[Illustration: A MOMENT OF ENVY.
Boy (from Country Circus tent): “Hey fellers, run home an’ get de money
to come in even if yer have ter steal it! It’s immense! De clown’s
a-standin’ on his head an’ de baby elephant’s a-chuckin’ a pint o’ pop
corn into his ears! Don’t yer wish’ t yer wuz me?”]
[Illustration: HER FIRST RIDE.
“Oh, this is heavinkly, perfectly heavinkly!”]
[Illustration: A REGRET.
“Oh, Milly, what a pity it is that our folks is so healthy, an’ sich
long livers!”]
[Illustration: HER CONSERVATORY.]
[Illustration:
“Say, miss, don’t yer want ter fight dogs?”]
[Illustration:
“Say, boss, I’s got ter raise five cents for chewin’ gum, even if I has
to put me child in hock.”]
[Illustration: TEN CENTS’ WORTH.
Consuelo (reading): “The viz-count entered the apartment with a languid
h’air, and puffed his cigaroot with wiolence. ‘Air you alone?’ he
inkwired in a nongshallnot manner of the countiss. She rose from the
turkeys otterman with a diluted nostril, her eyes flashed with a fire
which almost consoomed their lids, and shakin’ her jewilled left hand
in the viz-count’s face, she gave a majestic sweep with her right foot
an’ lef’ the room.”