Part 11 (1/2)

_Jones._ ”Then we'd better go and have a sandwich at once!”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: NOCTURNE IN THE OLD KENT ROAD]

”LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE WORLD.”--The elephant's.

THE WORST PLACE IN THIRSTY WEATHER.--Taplow.

INSCRIPTION FOR AN OLD CLOTHES SHOP.--”Nothing new.”

[Ill.u.s.tration: ”JUST A SONG AT TWILIGHT”]

(_As sung sweetly by a Public-House-Baritone_)

LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENT.--In the press--yesterday's tablecloth.

THE HEIGHT OF ECONOMY.--A ”screw” of tobacco.

[Ill.u.s.tration: A BROKEN MELODY

SCENE I.--_Street Singer._ ”I fear no foe in s.h.i.+ning ar----.”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: A BROKEN MELODY

SCENE II.--Enter policeman.]

THE QUICK GRUB STREET CO.

THE QUICK GRUB STREET CO. BEG TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEY HAVE OPENED AN ESTABLISHMENT FOR THE SUPPLY OF LITERATURE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.

_Every Editor should send for our Prices and compare them with those of other houses._

POETRY DEPARTMENT.

We employ experienced poets for the supply of garden verses, war songs, &c., and undertake to fill any order within twenty-four hours of its reaching us. Our Mr. Rhymeesi will be glad to wait upon parties requiring verse of any description, and, if the matter is at all urgent, to execute the order on the spot.

DRAMA DEPARTMENT.

Actor-managers before going elsewhere should give us a call. Our plays draw wherever they are presented, even if it is only bricks.

_Testimonial._--A manager writes: ”The play you kindly supplied, _The Blue Bloodhound of Bletchley_, is universally admitted to be _unlike anything ever before produced on the stage_.”