QUEERING HIS PITCH. WHAT OUR ARTIST POSER HAS TO PUT UP WITH.]

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[Illustration: _Fish Hawker (reading a book of Natural History he has

bought for his son's birthday)._ "LIZ, I BIN SWINDLED. I'VE READ ALL

FROO THE INDEX OF FISHES, AN' KIPPERS AIN'T EVEN MENTIONED."]

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