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PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

MR. BRIGGS HAS ANOTHER GLORIOUS DAY WITH THE HOUNDS, AND GETS THE BRUSH (FOR WHICH

HE PAYS HALE-A-SOVEREIGN—ONLY DON'T TELL ANYBODY).

TIMELY CAUTION.

ur attention lias been di-
rected to the following
alarming- advertisement in
the Times •.—

" Fifty Widows' Caps Hands
Wanted immediately. Apply
to," &c. &c.

We are married our-
selves, and so are insured
from all danger, but we
cannot caution young men,
and widowers especially,
too strongly against the
imminent peril in which
they are, every one of
them, placed. They had
better stop at home for a
month or two, until the
danger has a little blown
over. The police should
have the same instructions
with regard to widows, as
they have with regard to
orange peel, that, if they
see any weeds encumbering
the pavement, they should
instantly take them up, or

remove them, so that' the public may be protected from the liability of any injury.
I Otherwise it will be scarcely safe, with such an increase of widows, for an unmarried

Among the expenses of obtaining a patent, we find re-
peatedly in one transaction the name of Chaff-wax, placed
opposite to a fee of ten shillings. We have heard of bee's-
wax, sealing-wax, and cobbler's-wax, but Chaff-wax was
something new to us, until we found that he is entitled
to several half-sovereigns upon every patent. Is Chaff-
wax employed to cut chaff upon the humbug of the patent
laws and at the expense of the patentee ? for if he is, why
not adopt as a substitute at a single cost Mary Wedlake's
chaff-cutter ? Chaff-wax must be some lad of wax who has
obtained a snug berth, but as the light of public opinion
has been thrown with a somewhat powerful force upon
■ I the shameful absurdities of the patent laws, we advise Chaff
man to walk the streets ! [ to drQp the waXj lest he may burn his fingers.

CHRISTMAS CAROL EOR THE CRABBED.

Christmas comes with holly twig,
Christmas comes with mistletoe,

Christmas comes with waltz and jig,
Christmas comes with—what we owe!

Ah! with pudding and with beef,

Happy child, thy stomach fill,
Heedless of thy parents' grief,
Figgins's and Cleaver's bill!

Foot i", /limbly on the floor,
Youths and maidens—dance away ;

He whose dancing days are o'er,
Eor the piper has to pay !

Who is Chaff-Wax?

Ca7t£E for Covenanters—The Pope sends a Bull into Scotland. The Scotch Song eor Mr. St. Barnabas Bennett.—"I're been
send it back again, and inform his Holiness that they have a Knox of their own. I Rome-ing, I've been Rome-ing."