[Illustration: _HOW TO MAKE A CHATELAINE A REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS._] [Illustration: _THE PIKE IS A VORACIOUS FISH, AND BITES VERY READILY IN THE WINTER MONTHS._ OLD GENTLEMAN IS _VERY_ FOND OF FISHING!!] [Illustration: _A NICE GAME AT BILLIARDS._ _Pretty Cousin._ "LET ME SEE, FREDERICK, I'M JUST EIGHTEEN TO YOUR LOVE?" _Frederick (who is always so ridiculous)._ "THAT IS PRECISELY THE STATE OF THE CASE, MY DEAREST GEORGINA." _Mamma (with severity)._ "COME, LUNCHEON IS QUITE READY."] [Illustration: _VERY FINE GENTLEMEN._ _Master of the House._ "NOW, PRAY WHAT IS IT YOU COMPLAIN OF? IS NOT A ROAST LEG OF MUTTON, WITH PLENTY OF PUDDING, VEGETABLES, AND BEER, A SUBSTANTIAL DINNER ENOUGH FOR YOU?" _Flunkey._ "OH! SUBSTANTIAL ENOUGH, NO DOUBT, SIR; BUT IT REALLY IS A _QUIZZEEN_ THAT--AW--ME AND THE OTHER GENTLEMEN HAS NOT BIN ACCUSTOMED TO. ITS VERY CORSE--VERY CORSE, INDEED, SIR!!"] [Illustration: _PLEASANT!_ _Nervous Gentleman._ "DON'T YOU THINK, ROBERT, GOING SO FAST DOWN HILL IS VERY LIKELY TO MAKE THE HORSE FALL?" _Robert._ "LOR BLESS YER--NO, SIR! I NEVER THROWED A OSS DOWN IN MY LIFE, 'XCEPT ONCE, AND THAT WAS ONE FROSTY MOONLIGHT NIGHT (JUST SUCH A NIGHT AS THIS IT WAS), AS I WAS A-DRIVIN' A GENT (AS MIGHT BE YOU) FROM THE STATION, WHEN I THROWED DOWN THIS WERRY OSS IN THIS WERRY IDENTICAL PLACE."] [Illustration: _A TIGHT FIT._ "YOUR BATH IS QUITE READY, MA'AM." "WELL BUT MY GOOD GIRL, I CAN'T GET INTO SUCH A BIT OF A THING AS THAT!"] [Illustration: _A PUZZLING ORDER._ "I'LL TROUBLE YOU TO MEASURE ME FOR A NEW PAIR OF BOOTS."] MR. BRIGGS'S PLEASURES OF HUNTING. [Illustration: No. XII. MR. BRIGGS, STIMULATED BY THE ACCOUNTS IN THE NEWSPAPERS OF THE DARING FEAT OF HORSEMANSHIP AT AYLESBURY, AND EXCITED BY MR. HAYCOCK'S CLARET, TRIES WHETHER HE ALSO CAN RIDE OVER A DINING-ROOM TABLE.] [Illustration: _NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS (?)_ _First Old Foozle._ "WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THE PAPER, SIR? THERE'S NOTHING IN IT." _Second Old Foozle._ "THEN WHAT THE DEVIL DID YOU KEEP IT SO LONG FOR?"] [Illustration: _A SUGGESTION._ _Driver._ "WHERE DID THE OLD GENT WANT TO GO TO, BILL?" _Conductor._ "VY, HE WANTED TO GO TO BLACKWALL IN A QUARTER OF AN HOUR." _Driver._ "OH! DID HE? THEN HE'D BETTER ORDER A BALLOON!!!"] [Illustration: _VALUABLE HINT._ ALWAYS BOLT THE DOOR OF YOUR MACHINE AFTER BATHING, OR YOU MAY BE SERVED AS POOR MR. BRIGGS WAS ONE DAY. HIS DISASTER IS REPRESENTED ABOVE.] [Illustration: _AN ARTFUL EXCUSE._ _Servant Maid._ "IF YOU PLEASE, MEM. COULD I GO OUT FOR HALF-AN-HOUR TO BUY A BIT OF RIBBIN, MEM?"] [Illustration: _MR. BRIGGS'S PLEASURES OF HUNTING, No. XIII. MR. BRIGGS HAS GONE TO THE EXHIBITION.--A BOY HOLDS HIS HORSE IN THE MEANTIME.] [Illustration: _A SKETCH OF CHARACTER BY PROFESSOR MILKANSOP, THE CELEBRATED GRAPHIOLOGIST._