_Mrs. M._ (_grimly_). Well, it won't be the last by a long way. Oh,
the insight I've had into your character this evening, MIDGELLY!

[_Mr. M. is taken home, to realise that Hypnotism is not
altogether without its dangers._

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[Illustration: THUNDERS FROM SNOWDON.

"Nothing could have served my purpose better, than to have
drawn this illuminating flash out of the thunders," &c.,
&c.--_Vide Duke of Argyll's Letter to The Times, and his
Letter to Somebody who had drawn his Grace's attention to Mr.
Gladstone's Snowdon Speech._

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MEM. FROM WHITBREADFORDSHIRE.--Sir BLUNDELL MAPLE is reported to
have said, "I'll give you a good tip. Back _Duke_--and my horses for
the Cambridgeshire." New Carpet Knight not successful as a sporting
tipster, seeing that Colonel DUKE, though he fought well, was beaten.
Perhaps Sir BLUNDELL meant _the Duke_, who races every night at Drury
Lane. That's a very good tip, as safe as houses--Drury Lane houses, of
course.

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A CITY PARADOX.