"PLEASE, SIR, HERE'S THE PRINTER'S BOY CALLED AGAIN." "OH, BOTHER! SAY I'M BUSY."] [Illustration: _WHICH IS BEST?_ _Matilda._ "I WONDER, MARIA, YOU DON'T PUT AUGUSTUS INTO JACKETS AND TROWSERS; REALLY HE GROWS TOO TALL FOR THAT KIND OF COSTUME." _Maria._ "PERHAPS, MATILDA, YOU WILL BE KIND ENOUGH TO ALLOW ME TO DRESS MY OWN CHILD IN MY OWN WAY. I AM MUCH OBLIGED TO YOU ALL THE SAME. _I_ DON'T LIKE THE PRACTICE _SOME_ PEOPLE HAVE OF DRESSING LITTLE BOYS LIKE LITTLE MEN!!!"] [Illustration: _WHISKERANDOS._ "THERE, MY BOY! IT ISN'T EVERYBODY WHO COULD DO THAT!"] [Illustration: _A DAY'S PLEASURE._ SKETCH OF A "LORD OF THE CREATION" ON HIS RETURN FROM THE DERBY.] [Illustration: _YACHTING._ SPARE BED (BERTH, WE MEAN) ON BOARD OUR FRIEND'S SCHOONER.] [Illustration: _A VERY YOUNG MARINER._] [Illustration: _A YOUNG MARINER._] [Illustration: _AN ANCIENT MARINER._] [Illustration: _A GOOD SIZED FLOAT._ _Little Gent (with undue familiarity)._ "I SAY, MY OLD COCKYWAX,--I S'POSE THE FISH AIN'T VERY LARGE OFF RAMSGIT--ARE THEY?" _Fisherman._ "WELL! I SHOULDN'T SAY AS THEY WAS WERRY SMALL--WHEN WE'RE OBLIGED TO USE SICH FLOATS AS THEM TO OUR FISHIN' TACKLE! MY YOUNG COCKYWAX!" (_Gent is shut up._)] [Illustration: _A SPORTING GENT PRACTISING FOR THE HUNTING SEASON._] [Illustration: _A CURIOUS PERSON._] [Illustration: _MICHAELMAS DAY. THE CHEAP TAILOR'S GOOSE PROVIDES HIMSELF WITH A SHOOTING JACKET AND VEST._] [Illustration: _"MUSIC HATH CHARMS," &C._] [Illustration: _THE STAG AT BAY._] [Illustration: _CLOSE OF THE SEASON--THE LONDON FOOTMAN EXHAUSTED._] [Illustration: _BEGINNING FIRES FOR THE WINTER--SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE CHIMNEY._ _Sweep (loq.)._ "THIS CHIMLE ALWAYS WAS A BAD UN TO SMOKE, SIR; THE PARTY AS LIVED HERE BEFORE YOU CAME HAD A DEAL OF TROUBLE WITH IT."] [Illustration: _AN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ON AN EXCURSION._] [Illustration: _AMUSEMENT FOR A RAINY DAY._ _Clara._ "I SAY, GUS--COME HERE! STAND STILL AND OPEN YOUR MOUTH, AND WE'LL DROP CHOCOLATE INTO IT. WE'VE NOTHING TO DO!" _GUS._ "ALL RIGHT, GIRLS! FIRE AWAY!" [_After an hour of this interesting occupation, Gus retires slightly uncomfortable._] [Illustration: _POTICHOMANIA (THE ART OF DECORATING GLASS)_, AS CARRIED OUT BY MASTER TOM DURING THE EASTER HOLIDAYS.] INDEX. PORTRAIT OF JOHN LEECH, _Frontispiece._ YEAR PAGE ADVANTAGES of the new Postal arrangements 1845 272 Advice Gratis 1852 62 Affair of Importance, An 1852 12 After the Pantomime 1853 70 Aged Juvenile, An 1846 223 Aggravating--Rather 1850 151 Agony Column 1849 262