CHAPTER IV.

BAGGING THE GAME.

This should always be done in the very best style.  First-class churches, and two or three parsons, can generally bag you and the bird properly.  Notice of the bagging should always be given to your friends, and the bag should be large enough to hold not only the bird, but also any first-class houses, greenbacks, or silver-ware which may be furnished by the friends of the bird.  They say that BROWN, of Grace Church, understands all the details of this kind of bagging.  The game should be elegantly dressed for the occasion, at the expense of the parent birds, of course.  You must take care that the bag is so tied that the bird cannot escape, though they do say that, if you go to the neighborhood of Chicago, the bird will escape, even if the bag is fastened in the most careful manner.  I advise you, therefore, not to emigrate in that direction.

By the aid of the foregoing lessons any man should be enabled to catch a bird which, in the course of a month, he will wish he had left alone.

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Military Interference.

The Republicans insist that General GRANT did not intend to interfere with the last New York election.  They had better “tell that to the Marines.”

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“The Absorption of Germany.”

To realize the meaning of the above phrase, which one hears so often now, one need only explore the Bowery of an evening.  He will observe that the absorption of Germany is immense.

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Sporting Intelligence.

The great Shakespearian artist, Mr. JAMES MACE, plays two pieces in one evening; he plays “As You Like It,” and also plays Cast.

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Not to be Wondered at.

OLIVER DYER, the prototype of “the wickedest man in New York,” is getting anxious about “How to get to Heaven.”

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Remarkable Feat.

The authorities of Lyons have succeeded in doing with GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN that which people in this country have tried in vain.  They have shut him up.

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A Sure Sign of the Holidays.

When the voice of the turkey is heard in the land.

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The Grant Tartan.

A thousand-dollar check.

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THE WINTER FASHIONS.

Owing to the war in France, which has deprived this country of the usual Paris fashions, it has been feared that no clothes would be worn by the fashionable world this winter; but, fortunately, Mr. PUNCHINELLO is enabled to announce that such will not be the case.  Garments of various kinds will be in vogue, and the following descriptions of some of them may prove useful and interesting to the beau monde:—­