REMAIN IN THE DRAWING-ROOM, WHERE THE LAMPS AND SHADES ARE!"]

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THE FRUIT OF THE SESSION.

"To the bi-monthly exhibition of the Royal Horticultural
Society the Marquis of SALISBURY sent a magnificent
collection--of strawberries especially. Mr. W.H. SMITH showed
specimens of the same luscious fruit, for which he received
the thanks of the Society."--_Daily Telegraph_.

_Head-Gardener_ SM-TH _soliloquiseth_:--

OHO! my beauty! If _you_ don't get a fust prize, and "receive the
thanks of the Society" I'm a cowcumber! "The Fruits of Early Industry
and Economy." Title of a picture by that splendid sample of the
industrious and the economical, GEORGE MORLAND, I believe. Yes, that's
it. My Industry and G-SCH-N's Economy.

We are a moral family;
We are, we are, we are!

All the cardinal virtues bound in--ahem! no matter.

Talk of the Gigantic Gooseberry! What is that apocryphal monstrosity
compared with this Brobdingnagian Berry? [_Sings._

Bravo, my "British Queen"!
Long live my "British Queen"!