So the years pass on. She never learns that it is possible for a woman on certain occasions to be in the way of men, nor does her accuracy or her care with a gun increase. If she marries at all, she will marry some feeble creature who has no feeling for sport, and over whom she can lord it to her heart's content. But it is more probable that she will remain unwedded, and will develop eventually from a would-be harding-riding maiden, into a genuinely hard-featured old maid. * * * * * A MUSICAL POLE STAR. The Irish Polar Star Musical, yclept our Paddy REWSKI, gave his last "recital" at St. James's Hall, Thursday, November 27. Bedad, then, 'tis Misther Paddy REWSKI himself that is the broth of a boy entirely at the piano-forte, but, Begorra, he's better at the _piano_ than the _forte._ He gave us a nice mixture of HANDEL, BEETHOVEN, CHOPIN, LISZT, and then a neat little compo of his own, consisting of a charming theme, with mighty ingenious and beautiful variations, all his own, divil a less. Great success for Paddy REWSKI. The Irish Pole, or Pole-ished Irishman, has thoroughly mastered his art, but if he has learnt how to master tune he has not yet perfected himself in _keeping strict time_, as he took his seat at the piano just one quarter of an hour late. Paddy REWSKI, me bhoy, when next you give us a recital, remember that punctuality is the soul of business. _Au revoir_, Paddy REWSKI! Yours entirely, JIM KRO MESKI. * * * * * ADVICE GRATIS.--Go and see _London Assurance_, with "CHARLES our friend" in it, at the Criterion. It has, probably, never yet been put on the stage as it is _hic et nunc_. Well worth seeing as a _curio_. But what tin-pot nonsense is the Tally-ho speech of _Lady Grace Harkaway_. And yet it has always "gone," and _London Assurance_ itself, like the sly Reynard of the speech, has invariably shown good sport, and given a good run for the money. * * * * * MAD WAGGERY.--_The Chequers_ is not the name of a wayside inn, but of one of those modern inventions calculated to help to fill Colney Hatch. A Puzzle it is, and it can be done--at least so say FELTHAM & CO. Anyhow, they don't sell the solution, they only provide the mystery. * * * * * AN OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS NUMBER (_which is sure not to be forgotten_).--Number One. * * * * * A CAUTION TO SNAKES. [Illustration: Liberty, in a forest, flees a rattlesnake wearing an Indian headdress.] "There is, however, another opinion prevalent among the less educated which gives to the Rattle-snake the vindictive spirit of the North American Indian, and asserts that it adds a new joint to its rattle whenever it has slain a human being, thus bearing in its tail the fearful trophies of its prowess, just as the Indians wear the scalps of slain foes."--_Wood's Natural History_. * * * * *