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[Illustration: A MAN OF LETTERS]
[Illustration: MOST ASSURING.--_Brown (who is nervous about sanitary
matters, and detects something)._ "Hum"--(_sniffs_)--"surely--this
system of yours--these pipes now--do they communicate with your main
drain?" _Hairdresser (with cheery gusto)._ "Direct, sir!"
[_Tableau._
]
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[Illustration: _Gilded Johnny._ "How long will it take your bally cab to
get to Victoria?"
_Cabby._ "Oh, just about the same time as an ordinary keb, sir."]
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[Illustration: "NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND"
_Respectable Man._ "Dear me! I'm sorry to see this, Muggles! I heard
you'd left off drinking!"
_Disreputable Party._ "Sho I 'ave, shir--(_hic_)--jesh 'ish very
minute!"]
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[Illustration: OBVIOUS.--_Stingy Uncle (to impecunious Nephew)._ "Pay as
you go, my boy!--Pay as you go!"
_Nephew (suggestively)._ "But suppose I haven't any money to pay with,
uncle----"
_Uncle._ "Eh?--Well, then, don't go, you know--don't go!"
[_Exit hastily_.
]
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[Illustration: _Street Serio (singing)._ "Er--yew will think hov me and
love me has in dies hov long ago-o-o!"]
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[Illustration: SHEWERFIT & C^o.
ARTISTS IN HAIR
FACE MASSAGE
MANICURE
CHIROPODY
BLOOM OF CUPID
FOR THE COMPLEXION
]
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[Illustration: REAL GRATITUDE
_Tramp (to Chappie, who has just given him a shilling)._ "I 'ope as 'ow
some day, sir, _you_ may want a shillin', an' that I'll be able to give
it to yer!"]
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[Illustration: _Vendor of Cheap Music._ "'Ere y' are, lidy! _'I'll be
yer Sweet'art.'_ One penny!"]
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