_Blanche._ "OH, IS THERE NOT, DEAR EMILY, SOMETHING, DELICIOUS ABOUT SPRING?--WE SHALL SOON HAVE ALL THE DEAR LITTLE BIRDS SINGING, AND THE BANKS AND THE GREEN FIELDS COVERED WITH BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS!" _Emily._ "OH, YES!--AND WITH IT WILL COME ALL THE NEW BONNET SHAPES FROM PARIS, AND THE LOVELY NEW PATTERNS FOR MORNING DRESSES!"] [Illustration: _A HAPPY NOTION._ _Johnny._ "OH, I SAY, GRANMA! S'POSE YOU PRETEND BEING A LITTLE PONY, AND I RIDE ABOUT ON YOUR BACK ROUND THE SQUARE!"--(_N.B. Granma feels the heat a good deal._)] [Illustration: _CRICKET.--CAPITAL PRACTICE FOR THE ROUND BOWLING OF THE PERIOD._] [Illustration: _A NICE BRACING DAY AT THE SEA-SIDE_.] [Illustration: _THE MERMAIDS' HAUNT._] [Illustration: _QUITE A NEW SENSATION._ _Swell_ (_on top of Omnibus_). "LOOK HERE, GUS, MY BOY! SUCH A CAPITAL I-DEAW! I RIDE UP AND DOWN FROM BAYSWATER TO THE WHITE CHAPEL AND EAT PERIWINKLES WITH A PIN!"] [Illustration: _SPORTING INTELLIGENCE._ MASTER OF FOX HOUNDS PUNCH TAKES COMMAND OF HIS FIELD IN DEFENCE OF HIS COUNTRY.] [Illustration: _A CAREFUL RIDER._ "A STILE, EH? AHEM! THAT'S A SORT OF THING THAT REQUIRES A GOOD DEAL OF JUDGMENT."] [Illustration: _AT ALDERSHOT--A RATHER DIFFICULT MANOEUVRE._ CLARA AND HARRIET, AND THE TWO NICE GIRLS WHO ARE STAYING WITH THEM, LED BY MAMMA, GET INTO COUSIN HERBERT'S HUT AND HAVE LUNCH.] [Illustration: _FANCY SKETCH._ PORTRAIT OF THE OLD PARTY WHO RATHER LIKES ORGAN-GRINDING.] [Illustration: _AN EASY MATTER._ _Bathing Woman._ "TEACH YER TO SWIM? LOR BLESS YER, MY LOVE, WHY, OF COURSE I CAN!"] [Illustration: _A COMPLACENT BELIEF._ _Old Aunt._ "WELL, MY LOVE--SO YOU'VE GOT A HAT LIKE MINE, I SEE."] [Illustration: _A SYREN._] [Illustration: _AT THE SEA-SIDE._ _Augustus._ "ISN'T IT JOLLY, FRANK, BEING DOWN HERE FOR THE HOLIDAYS?" _Incipient Swell._ "H'M! PRETTY WELL FOR THAT. I CONFESS I MISS THE GAIETY OF TOWN."] [Illustration: _MR. BRIGGS TRIES HIS SHOOTING PONY._] [Illustration: _CAMP LIFE--A NIGHT SURPRISE._] [Illustration: _CAMP LIFE--A DAY SURPRISE._] [Illustration: _THE CURRENCY QUESTION; OR, THE STOCK EXCHANGE OUT FOR THE DAY._ _Jones._ "I SAY, BROWN, THINGS ARE DEUCED BAD IN THE CITY." _Brown._ "THEN I'M DEUCED GLAD I'M AT EPSOM!"] [Illustration: END OF VOL. II.] LONDON: BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Leech