Fancy bathing in all its perfection. Literature.-A Lecture on the Writings of UGO TOBATH will be delivered on the 31st instant. * The colours will be out the night before at the Spotted Dog, and any one looking in there with the password will be put up to the time of the trains on the following morning. JIM.

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THE IRISH TREASONMONGER TO HIMSELF.

ОCH, what will I do for a livin'
Whin I can sell thraison no more?
By jabers, I'll have to be givin'
The thrade ov a journalist o'er.

A base tailor's mane occupation
I'd scorn to live honestly by ;
I'd like some gintale situation:
Bedad, I'll turn Government Spy!

An Extension of Time.

TURNING night into day is a common practice, with which many people must be familiar, but at the Haymarket Theatre they appear to do just the opposite (with a vengeance too), and to have found out the secret of turning a day not into one night, but into a dozen; for by public advertisement of the Haymarket arrangements, we are informed that " many inquiries having been made for the greatly successful comedy, New Men and Old Acres, it will be performed on Saturday, April 9th, for twelve nights only." "Only!"

NICE AMERICAN NAMES.

Ir is said that somewhere in the United States the epithet, REMARKABLE, is in use for women as a Christian name. By-and-by, perhaps some American journalist will have his infant daughter christened RELIABLE.

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Shoddyspeck (a mere Millionnaire in the Midland Counties). DINNER, YOUNG BROWN

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""FRAID I SHAN'T BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU A LADY TO TAKE IN TO Brown (not easily snubbed). "No, OLD SHODDYSPECK, I SUPPOSE NOT, DOWN HERE! BUT ANY OF THESE WOMEN WILL DO FOR ME! 'MUSTN'T BE PARTICULAR WHEN ONE COMES INTO THE WILDS, YOU KNOW!"

JUSTICE FOR IRELAND!

SOME people blame the Government for its apparent apathy respecting the foul outrages and murders rife in Ireland. The Government may answer that force has proved a failure; that theirs is a pacific and not repressive policy; that their Church Bill and their Land Bill will satisfy all claims for justice at our hands; and that these sedatives are certain, in course of time, to cure. The Government, may, doubtless, have fair grounds for their opinion, but there are some good judges who differ from such judgment. Among them may be cited LORD CHIEF JUSTICE WHITESIDE, who, referring to the threatenings, and pistollings, and riotings so terribly now rife, is reported to have said:

"If this awful state of things be allowed to continue, if crime goes thus undetected, the result will be that the people will consider themselves safer under the protection of these skulking murderers than under that of the law. If crime go thus unpunished, then the result must be that the arm of the law will be paralysed, and its administration impossible."

"Justice for Ireland!" has for long years been the cry, and thanks, in a great measure, to the energy of the Government, justice in many surely not be done, and that is if the power of the law is to be paraways is surely being done. But there is one way in which justice will lysed, and the ministering of justice is virtually to cease. If rioters are to defy the ministers of justice, and assassins go unpunished for their atrocious crimes, great injustice will be done to all honest folk in Ireland, who indeed must all live out of it, if they wish to save their lives.

Shoulders!

M. OLLIVIER is a brave man. In the midst of his own work for liberty he encourages his wife to discourage the low-necked dresses worn by ladies. We are afraid that it will be found easier to reform than to re-dress.

NOT A PUFF, REALLY.

MR. PUNCH has been requested by a distinguished Monthly to make known, in the interests of Babydom, the advantages to be gained by the use of "the Norwegian Self-Acting Cooking Apparatus," by which pap and gruel and beef tea may be kept hot for an indefinite period. Nurses of every denomination will appreciate a contrivance which makes them independent of "watching the hob" at times when a comfortable nap is both needful and acceptable, and Mr. Punch is glad to direct their attention to one means of lightening their anxious labours. The machine has other uses, which are fairly set forth in a prospectus, and those who object to cold dinners cannot do better than procure it.

Principiis Obsta.

PUNCH does not wonder at certain ultra-extreme parties being afraid lest the church-folk should teach little children their alphabet. When D. for Dean, and so on till we come to V. for Verger, and W. for one reflects that A. stands for Archbishop, B. for Beadle, C. for Canon, throw out the Education Bill. Westryman, we shudder at the thought of the terrible engine of proselytism which may be placed in the hands of the clergy. By all means

"FOOT IT NEATLY HERE AND THERE."

WHAT should the Commons do unto the petitioners against the Tipperary election that floored the Fenian? An Irish echo answers, "Kick'am."

