B. E. N. (Old Tom).--Méfiez-vous des veuves. Oh! what a fool I was to kill the goose that laid the golden egg! And such an egg! Le gamin de Londres. Tom’s Coffee-house.--E. W. 1656.--_Tuesday, November 17, 1868._ B. E. N.--(Le 10 Décembre).--Quand je contemple les étalages des gros marchands d’œufs, il me vient toujours l’idée qu’il neige de gros flocons d’or sur La Manche, et qu’un petit bateau français déploie toutes ses voiles pour les attraper.--E. W. 1657.--_Tuesday, December 1, 1868._ WHOOLY BEAR.--Ch--rlton. Danger. Write fully to “the General’s Friend” only. No. 21, or per Queen. 1658.--_Thursday, December 31, 1868._ ALL. at. B. one P. laid. up. men. waiting. long. grim. sorry. train. rite. B. speed. 1659.--_Monday, January 4, 1869._ THE WHITE DO . . . .--Oh, sir, please do come and see the Cross. 1660.--_Monday, January 4, 1869._ ONE.--Hpu 2 opuft--tpssy zpv xfsf tp jmm--ipqf rvjuf xfmm opx--mpoh x6z po kpvsofz--wfsz nvdi cfuufs--wfsz ljoc uipvhuit--gffm mpofmz. 1661.--_Saturday, January 9, 1869._ WHITE DOVE. 1662.--_Saturday, January 9, 1869._ TO S. H. H.--Susammne tuto yuyon fufruromum alullul. 1663.--_Thursday, January 21, 1869._ E. G. G. (en voyage).--Grenoble. Ten thousand times, Grenoble. Decimals are but as dust in the balance.--E. W. 1664.--_Friday, January 22, 1869._ E. G. G. (en voyage).--Pitch Decimals to little boys at school; the proper place for them; but pitch yourself into the “Hotel du Commerce,” at Grenoble; the proper place for you.--E. W. 1665.--_Monday, January 25, 1869._ E. G. G. (en voyage).--The present at Christmas, as I predicted, has turned out a fool’s paradise. You will find K. E. Y. at Grenoble; that will not turn out a fool’s paradise.--E. W. 1666.--_Wednesday, January 27, 1869._ ONE hpu uxp gppmt uijt ujnf yuyou tuare fuan suotulher.--S. H. H. 1667.--_Wednesday, February 3, 1869._ E. G. G. (en voyage).--K. E. Y. left Southampton on 20th Jan.; Caen on 23rd; took tea (avec deux œufs à la coque) at Austin’s Hotel, Paris, on 24th; is detained at St. Etienne; and calculates on being at Lyons on 4th inst., and Grenoble on the 10th (Hauptverbindungsstrassen).--E. W. 1668.--_Friday, February 5, 1869._ SOMERSET HOUSE, Dead-house, Strand, nine weeks since.--Cheshire Cheese. 1669.--_Tuesday, February 9, 1869._ E. G. G. (en voyage).--Where are you? Turn up and show yourself. K. E. Y. is in Grenoble, waiting for you, and has nothing better to do than to read Fielding’s “Tom Jones” and re-translate Disraeli’s two French Cooks in Tancred (Rosenfarbig).--E. W. 1670.--_Wednesday, February 17, 1869._ ONE.--Cmm opuft sfdfjwfe--hmbe zpv bsf rvjuf xfmm--buo--hppe ofxt gspn--jo upmfsbcmf hppe ifbmui--wfsz ljoe nipvhiut. 1671.--_Friday, February 19, 1869._ C. V. C.--Builders.--V. C. V.--Sands are shifting; what time is it? Rocks splitting, look to your foundation. 1672.--_Monday, February 22, 1869._