WHAT CAPITAL FUN IT IS SETTING TRIMMERS FOR JACK, AND ROWING AFTER THEM UNDER A BURNING SUN!--BUT WHY DOES NOT TOM HAUL UP THE ANCHOR?] [Illustration: _THE WILL AND THE WAY._ MRS. POTTLES SEES NO REASON WHY SHE SHOULDN'T GO OUT ON THE ROOF OF HER HOUSE TO SEE THE FIREWORKS.] [Illustration: _PREJUDICE._ _Boy._ "OH! LOOK 'ERE, BILL! 'ERE'S A BLOATED HARISTOCRAT. THERE'S NO ONE LOOKING. LET'S PUNCH HIS 'ED!"] [Illustration: _THE COMET._ _Master Tom._ "I SAY, GRAN'MA, THIS IS A SAD JOB ABOUT THE COMET!" _Gran'ma._ "GOOD GRACIOUS! WHAT'S THE MATTER?" _Master Tom._ "WHY, HERE'S A LETTER IN THE PAPER SAYS,--'_The particles of the tail, if thrown out from the head, having only, as before, the same rate of orbital motion as the head, and having larger and larger orbits to describe, the further they are removed from the head, will necessarily fall further and further behind as they recede from the comet, and thus form a curve independently of a resisting medium_;' AND THAT, '_the panic-allaying doctrine of the tenuity of cometic nuclei cannot be maintained from the mere fact of their translucency_.'"] [Illustration: _VIVE LE SPORT!_ _English Friend_ (_to Foreigner of distinction_). "THE FOX HAS BROKE, AND _GONE AWAY_!" _Foreigner of distinction_ (_who has been galloping about the rides to his immense satisfaction_). "AHA! HE IS BROKEN, AND _GONE AVAY_! WHAT A PITY! ZEN I SUPPOSE IT IS ALL OVARE AND WE MUST GO HOME!"] [Illustration: _TAKING FIRST PLACE._ _Boy from School._ "GATE NAILED, OLD BOY! NEVER MIND! I'LL MAKE A GAP FOR YOU!"] [Illustration: _CANDID._ _Cook._ "FINE DAY, MR. CHALKS!" _Mr. Chalks._ "YES, COOKEY, IT'S A VERY FINE DAY! BUT IF WE HAVEN'T SOME RAIN SOON, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE SHALL DO FOR =MILK=!"] [Illustration: _FORTUNATE FELLOWS._ _Stalwart Briton._ "I TELL YER WHAT, BILL! WE OUGHT TO BE VERY THANKFUL WE'RE ENGLISHMEN, FOR WHETHER IT'S THE CLIMATE, OR WHETHER IT'S THEIR HABITS, JUST SEE HOW THOSE AMERICANS ARE DEGENERATING!"] [Illustration: _NOT A PERSONAL ALLUSION._ _Stout Gent._ "DEAR! DEAR! SO HE HAS FORMED AN ATTACHMENT THAT YOU DON'T APPROVE OF! AH! WELL, THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING. DEPEND UPON IT, MA'AM, THERE'S A _SKELETON SOMEWHERE IN EVERY HOUSE_!"] [Illustration: _RETURNING FROM THE DERBY._ "AT LENGTH HE PRESENTED HIMSELF BUT IN SUCH A STATE THAT WE WERE OBLIGED TO TIE HIM ON THE BOX, AND I HAD TO RIDE HOME."--_Extract from Letter to particular Friend._] [Illustration: _AT EPSOM._ _Excited Gentleman._ "THEY'RE OFF!--THEY'RE OFF!" _Quiet Lady._ "ARE THEY, DEAR? WON'T YOU HAVE SOME PIE?"] [Illustration: _AN ABSENTEE._ "WHY ARE YOU ON THE CROSSING, JAMES? IS YOUR FATHER ILL?" "NO. HE'S DROVE MOTHER DOWN TO HASCOT."] [Illustration: _SELF-EXAMINATION._ _Party_ (_slightly influenced_). "QUESHION ISH! AM I FIT TO GO INTODRAWINGROOM? LETSH SHEE!--I CAN SHAY GLORIUSH CONSHYSHUSN!--HAVE SEEN BRISH INSHYCHUSION--ALL THAT SORTOTHING--THATLEDO--HERE GOSH!"] [Illustration: _THE MOUSTACHE MOVEMENT._