[Illustration: “Tell your Fortune, Pretty Gentleman?”]
[Illustration: _Clerk of Booking-Office._ “There is
_no_ First Class by this Train, Sir.”
’_Arry_. “Then wot are _we_ going ter do, Bill?”]
[Illustration: “THE ANCHOR’S WEIGHED.”
(_Sketched on an Excursion Steamer._)]
[Illustration: SOCIAL EVOLUTION
_Tramp_ (_to benevolent but inquisitive Lady_). “Well you see, Mum, it
were like this. I were a ’Addick Smoker by profession; then I got ill,
and ’ad to go to the ’Orspital; then I sold Cats’ Meat; but some’ow or
other I got into _low water!_”]
[Illustration: A SKETCH NEAR PICCADILLY.]
[Illustration: THE MOTOR ’BUS.
_Fussy Old Gent_. “Hi! Stop! stop! I want to get down.”
_Driver_. “_I_ can’t stop the bloomin’ thing!!”]
[Illustration: “Poor likkle Doggie--hasn’t got any Fevvers on!”]
[Illustration: THE MOTOR ’BUS.
_Fussy Old Gent_. “Hi! Stop! stop! I want to get down.”
_Driver_. “I can’t stop the bloomin’ thing!!”]
[Illustration: SO VERY CONSIDERATE.
_Stout Coster_. “Where are yer goin’ to, Bill?”
_Bill_. “Inter the Country for a nice Drive, bein’ Bank ’Olidy.”
_Stout Coster_. “Same ’ere. I sy! don’t yer think we might swop Misseses
just for a few Hours? It would be so much kinder to the Hanimile!”]
[Illustration: _Sexton_ (_to a Divine, who was spending his holidays in
the country, and who, on the sudden illness of the Village Parson,
volunteered to take the duties_). “A worse Preacher would have done for
us, Sir, _but we couldn’t get one_!”]
[Illustration: ZOOLOGY.
“That’s a Porkypine, Sarah.”
“No, it ain’t, Bill. It’s a Orstridge!”]
[Illustration: SONGS AND THEIR SINGERS.]
[Illustration: 79 SONGS AND THEIR SINGERS.]
[Illustration: SONGS AND THEIR SINGERS.
“Oh, rest you merry Gentleman, May nothing you dismay!”]
[Illustration: “A STUDY IN EXPRESSION.”]