Part 16 (1/2)

Of an ancient buck at a modern burlesque]

[Ill.u.s.tration: COLOURED CLERGY

(_A Memory of St. James's Hall_)

_Uncle_ (_can't see so well as he did, and a little hard of hearing_).

”Who do you say they are, my dear!--Christian ministers? 'Ncom'ly kind of 'em to give a concert, to be sure! For a charitable purpose, I've no doubt, my dear!!”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: SUPEREROGATION

_Country Maid_ (_having first seen ”missus” and the children into a cab_). ”O, coachman, do you know the princ.i.p.al entrance to Drury Lane Theat----?”

_Crabbed Old Cabby_ (_with expression of ineffable contempt_). ”Do I know! Kim aup----!”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: _Jones_ (_alluding to the song_). ”Not bad; but I think the girl might have put a little more _spirit_ into it with advantage.”

_Lus.h.i.+ngton._ ”Jush 't I was thinkin'. Lesh avanother!”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: AFTER THE THEATRICALS.--”What on earth made you tell that appalling little cad that he ought to have trod the boards of ancient Greece! You surely didn't really admire his acting?” ”Oh no! But, you know, the Greek actors used to wear masks!”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: ”Jemmy! What's a stall at the hopera?”

”Well, I can't say, not for certain; but I suppose it's where they sells the happles, horanges, ginger-beer, and biskits.”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: ”Please, sir! give us your ticket if you aint agoin' in again.”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: A DOMESTIC DRAMA

”Admit two to the boxes.”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: PROGRESS

_Young Rustic._ ”Gran'fa'r, who was Shylock?”

_Senior_ (_after a pause_). ”Lauk a' mussy, bo', yeou goo to Sunday skewl, and don't know that!”]

”HAMLET” A LA SAUCE DUMB-CRAMBO

[Ill.u.s.tration: ”Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt!”--Act I., Sc. 2.]