NOT AN UNREASONABLE PREJUDICE.

WHO can wonder at criminals disliking to have their photographs taken, when the cartes of so many most respectable persons are said not to do them justice?

Printed by Joseph Smith, of No. 24, Holford Square, in the Parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, at the Printing Offices of Messrs. Bradbury, Evans, & Co., Lombard Street, in the Precinct of Whitefriars, in the City of London, and Published by him at No. 85, Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Bride, City of London.-SATURDAY, April 2, 1870.

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A FEARFUL RITE AT ROME.

SIR, You know that, about the date of the suppression of the Knights Templars, strange rumours were current of indefinite horrors supposed to be perpetrated in the secret Chapters held by that mysterious brotherhood. Read this telegram from Rome, dated March 22, being the day after that whereon the POPE had held a secret Consistory:

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Among the prelates preconised in the Consistory yesterday were the ARCHBISHOPS OF ARMAGH and TORONTO, the BISHOPS OF SAVANNAH, ARMIDALE, and ST. AUGUSTINE."

LITERARY ICE-STACKS.

A NEWSPAPER report concerning the University Crews states that both of them, one day last week, for practice pulled up the river, "regardless of the pitiless pelting of the storm," and, in particular, that "Oxford rowed up to Mortlake during a heavy fall of snow." Would it not be a good plan to cut passing allusions like these to the inclemency of the season out of the papers, and keep them to refer to when it is hot? The notices of "The Weather and the Parks," which our contemporaries are wont to publish in the winter months, might in like manner be reserved for June, July, and August. Such frigid intelligence would form nice cool Summer reading. It is true that nobody can "hold a fire in his hand" merely "by thinking upon frosty Caucasus;" but still imagination may be cooled or warmed by appeals to it suggestive of temperature high or low; imagination accordingly can cool or warm the frame: and surely reminiscences of ice, snow, sleet, frost, and cold, bitter easterly and north-easterly winds would be found rather refreshing in the dog-days.

We have lately been shivering-in two or three months more we may be perspiring, and then the mental reproduction of wintry cold, accompanying iced champagne, or claret-cup, will at least be an aid to refrigeration.

A PRESERVER OF PROPERTY.

SOME hundred yards from where the Fleet
Was wont to roll his turbid tide,
Whilst walking up a narrow street
With stores of wealth on either side,
I marked a stout policeman there,
Performing his appointed use;
Each window-bar he passed, with care
He pulled, to try if it was loose.

I am not of gregarious mould,

I cannot shout, do never cheer,
But at his work when I bebold

A hero, noiselessly revere.

"Brave ROBERT," I in thought exclaimed,

"Well done! What owe we not to thee?'

His number may as well be named;

Four hundred 'twas and forty-three.

"HORSE LATITUDES."-Those allowed, in the way of lying, to horse-sellers.

BRAGGARTS AND THEIR MONEYBAGS.

DATING from Berlin'a Foreign Office-r reports that :-
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"A good deal of the present dearness of living is attributable to the number of Americans, who are accustomed to the high paper prices of their own country, and are too apt to observe that everything is very cheap, which induces shopkeepers to raise their prices accordingly."

Saying to a shopkeeper that his goods are very cheap is another way of telling him that you have lots of money, and in fact of boasting idly of your wealth. Nothing is more snobbish than to brag about the fulness of one's purse. Men who do so hardly can be said to make an Preconised! That word doubtless means something as dreadful as empty boast, although it is quite true they make an empty-headed one. any one of the ordeals which the members of the Order whose latest It is worse than for a lord to brag about his title, for such a braggart Grand Master was JACQUES DE MOLAI had to undergo at their dark act can scarcely hurt his neighbours; whereas, by raising prices, séances. The Holy Father may excommunicate Freemasons, because boasters of their riches much injure poorer folk. The game of brag is they refuse to confess their secret, but they, how closely soever they popular in the United States, but when played in the above way on may be tiled in their lodges, are none of them ever preconised. Sir, I this side of the Atlantic, it thoroughly deserves to be indicted as a should like to have the person of one of these preconised prelates ex-nuisance. amined soon after he had undergone the operation of being so served. I warrant you he would be found to bear a mark worse than that of the actual cautery merely, not to say red-hot poker. What mark? Sir, the mark of the Animal. To be preconised means to be marked with that. Ask DR. CUMMING if it doesn't, unless you are content to take Yours truly, G. H. W.

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What's in a Name?

