THE WANDERINGS OF MRS. PIPE AND FAMILY TO VIEW THE CRYSTAL PALACE
AND THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

MRS. PIPE'S ANNOUNCEMENT.

"PIPE, I've been your wife for twenty years, and ain't had one 'holiday. I've done nothing but work, work, from morning till night; but I now feels it a dooty as Iowes my family and Her blessed Majesty, to go and see the 'Cristial Palace';" and she struck the table with so much force, that the breakfast equipage danced at her loyalty and maternal feeling.

Mr. Pipe started from a reverie to his feet. He had but one reverie,—and that was on China. Mr. P. had been in the nautical line, and would be so again, but was generally waiting for a ship.

"Are you mad?" was the conjugal reply of Mr. P., looking apoplectic, from the shock of the an-

nouncement, and the determined look of gaiety in his wife's face, attended by the universal glee of his different-sized offspring. "Well, do as you like; only I should be glad to know where the cash is to come from for this here grand go off o' yourn. Why, it would take a fortun' for all our family to see this here bit o' glass; and I can tell you one thing, missis, you don't catch me trusting my neck to that 'ere jimcrack. Besides, what is it arter seeing the great wall o' China?"

But he was cut short in his travels by Mrs. P. informing him that she had "heard of the great wall of Cheyne till she was sick of it;" and a dismal yell from one of his youthful offspring, whom