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FUN OFFICE, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1872.

THE EMOTIONS.

OF all the funny notions

That frolicsome imagination shapes,

To think a famous lecturer on apes,

Should set himself to studying Emotions;

And their Expression, by the features

Or other lineaments of living creatures!

With dogs the sign of pleasure that prevails

Is wagging tails:—

But what expression is in vogue with whales?

The monkey grins, but then he cannot laugh

But the giraffe How can he show what joys him or what ails?

But, ah, my DARWIN, does it not perplex,

Puzzle and vex,

To trace, with even your intense devotion,

The various expressions of emotion

Employed by what we call the gentle sex?

We think we see a blush —

Why, tush!

'Tis but a flush

Obtainable with powder and a brush,

Or coloured lotion!

And so we fail to trace

In woman's face

The real, plain expression of Emotion!