The pissmire iz a blak bugg about 23 times az big az the ant, and az phull ov important bizzness az the chairman ov a wimmins rights convenshun. They hav thirteen konsekutive leggs on each side ov their boddys, and allwuss travel on the run. They are like sum men, ever hunting for sumthing to do, but never was known to find it. I hav seen them travel for two hours, bakwards, and forwards, and not git 3 feet from whare they started from, stopping every now and then to listen. The pissmire iz the loafer amung bugs, and like other loafers, livs from hand to mouth. Their home iz a hole in the ground, but call on them az often az yu pleze, yu will never find them in. They git up late, and go to bed late, and are allwuss hungry, and hollow. They are az lazy az mollassis in the month ov Febuary, and az useless az an extra dog in a family. Pissmires are a poor speculashun, i wouldn't giv 50 cents for the whole krop. _REFLECKSHUNS._ If yu are going to giv a man enny thing giv it to him cheerfully, and quick, dont make him git down on hiz kneeze in front ov yu, and listen to the 10 commandments, and then yu giv him 5 cents. * * * * * The man who is allwuss confessing hiz sins, and never quitting them, iz the most onsartin sinner i kno ov. 31 Days. DECEMBER. 1875. Q.--Who's yure favourite heroine in romanse? @ @ A.--Old Mother Hubbard. @ @ @ [Illustration] _When the sensashun drama is ended, Our hero remembers with pain, That the plezzures ov life are but fleeting, And he goes for hiz koal box again._