(Not up and _saying_, be't well understood). As TUPPER (the
Honourable C.H., Minister
Of Fisheries) said, in the style of his namesake, "The fool
imagines all Silence is sinister,
"But the wise man knows that it's often dexterous." Be sure no
inquisitive shyness or bounce'll
Make us "too previous" with our Report, which goes first to the
QUEEN and the Privy Council.
Some bigwig's motto is, "Say and Seal," but as TUPPER remarked a
forefinger laying
To the dexter side of a fine proboscis, "Our motto at present is,
Seal _without_ saying!"

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LEGAL QUERY.--The oldest of the thirteen Judges on the Scotch Bench is
YOUNG. Any chance for a Junior after this?

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THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS.

NO. XII.

SCENE--_In front of the Hôtel Bodenhaus at Splügen. The
Diligence for Bellinzona is having its team attached. An
elderly Englishwoman is sitting on her trunk, trying to run
through the last hundred pages of a novel from the Hotel
Library before her departure. PODBURY is in the Hotel,
negotiating for sandwiches. CULCHARD is practising his