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and stoves ; heating, shading, and ventilating ; 

 washing, sulphurating, and fumigating; disbudding, 

 stopping, and pruning ; tying, training, and pack- 

 ing ; manures, solid and fluid ; soils, sands, and 

 peat ; tallies, ligneous, metallic, vitreous ; traps for 

 earwigs, birds, and mice ; tiffany, nets, and bunting ; 

 knives, saws, and scissors (nothing said about 

 tweezers) ; these, with five hundred other matters 

 for our conversation takes an unlimited range, from 

 a caterpillar to the Crystal Palace pass rapidly before 

 us, as we sit in conclave, " dreaming the happy hours 

 away." 



But for six nights in the year, at Christmastide, we 

 have special subjects for the evening's consideration. 

 Each member of " The Six of Spades " is called upon 

 either to deliver a lecture, tell a story, or sing a song, 

 in his turn. Here is our last programme, and a faith- 

 ful chronicle of its realization shall be given here- 

 after : 



'THE SIX OF SPADES. 'SPECIAL MEETINGS. 