"The net result of the year's balance-sheet is, that the income of the twelve months exceeds the expenditure by something like eight millions."— "Times" article on the Finances of the Year.

HEREIN Finance's irony is shown-
LOWE's surplus is the highest ever known!

A BENEVOLENT THOUGHT.

MRS. MALAPROP, understanding that women can act as Commissioners of Sewers, says she knows a great many poor seamstresses who would be very glad if ladies could give them work at better wages than they are now earning.

AWFUL MENACE.

THERE has been assessing of damages in a case of Breach of Promise in the north of England-names are no object. Some of the gentleman's letters were edifying, though he did not write very good English. Among his wishes for the welfare of his (then) beloved is this:

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May the sun of glory shine around thy bed, and may the gate of honour, plenty, and happiness for ever be upon thee."

If the sun of glory is very bright, one of CHILD's Night Lights might be preferable; and as to having a gate upon one, that is matter of taste-we should imitate the pig, which, according to the vulgar saying, makes under a gate more noise than aught but two pigs. We suspect, however, that the ardent party had been transcribing from an older writer. For, when he becomes natural, mark the transition :—

"EMMA, no one can speak the love I bear to you, and I hope you will cherish the same to make us both happy, and I should feel heart broken if there should be a parting. Brandy and billiards would be my life then."

Brandy, if good, and taken in moderation, is a good familiar creature, and billiards, played in refined society (best with ladies, in a country house) may be indulgently spoken of. But the menace, in the sense of this lover, is truly awful. That he might have the less to spend in so dreadful a manner, the jury mulcted him in the sum of £750. By the way, when Women's Rights are obtained, surely these actions will be abolished-a woman will scorn to ask money for the loss of such a trumpery thing as a husband. Love has been defined as an insane desire to maintain somebody else's daughter. We shall want a new definition.

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To work, to dinner and to business. Leap!"

The Last New Metre. To be called the "Expected Rhythmical Metre."

Proudly he waved his jewelled hand.

Gladly he cheered his neighing steed.
Tightly he sat the saddle on.

Gently he grasped the bridle. So!

Paused he a moment on the brink.

Paused he on home and joy to dwell?

Paused he from fear? His hands, they shake.

I mean the people press to shake his hands.

Then slily does the Pont-Max wink his eye,
And at his beck the stalwart priests approach.

"Beware his hoofs! he kicks!".

Cries Quintus Curtius, bravely.

But they had rods for whips,

And nodded to him slowly.

Quintus delayed: the Augurs hit

The beast, and urged him to the space,

The yawning chasm, and they pushed behind.

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"Stop! Stop!" cried Curtius, "I have changed my plan."

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These words alone the Augurs heard,
Next instant, like a flying hawk,

Curtius and horse swooped downwards into space,
Surprise was shown upon his handsome phiz.

Then the earth closed, and all, of every class,
Of Quintus Curtius said, "My! what a fool!"

Only one Roman grieved for him and sorrow'd,
'Twas he from whom the noble steed he'd hired.

PUNCH'S SECOND COLUMN.

(All Genuine.)

No, X.-I will not tell you Y.

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PAUL. Please yourself. VIRGINIA has made other arrangements, and will be married in three weeks. "A Cottage near a wood" is poetical, but a villa in St. John's Wood has practical advantages. To show that she bears no ill-will towards you, any becoming wedding-present will be accepted. But don't send a butter-dish, or Tupper.

TO LUCINDA.You would not look, though I occupied the stall I mentioned, and you condemned me to sit out the whole of the piece, in the hope that you would relent. Surely you owe me compensation. Make your papa take you to Sir George and a Dragon, next Tuesday, and when the Bull-fight comes, think of and look at him to whom you vowed faith at Cowes.

SMILING JAMES.-All is well.

The hitherto obdurate menial

listens to the voice of the charmer, and informs us that the family will be out at a ball on Wednesday. We shall therefore honour the premises with a visit at 11.30 P.M., and as we shall not adopt the war-medal plan, but shall divide the silver among those only who were present at the action, you had better be punctual. Bring your own jemmy and life-preserver. Dog will be dosed, as you are nervous.

EXPECTING PETER. The only information which has yet been

obtained is that the party's name is SMITH, and that he lives somewhere in Yorkshire. If you wish a messenger to be sent into that county to follow up this clue, remit funds.

