take me home, and finisht by saying, "If you ever want a triful, Sir,
you know where to get it." And all I has to add is, that I thinks as
my better arf mite have been jest a leetel more grayshus, as I told
her, with amost tears in my eyes, of the graitfool conduck of the Lady
of ---- Square.

ROBERT.

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CHRISTMAS IN GERMANY.--"The beauties of Leadenhall and Farringdon,"
said the _D.T._, "do not figure in 'der Hallen an der Spree.'" But
in England, during Christmas time generally, we were "Hallen on der
Spree." Rather!

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"THE DRAMA OF TO-DAY."--A Morning Performance.

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