_"A golden-headed umbrella, fresh as a rose."_ 15 _"Miss Jessimina Mankletow."_ 25 _"I instantaneously endured the total upset!"_ 37 _"With a large, stout constable."_ 47 _"Was accosted by a polite, agreeable stranger."_ 51 _"A weedy, tall male gentleman."_ 61 _"A beaming simper of indescribable suavity."_ 81 _"I became once more the silent tomb."_ 91 _"In garbage of unparagoned shabbiness."_ 99 _"The spectators saluted me with shouts of joy as the returned Shahzadar."_ 107 _"Some haughty masculine might insult her under my very nose."_ 115 _"It was here," I said, reverently, "that the swan of Avon was hatched!"_ 129 _"Ascended his bicycle with a waggish winkle in his eye."_ 141 _"Pitch it strong, my respectable Sir!"_ 151 _"Huzza! Tol-de-rol-loll!"_ 157 _"A royal command from the Queen-Empress."_ 169 _"Would be greatly improved by the simple addition of some knee-caps."_ 179 _"I am addressed by an underbred street-urchin as a 'Blooming Blacky!'"_ 187 _"Of incredible bashfulness and bucolical appearance."_ 191 _"I presented my trophy and treasure-trove to the fairylike Miss Wee-Wee."_ 203 _"Whether he had wha-haed wi' hon'ble Wallace?"_ 209 _Baboo Chuckerbutty Ram._ 219 _"Fresh as a daisy, and fine as a carrot fresh scraped."_ 227 _Mr Justice Honeygall._ 237 _Witherington, Q.C._ 247 _"Jabberjee's face gradually lengthens."_ 261 The text and illustrations of this book are reproduced by kind permission of the Proprietors of _Punch_. [Illustration: _Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A._] INTRODUCTORY LETTER FROM BABOO JABBERJEE. _To the Hon'ble ---- Punch._ VENERABLE AND LUDICROUS SIR.--Permit me most respectfully to bring beneath your notice a proposal which I serenely anticipate will turn up trumps under the fructifying sunshine of your esteemed approbation. Sir, I am an able B.A. of a respectable Indian University, now in this country for purposes of being crammed through Inns of Court and Law Exam., and rendering myself a completely fledged Pleader or Barrister in the Native Bar of the High Court.