readers must be radically wrong. You must change its character at once.

One thing more. You must cease to publish pictures of the character of
those which now appear in your paper. In their place you might
substitute drawings of practical value, such as the _Scientific Yankee_
publishes. If you do this, in addition to making the other changes which
I have suggested, you will find that PUNCHINELLO will make a very
different impression from that which I fear it has already made. In that
case I will become a subscriber, and will send you a few sound, earnest
articles of my own. I am, Yours, in behalf of Progress,

AN EARNEST MAN.

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[Illustration: "WHAT I KNOW ABOUT FARMING."

_Fast Bear (to Officer from Fort.)_ "YOU TELL ME PLANT CORN IN THE
SPRING, THEN GO 'WAY HUNT AND COME BACK GATHER CORN IN THE FALL. UGH!--I
PLANT CORN, AND WHEN I COME GATHER IT YOU SHOOT BULLET IN MY SIDE!"

(_Fact, related by one of the Brule Sioux Chiefs at Washington._)]

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[Illustration: FRUITLESS PERSEVERANCE.

_Earnest Suitor, who has just received a final and flat refusal._ "WOULD
A TOWER IN YURRUP MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE?"