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HUMOURS OF THE POST OFFICE.
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the prescribed muzzle on his tail instead of on his head.


Fig. 8.

A visitor to Broadstairs finds the name of this seaside resort represented by a pair of immense optics remarkably wide open (Fig. 6).


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An Irishman has adopted a good means of making the donkey he is riding go (Fig. 7). He is holding a bunch of carrots in frontof the animal, which the energetic creature is frantically endeavouring to reach. Hence the pace. There rests a traveller, far from home, on his hotel bed. Visions in the distance appear of a wife washing the children and putting them to bed. The traveller may be happy in his domestic dreams, but he does not know that the mice are seeking refuge for the night within his boots, which are thrown down at the foot of the bedstead (Fig. 8). A Mrs. Cook was the recipient of a wrapper on which a sportsman is seen "missing" hare with his gun—the animal making a