w, "INFELIX THE"--
blow it.
Sech names you can't write nor yet spell, if you're not a School
Board or a Poet.
Talks of our "hard hide," does, "INFELIX," I'd like to lay hands
upon hisn!
All becos Upper 'Ampstead, it seems, is a sort of a dark ice-bound
prison.
No 'busses, no trams, and no cabs, no grub, and no gas, and no water!
Ha! ha! Pooty picter it is, and thanks be I don't dwell in _that_
quarter!
But wot's it to do with poor Me? If he wants it himproved he had
best try
Them proud County-Councillor coves, not come wallopping into the
Westry.
Wot use, too, to talk of Wienna? Don't know where that is, and
don't wanter,
But, 'cording to "SNOWBOUND," their style of snow-clearing beats
ourn in a canter.
Ratepayers' Defencers may rave, and the scribblers may scold or
talk funny,
But clean streets in Winter mean this,--_you must plank down a
dollup more money_!

_Me_ up and be doing meanwhile? No, not if I jolly well knows it.
I likes my own fireside too well to go snow-clearing, don't you
suppose it.
A choice between slither and slush may come 'ard on the Mighty
Metrolopus,
But Westrydom ain't on the job, 'owsomever they worry and wallop us.
Bless yer, we've stood it before, and can stand it agen, all this
fussing.
_My_ game's a swig and a smoke; as for them--they can go on
"discussing."

[_Shuts door, and retires to his snuggery for spirituous
solace_.

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[Illustration: BUMBLE AT HOME; OR, "THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT."

"CLEAR THE STREETS!--AND IN SUCH BEASTLY WEATHER?--UGH! NOT IF I KNOW
IT!!"

(_December 31, 1890, and January, 1891._)]

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THE COMPOSER COMING.

[Illustration: "I've an hoe," by Sir Arthur Sullivan.]

[Illustration: Mus Doc.]

We are looking forward to _Ivanhoe_, by Sir ARTHUR S. SULLIVAN, Mus.
Doc. From what our Musical Critic has seen of the score, he is able to
wink his eye wisely but not too well, and to hint that as _Mr. Guppy_
says, "There are chords"; and to make these chords in combination,
the strings are admirably fitted. There is one chord (will it be
recognised as belonging to _Box_?) which-- But, as Sir ARTHUR says,
"Where will be the surprise, if your Musical Critic tells everything
beforehand?" H