LORD SALISBURY (sings). “I’ll harp wild war, aye, from sea to sea, Ere the Loyalists stoop to slavery!”] [Illustration: _July, 1893._ “Father William.” “You are old,” said the Youth; “one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balance that Eel on the end of your nose— What makes you so awfully clever?”] [Illustration: _August, 1893._ The French Wolf and the Siamese Lamb.] [Illustration: _September, 1893._ “Over the Hills and Far Away!”] [Illustration: _September, 1893._ The “Forlorn Hope.”] [Illustration: _January, 1894._ A Dirty Crossing. THE OLD LADY OF THREADNEEDLE STREET (loq.). “O dear, O dear! I wish I were out of this nasty mess!”] [Illustration: _February, 1894._ “Confidences.” JOHN BULL. “Did you ever see anything worse than my Navy?” JEAN CRAPAUD. “Yes—MINE!!”] [Illustration: _February, 1894._ “Pluck’d!” PARISH COUNCILS COCKATOO (sadly). “I’ve had a doose of a time of it!!!”] [Illustration: _March, 1894._ Unarming. “Unarm!—the long day’s task is done!”—_Antony and Cleopatra_, Act IV., Sc. 12.] [Illustration: _April, 1894._ Lemon-Squash. WILLIAM HARCOURT (the Barman). “Wonder if I can squeeze any more out of HIM?”] [Illustration: _July, 1894._ “Vive la République!” “The tear that brimmeth, blindeth not her eye, So fixed aloft it lowereth not to greet The writhing reptile bruised by her unfaltering feet!”] [Illustration: _September, 1894._ Jap the Giant-Killer.] [Illustration: _October, 1894._ “Vested Interests.” HOUSE OF LORDS CHARWOMAN. “Well! them Rogeberries, and ’Erbert Gladstings, and Haskwidges, and the rest on ’em may tork—and they may tork—but they h’aint turned HUS out yet!!”] [Illustration: _December, 1894._ “All’s Well!” BRITISH LION AND RUSSIAN BEAR (together). “What a pity we didn’t know each other before!”] [Illustration: _January, 1895._ The New Passenger.] [Illustration: _January, 1895._ “Who said ‘*Atrocities*’?” (After the Popular Engraving.) “Old as I am, my feelings have not been deadened in regard to matters of such a dreadful description.” _Mr. Gladstone’s Speech at Hawarden, December 29._ [Illustration: _March, 1895._ Silent! LITTLE KHEDIVE. “Tell me, great Sphinx—is Egypt for the Egyptians?”] [Illustration: _April, 1895._ An Easter ’Oliday. Duet (’ARCOURT and HARTHUR sing while being jolted). “La-a-zi-ly la-a-zi-ly! Drow-ow-ow-sily! Drow-ow-ow-sily!” etc.] [Illustration: _June, 1895._ “William! ahoy!” OPEN-MINDED WILLIAM (having come ashore from “The Stormy Petrel”). “Avast there, Messmates! The statesman who would lay his hands on a steeple-hatted female in distress—save in the way of ke-indness,” etc., etc. [_The “Messmates” “avast” accordingly_. [Illustration: _May, 1895._ The Old Crusaders!