The chipmunk iz the smallest of the squirrell tribe. They are striped goods, having three blak lines wove into them, running the same way the squirrell duz. Az a spekulator in corn the chipmunk stands at the hed ov all the small operators, beating the blujay, in hiz yearly operashuns about a quart. The chipmunk carrys hiz corn in hiz mouth, and when he cums out ov a cornfield loaded with the cereal, his cheeks stik out like a duch baby's. Sumtimes the chipmunk iz kaught and kept in a cage, and iz made to turn a wheel for a living, this iz the only usefull work they hav ever been known to do. I hav often lookt at them at work in their wheels, and dont kno which i pitty the most, the chipmunk, or the party who has to tend them, both of them mite be in better bizzness. They are the only insekt who dig their holes and sho no pile ov dirt at the entrance. I hav asked sevral smart men what bekums ov the dirt, but they all shook their heds and lookt awfull wize. When i waz a boy i used to ketch chipmunks bi running away from skool, and the day that I brought in two ov them waz a big day for me. _CRUMBS._ The devil iz a very cunning phellow, but the blunders he makes allwuss eats up the profitts in hiz bizzness. * * * * * A dandy iz an individul whoze usephullness in this world depends entirely upon the fit ov hiz clothes. 31 Days. MARCH. 1879. [Illustration: ARIES, THE RAM. _On the War Path.--The hit ov the seazon._] +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ |@ | @ || _The Slate_. | _DU DROPS._ | +--+---++------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | 1| S || _Wind_ @ @ @ | | | 2| G ||@ *-*-*- now | The things that i kant prove i | | 3| M ||@ _howls_ @ tan @ | beleave the most, i beleave that | | 4| T ||_more_ @ woodchuk | one apple iz sour, and another | | 5| W ||@ _wind_ @ skins @ | one sweet, but i will giv enny | | 6| T ||Pete @ _wind_ | highly eddikated man, a span ov | | 7| F ||@-@ Perkins @-@ | matched mules, who will tell me | | 8| S ||_r-i-z-e-s_ @ b-o-r-n | what makes them so. | | 9| G ||@ _more_ @ @ 1840 @ | | |10| M ||_windfull_ @ | | |11| T ||----Pete @ _it_ | * * * * * | |12| W || | | |13| T ||@ _rains_ @ waz @ | I hav lived just long enuff to | |14| F ||@ @ coloured @ @ | find out how little i kno, and no | |15| S ||_sighns_ @ @ @ he | man who throws away hiz faith, | |16| G ||@ waz @ _ov_ @ @ @ | iz ever going to be very wize. | |17| M ||_snow_ @ a @ @ @ | |