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  2. EASTER.

    I HATE holidays. I never want any holidays myself. I don’t see the use of holidays unless it be to make people exceedingly weary, and listless, and unfit to perform their ordinary duties. Relaxation quotha, there’s a great deal too much relaxation ; indeed, I wonder ...

    Article : 535 words
  3. MARTLECOHELMOMACHIA; OR, THE BATTLE OP THE BARRISTERS, IN WHICH ONE ONLY SHOWED FIGHT.

    SING to me, Muse, of the wrath of two barristers famous in Sandhurst, MARTLEY the bumptious and tetchy, and HELM the phlegmatic and crusty; ...

    Article : 1,089 words
  4. PIC-NIC MEMS.

    IT is strange but true, that at every pic-nic some one ought to have brought something which he has not brought, and which he declares is wanting through no fault of his. It is not pleasant to see your “beloved” go out with a ...

    Article : 289 words
  5. You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Choice.

    IN the Herald of Monday we are informed that “By the ‘Stag,’ which arrived from Camden Harbour yesterday, 20 of her original passengers have returned thoroughly disgusted with their adventure.” In the same column of the same journal we are informed that “The ...

    Article : 219 words
  6. Quite Successful.

    THE latest successful practical joke was accomplished on Monday last by the Herald, which succeeded in making its readers go through a dreary half-column account of a man being crushed in a drive, by heading it “A Dreadful Case of Murder and Suicide.” The joke ...

    Article : 145 words
  7. How Mr. Punch Spent Easter.

    MR. PUNCH has gone in heavily for holidays, and has enjoyed his Easter to his heart's content. He has voluntarily immured himself in a second-class railway carriage for goodness knows how many hours, and has allowed himself to be conveyed by that enviable means of transit ...

    Article : 224 words
  8. Probable.

    MR. Barrister MARTLEY has been punching the head of MR. Barrister HELM, and glorying in the deed. The day he was fined pounds for indulging in this dignified pastime, however, he suffered from a temporary accession of remorse, and was heard to say that in ...

    Article : 81 words
  9. The Reason Why.

    THERE is no wonder that the Parliament of Victoria goes great lengths, when it is remembered that during the last session no less than sixty-eight measures were brought before it. ...

    Article : 25 words
  10. The Right Men in the Right Place.

    MESSRS. EMBLING, BEANEY and BLAIR in the intensely absurd position of judges at a baby-show. ...

    Article : 21 words
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