And then you can't come!--But it scarcely avails To become of excuses a common concocter, For if "pressure of business" will keep you from Wales, Why go down to Cambridge to pose as a Doctor? Yes, think once again of your promise, and so Just alter your mind, it would be much too hard if You left unfulfilled your engagement to go And receive (in a casket) the Freedom of Cardiff. * * * * * NOTICE.--Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, will in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by a Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper. To this rule there will be no exception. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, October 18, 1890, by Various