two-horse-a-day "_Songs from the Birdcage_," at five guineas
a-week--(a reduction to _owners_)--at which price my selections _must_
be cheap.

Yours devotedly, LADY GAY.

WINDSOR JUNE HANDICAP.

If "SHAKSPEARE" spells "ruin," as Managers say,
Tragedians all should be needy!
But a fortune was made by the best of his day,
And an Actor of "notes" was "_Macready_."

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Why is the Dissolution of Parliament like the human tongue?--Because
it is in everybody's mouth.

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"CUTS!" OR, WE NEVER SPEAK AS WE PASS BY.

[Illustration: _Otto, the Wedding-Guest, singeth:_--]

We never speak as we pass by!
Alas! it was not always so.
But now I cannot catch his eye,
And, when I come, he's prompt to go.
"_Il me reverra._" So I said
When I resigned, his love to try,