Great THORNTON the slogger, it comes as a jogger To memory this tale of your trophy well merited. Great Scott! how time's flitting. Your gift of tall-hitting, Which no one--save BONNOR--has fully inherited, You showed e'en at Eton. It has not been beaten. You'd whip even JEHU at "furious _driving_." Not dashing O'BRIEN could lick the old Lion Of Cambridge, whose fire is still plainly surviving. The pet of the Million, you've cleared the pavilion, And spanked the ball many times "over the paling," Here's health to you "Buns!" may you score lots of runs, And oft stir the crowd with your spirit unfailing. How often I'd watch when they "bowled for a catch," And you gave 'em one, truly, but in the next parish! You'd run up your hundred, while "all the world wondered," In less than an hour, Sir, a pace wear-and-tearish. Though pedants demur, mighty smiting _will_ stir, So "more power to your elbow," great Slogger of Sixes! Ah! if you should play in the Shades some fine day, The Elysium Fields, in the old Oval way, They must "spread," and you'll _then_ clear the bounds, though they're Styx's!!! * * * * * QUEER QUERIES. CHEAPNESS AND LIGHT.--Will some reader kindly inform me what is the best way of recovering the expenses I have recently been put to in a _most unpleasant_ Norwegian tour? Norway is said to be a cheap country, so I think I was not unreasonable in expecting to be able to see Christiania, Bergen, Trondhjem, and the North Cape, with all the principal fiords and glaciers, for a five-pound note. But I was bitterly disappointed. As for the Midnight Sun, it is a complete fraud, and I should have considered myself lucky if I had seen a mid-day sun more than once or twice in my tour. Ought not the companies who advertise for tourists to explain that the Norse mountains are only _half as high as those in Switzerland_? Then I was assured the hotel charges would be only half as high too; but I found that it was impossible to get supper, bed, and breakfast for less than half-a-crown anywhere! Comment is needless. I have just returned home, and find that I have actually spent, during only three weeks travel, exactly £8 10_s._ 7½_d._ I had a _miserable_ crossing to Hull. Whom ought I to sue? PERISH SCANDINAVIA. * * * * * NOT by "a Popular Baronet." On streams whose course one must not block A weir is found hard by a lock; At Westminster it would appear They'd like a lock upon their Weir. * * * * * [Illustration: MISUNDERSTOOD. _Stage-Manager (to Nervous Amateur)._ "WELL, OLD CHAP, HOW ARE YOU FEELING NOW? GOT RID OF THE STAGE FRIGHT?" _Nervous Amateur._ "YES; SHE'S JUST GONE UP TO HER DRESSING-ROOM!"] * * * * * DOGS' MEET.