Every fellow says you are such a good chap, and what every fellow says must be true. Now we want you to do us a good turn. We wish you would write down "holiday tasks." It is such a beastly shame that fellows home for "the Yule-Tide Vacation" (as our Head Master calls it), should have to be stewing away at all sorts of beastly things. No--if we are to do anything in the working line, let us have a paper like the subjoined, which, at any rate, will test our knowledge of what we have been doing during the holidays. You will see I have added the answers in the manner I think they should be given to secure full marks. Believe me, dear _Mr. Punch_, Yours sincerely, SMITH MINIMUS. 1. Give a short account of your Christmas dinner, distinguishing between the sustenance for the body, and the food for the mind. _Answer._ Whole affair stunning. Turkey and mince-pies first-rate. Champagne might have been drier--but, tol lol! Uncle BOB rather prosy, but his girls capital fun. Tips satisfactory. 2. What do you know of (1) the Pantomime at the Crystal Palace, (2) the World's Fair at the Agricultural Hall, and (3) the Panorama of Waterloo at Ashley Place? _Answer._ (1.) _Aladdin_ is the subject of the Palace Pantomime, which is not half bad. Mr. DAUBAN, as usual, capital, and the dresses quite Drury Lane form. Scenery, too, (especially Willow-pattern Plate) up to the mark, if not more so. (2.) World's Fair, at Agricultural Hall, rather mixed. Excellent menagerie--good old BLONDIN--but side-shows second-rate. Shakspearian Pantaloon in one of the latter seemed to be enjoying Christmas in the old-fashioned manner. (3.) Panorama of Waterloo, not only patriotic, but artistic. Regular good set-to between the Highlanders and French Cuirassiers. Skull in the Relics Department--pretty ornament for the Annual Banquet at the Surgeons' Hall. 3. Given a traveller from Charing Cross to St. Clement's Danes, describe the places of interest he would pass during the journey. _Answer._ I think the best way of flooring this question is to say what I should do if I made the voyage. Take a cup of chocolate at Aerated Bread Company, with two pennyworth of butter and cake; then to the Lowther Arcade, to get some toys for the young 'uns. Next to GATTI'S Restaurant for Lunch. Being a good day for _Matinees_, look in at TERRY'S for First Act of _Sweet Lavender_, then to the Opera Comique for Second Act of _Real Little Lord Fauntleroy_; lastly, wind up with a bit of _Our Flat_ at the Strand. Dine quietly at the Gaiety before seeing the _Dead Heart_ at the Lyceum, which will produce an appetite, to be appeased only at RULE'S, where you can take a light supper--then to bed. 4. Do you think that the Head Master of your school would derive any benefit from a closer association with the Metropolis? If you do, give your reason for such an opinion.