NOTES OF THE MONTH. 



my chap, you don't seem to be troubled with much custom at the 

 Bull's Head ; bring us a mug of beer." " Bull's Yead mug of 

 beer ? " muttered the servant, first looking at one customer, and then 

 at the other in evident astonishment. " Why, what's the chap staring 

 at? If you don't know your business, send up Mr. Resurgam." " Mr. 

 Resurgam!" echoed the man. "Yes; that's the name under the 

 sign, yeant it your master ? " bellowed the rustic. f( Hush"! " said 

 the servant, " my master's dead." " Well then, send us Mrs. Resur- 

 gam your missus." " My mistress is in London," said the footman, 

 who hardly knew whether to call " thieves" or " murder." " Well, 

 then, zounds, bring us up the ale," said the bumpkin in a rage. 

 " Ale ! " repeated the bewildered domestic ; " Where does the man 

 think that I'm to get ale ? Why, I am on a separate maintenance." 

 " What be that ? " " Why, board wages to be sure. What the 

 deuce do you take me for ? " " Take you for ! '' roared the rustic, 

 upsetting his chair " why, for a long-legged, woolly-headed im- 

 postor ; and if Resurgam was'nt dead, he'd deserve a good larrupping. 

 You and your Bull's Yead ! Catch 1 inside a Bull's Yead again ! 

 aye, or any other yead, what's kept by one of such a family. D n 

 the Resurgams, I say, root and branch ; Come along, Gekup ! " 



RED JACKETS MADE USEFUL. We cannot imagine what demon 

 can have perverted the tastes of those that have the ordering of such 

 things, to cause such a fancy exhibition of our Life Guards, as we are 

 occasionally favoured with. Figurez vons, gentle reader, in addition 

 to the usual attendance of six feet two of a Yorkshireman, with his 

 customary quantity of leather a sort of Kamtskatkan elevation of 

 bear-skin, to the height of about two feet six ; and you behold as 

 pretty an ursine specimen as ever issued from Icelandic den. Astro- 

 nomers may in future be independent of hazy nights, they may occa- 

 sionally gloat over the sublime beauties of Ursa Major, without the 

 aid of a telescope. 



We suspect, however, that in this age of retrenchment, the military 

 are about to be made profitable, and are accordingly dressed up as 

 Bogies, to be let out to frighten little children with. We are certain 

 of this, that if any violent outbreak of loyalty should seize the black- 

 guards, they will be in no want of grisly Guys for the 5th of No- 

 vember. 



There is an universal wailing amongst the cavalry, in consequence 

 of the late regulations, stripping them of their fancy costumes, and 

 plaistering them all with an indiscriminate coat of ft brickdust." 

 The poor gentlemen are crying fit to break their hearts. They swear 

 all manner of gentlemanlike oaths that they will never fight without 

 their jackets. Poor gentlemen ! we would not wish to inflame their 

 despair; but if they would take our advice, they would cut up their 

 bear-skins into boas, and their red jackets into rag mops, and thus 

 earn immortal renown amongst their countrywomen, instead of fright- 

 ening them into fits by acting the parts of monsters in military melo- 

 drames. 



