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[Illustration: _Swell (who won't be done)._ "H 'yars my kyard if
you'd--ah--like to summon me."
_Cabby (who has pulled up and heard the dispute)._ "Don't you take it,
Bill. It's his ticket o' leave!"]
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[Illustration: A LABOUR OF LOVE!
_Benevolent Lady (who has with infinite trouble organised a country
excursion for some over-worked London dressmakers)._ "Then mind you're
at the station at nine to-morrow, Eliza. I do hope it won't rain!"
"_Rine_, miss! I 'owp not, to be sure! The country's bad enough when
it's _foine_, yn't it, miss?"]
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[Illustration: ON EPSOM DOWNS
"Get onto 'is neck, like me, Halfred, an' they'll take us for jockeys!"]
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[Illustration: _Little Tompkins._ "That fellow Brown tried to stuff me
up with some of his travellers' tales the other day. Talked about his
trip to Italy, and the waving fields of macaroni, but he didn't catch
me, you know. They _don't_ wave!"]
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[Illustration: GUILE.
_Old Lady._ "You know the 'Royal Oak'? Well, you turn to the right, past
the 'Jolly Gardener,' till you come to the 'Red Lion'----"
_Artful Cabby._ "O, don't tell me the 'ouses, mum! Name some o' the
churches, and then I shall know where I am!!"
[_Asks, and gets, an exorbitant fare without a murmur._
]
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