Part 22 (1/1)

[Ill.u.s.tration: SOCIAL AGONIES.--_Anxious Musician_ (_in a whisper_, _to Mrs. Lyon Hunter's butler_). ”Where's my cello?”

_Butler_ (_in stentorian tones_, _to the room_). ”Signor Weresmicello!”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: _Brown._ ”Pity Jones has lost--his figure!”

_Robinson._ ”Not _lost_, but gone before!”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: _Enthusiastic Briton_ (_to seedy American_, _who has been running down all our national monuments_). ”But even if our Houses of Parliament 'aren't in it,' as you say, with the Masonic Temple of Chicago, surely, sir, you will admit the Thames Embankment, for instance----”

_Seedy American._ ”Waal, _guess_ I don't think so durned much of your Thames Embankment, neither. It _rained_ all the blarmed time the night I _slep on it_.”]

A PROFESSIONAL VIEW OF THINGS.--Old Paynter never neglects any opportunity for advancing art. Every evening he has the cloth drawn.

BEVERAGE FOR A MUSICIAN.--Thorough ba.s.s.

POETICAL LICENCE.--A music-hall's.

TURF REFORM.--Mowing your lawn.

A MONSTER MEETING..--A giant and a dwarf.

THE SOAKER'S PARADISE.--Dropmore.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FINIS]

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