I jest 'scaped with my life. The Bear met with a wiolent death
the next day, by bein in the way when a hevily loaded gun was
fired off by one of my men.

But you should hear my Essy which I wrote for the Social Science
Meetins. It would have had a movin effeck on them.

I feel that I must now conclood.

I have read Earl Bright's speech at Leeds, and I hope we shall
now hear from John Derby. I trust that not only they, but Wm. E.
Stanley and Lord Gladstone will cling inflexibly to those great
fundamental principles, which they understand far better than I
do, and I will add that I do not understand anything about any of
them whatever in the least--and let us all be happy, and live
within our means, even if we have to borrer money to do it with.

Very respectfully yours,
Artemus Ward.

5.8. A VISIT TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

MR. PUNCH, My dear Sir,--You didn't get a instructiv article from
my pen last week on account of my nervus sistim havin underwent a
dreffle shock. I got caught in a brief shine of sun, and it
utterly upsot me. I was walkin in Regent Street one day last
week, enjoyin your rich black fog and bracing rains, when all at
once the Sun bust out and actooally shone for nearly half an hour
steady. I acted promptly. I called a cab and told the driver to