Did you ever see a cool fat woman in black in the dog-days?
Did you ever go to see Jack Sheppard without feeling a propensity to run
home and rob your mother?
Did you ever know an author who had not been particularly ill-used by
the booksellers?
Did you ever know fifty killed and fifty wounded by a railroad accident,
without the fifty who were not killed being congratulated by the
directors that they were only wounded?
Did you ever know a man who did not consider that he added ten years to
his life by reading the "Comic Almanack?"
[Illustration:
JULY—Long days and Long ears.
]