so I bring back fresh eggs from town, and, as my conservatory is
not yet full, flowers from Covent Garden; and I can assure you that,
until you try it, you cannot tell the amount of pleasure and exercise
which walking a couple of miles (the distance of my cottage from the
station), laden with groceries and other eatables, can be made to
afford. Yours chirpily,

FIELD-FARE.

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GOOD FOR SPORT!--A well-known chartered accountant, with a vulpine
patronymic, complains of the unkind treatment he recently received in
Cologne at the hands of the German police. He should be consoled
by the thought, that his persecution marked in those latitudes the
introduction of Fox-hunting.

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[Illustration: YANKEE EXCLUSIVENESS.

_Young Britisher_. "YOUR FATHER'S NOT WITH YOU THEN, MISS VAN TROMP?"

_Fair New York Millionnairess_ (_one of three_). "WHY, NO--PA'S MUCH
TOO VULGAR! IT'S AS MUCH AS WE CAN DO TO STAND MA!"]

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THE QUICKSAND!