HUMORISTS OF THE PENCIL PHIL MAY [Illustration: colophon] LONDON: “PUNCH” OFFICE, 10, BOUVERIE STREET, E.C. [Illustration: PHIL MAY--By Himself.] Reproduced from “The History of Punch” by the kind permission of Mr. H. H. Spielmann, the ownder of the original drawings. [Illustration: “AND SHE OUGHT TO KNOW!” “That’s supposed to be a Portograph of Lady Solsbary. But, bless yer, it ain’t like her a bit in Private!”] [Illustration: PREACHING AND PRACTISING. _Lady Bountiful_ (_to old Parishioner_). “I hope you like our New Clergyman’s Sermons, Mrs. Brown?” _Mrs. Brown_: “Oh yes, my Lady, he do Preach quite beautiful; but then, you see, he don’t Practise. So when my poor old Man be troubled with the Rheumatics, I have to send for the Doctor in the Village, and it do come so very expensive!”] [Illustration: “PLEASE TO REMEMBER THE WAITER.” “All right, Sir! My fault!”] [Illustration: FOGGY WEATHER. “Has Mr. Smith been here?” “Yes; he was here about an hour ago.” “Was I with him?”] [Illustration: “Penny ’Addick.” “Finen?” “No; thick ’un!”] [Illustration: A NEGLECTED INDUSTRY. “’Ow are yer gettin’ on, Bill?” “Ain’t gettin’ on at all. I’m beginnin’ to think as the Publick doesn’t know what they wants!”] [Illustration: BLASÉ _Kitty_ (_reading a fairy tale_). “‘Once upon a time there was a frog----’” _Mabel_ (_interrupting_). “I bet it’s a Princess! Go on!”] [Illustration: CRUEL! _Lucullus Brown_ (_on hospitable purpose intent_). “Are you Dining anywhere to-morrow night?” _Jones_ (_not liking to absolutely “give himself away”_). “Let me see”--(_considers_)--“No; I’m not Dining anywhere to-morrow.” _Lucullus Brown_ (_seeing through the artifice_). “Um! Poor chap! How Hungry you will be!” [“_Exeunt,--severally_.”]] [Illustration: “THE COW WAS THE STAMP TO IMPRESS SUPERIOR BUTTER.” “’Arf a pound er Margarine, please; an’ Mother says will yer put the Cow on it cos she’s got Company!”] [Illustration: Q. E. D. “Wha’s up wi’ Sal?” “Ain’t yer ’erd? She’s Married agin!”] [Illustration: OF VITAL IMPORTANCE. “Hi, Billie! _’Ere’s_ Cheap Gloves!”] [Illustration: AN IMPORTANT ’JUNCTION. “You mind your Fader gets my Boots reddy by Four o’clock, ’cos I’m goin’ to a Party!”] [Illustration: AN INFORMAL INTRODUCTION. ’_Arry_ (_shouting across the street to his “Pal”_) “Hi! Bill! This is ’er!”] [Illustration: POLITICS AND GALLANTRY. _First ’Arry_: “Hay, wot’s this ’ere Rosebery a torkin’ abaat? Bless’d if he ain’t a goin’ to do awy with the Lords!” _Second ’Arry_: (_more of a Don Juan than a Politician_). “Do awy with the ’ole bloomin’ lot o’ Lords, if he likes, as long as he don’t do awy with the Lidies!”] [Illustration: THE PLUNGER. _First Boy_ _(much interested in the game of Buttons_). “’As ’e lost?”