VARUS.-Why will you be so obstinate? Every one is against you. Should you make a will? It is only giving money to a lawyer, and whatever you may do, the family has resolved to contest the document. Your course is clear. Return to town, divide your money equally among your cousins, and trust to their affection to render the evening of your life as pleasant as is possible in the case of a person of your unfortunate disposition. Or they will unite to pension you, in moderation, if your detestable temper prefer solitude in a remote cottage. Why will you be deaf to the voice of consanguinity?

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-Dearest Papa, forgive me-forgive us. Con

In the above example, the poetic reader will observe with notes of Avinced that aristocracy is not an institution to be encouraged, I rejected

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ass " with "class," "borrowed" with "sorrowed," "face" with
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His jewelled hand he waved proudly;
His neighing steed he cheerèd loudly;
On the saddle he sat tightly

So! the bridle he grasped lightly.

A NEW WATER-COLOUR EXHIBITION. WHEN the EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH lately visited the East, many were the prophecies put forward by the Gobemouches as to the political results of her journey. So far as we can learn, its only consequence at present has been the introduction of a colour for a ball-dress, which is thus described by a fashionable pen :

"The new colour, Eau de Nil, is a delicate mixture of grey and green, shot with silver, so that at every movement of the body to give the robe the aspect of flowing water."

LORD MOSSTOWERS, and equally convinced that woman needs a conductor, I have married the conductor of the Hercules omnibus by which you used to go into town. You know, dear, you have often commended his clean appearance and civility, and indeed you first drew my attention to him. The match is your own making, bless it, and also your affectionate POLLY.

MARlived a shilling, avoided putting me into your pew, and placed me in

ARIA JANE.-You saw that the pew-opener, though she had refront, so that I could not even see you. I am convinced, from the old creature's manner of looking at me, that she had been tampered with. I have a great mind to write to the Bishop, who would remember my name from having so frequently flogged me when he was the head of ***** school. Has our secret been betrayed? I do not like to speak harshly of your father, but his gaze, as I passed, discomfited, was stony and offensive. Your mother affected to be looking out a hymn. Your sisters evidently sniggered. I will (for the present) keep my hands off your arrogant brother. Next Sunday I repeat the experiment, and with half-a-crown. If I fail, Convocation shall hear of it? Am I to be mocked in church ?-ORLANDO FURIOSO.

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YSTERIOUS CHARLES.-Of course, you goose, you can go on advertising, if you like, and do not mind the money, which I must say I think might be better laid out (5) but it is quite ridiculous, for both papa and mamma are as ready to welcome you as were the parents of MISS JENNY HAFFLINS, in the Cotter's Saturday Night. You were introduced at the South K. M., and invited to call. But I suppose you really do not care about seeing JEMIMA.

This may be a cool and pleasant aspect for the summer, but for WHISKERANDOS.-Certainly not at the hotel you mention, for winter time we hardly can imagine it agreeable. Indeed, with the experience which we have had since Christmas, were we to notice in our drawing-room the aspect of flowing water, our first impression would be that the pipes again had burst. Assuredly we should expect to look the picture of despair, if we were present at such a water-colour

exhibition.

Indiscriminate Humanity.

So the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has pounced upon the Islington Bull-fighters, summoned them before a Magistrate, had them fined, and stopped their entertainments. From Islington to Wormholt Scrubbs is not far, and it is much to be feared by the tame pigeon shooting nobility and gentry that the officers of an impartial Association, vigilant to protect poor animals from cruelty, will as soon as possible be likewise down upon the Gun Club.

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reasons which I can explain, and so can the landlord. Walk up and down the path by the bank, in the opposite meadow, from 1 to 6 P.M., and if it rains, get under the first arch of the bridge. Be careful not to enter any house whatever, and do not smoke, as that looks profligate. Improve your mind by admiring the key-stones of the bridge, they were carved by MRS. DAWSON DAMER, a friend of HORACE WALPOLE. If I do not come, return by the last train, and you will find a letter.-JOHN CUCUMBER. NNABEL L --Return. All has been done to make you happyyour troublesome brothers have been sent to boarding-school, your nagging sisters are gone to AUNT AGITATE at Herne Bay, your parents will give up their nap after dinner, all the servants have been changed, the dog has been presented to a friend, a cheval glass has been put into your bed-room, your dress allowance will be doubled, a pew has been taken at a Ritualist shall be called to breakfast instead of being summoned by the bell, the church, there is a new laundress, the tree you disliked has been cut down, you screeching water-cress man has been run over, and your cousin HORACE may call when he likes. So return to the loved home so long adorned by your presence, and to be in future, we hope, adorned by your smiles.

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