A MILD DECEMBER 84 THE LAST DUKE 86 TO THE FOG 88 THE REMINISCENCES OF MR. JOHN DOBBS 89 PICKPOCKET POEMS 91 THE CIGARETTE 94 THE EARLY MILK-CART 95 THE COLLABORATORS 98 THE WEN CURE 101 THAT NEW-BORN BABE 103 THE BUTTON 106 A FAÇON DE PARLER 109 JACKSON 110 ANOTHER DANGER 112 AFTER THE ACT 114 THE RIGADOON 117 HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL 121 THE GERMAN GYM 124 TOTTIE 126 THE WELSHMAN IN LONDON 127 THE MAGISTRATE 129 THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE 131 THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN 132 THE PEOPLE’S PALACE 133 A CHARADE 135 A TRUE STORY 137 THE PIRATE ’BUS 138 THE WAR-CRY 141 THE “LANCET” 143 A TALE OF A TUB 148 THE COMIC KING 150 DAGONET DITTIES. London Day by Day. The smoke in vaster volumes rolls, The fever fiend takes larger tolls, And sin a fiercer grip of souls, In London day by day. Still Buggins builds on swampy site, And Eiffel houses block the light, And make a town of dreadful night Of London day by day. In fashion’s long and busy street, The outcast foreign harlots meet, While Robert smiles upon his beat, In London day by day. Still modest maidens’ cheeks are stung With foulest words from wanton’s tongue, And oaths yelled out with leathern lung, In London day by day.