_First Juvenile._ "THAT'S A PRETTY GIRL TALKING TO YOUNG ALGERNON BINKS!" _Second Juvenile._ "HM--TOL-LOL! YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HER SOME SEASONS AGO!"] [Illustration: _TOO BAD._ _Rude Boy._ "AH! HERE'S THE P'LEECE A-COMIN'; WON'T YOU CATCH IT FOR SLIDING ON THE PAVEMENT!"] [Illustration: _OLD MR. JONES AS HE APPEARED WHEN ASKED FOR THE TWENTIETH TIME IF HE WOULD HAVE HIS DOOR DONE._] [Illustration: _THE THEATRE OF WAR._ A PRIVATE BOX FOR ENGLAND'S DEAR BOYS ON FOREIGN SERVICE.] [Illustration: _A KINDLY OFFER._ _Skate Proprietor_ (_to Spectator with wooden leg_). "'AVE A PAIR ON, SIR!--AX YER PARDIN, SIR--DIDN'T TWIG YER MISFORTIN. I'VE A HODD 'UN YOU CAN 'AVE, SIR!"] [Illustration: _DISTRESSING RESULT OF EATING TURKEY DAY AFTER DAY._ THE POOR OLD PARTY HAS COME OUT ALL OVER FEATHERS.] [Illustration: _GLORIOUS NEWS FOR THE BOYS._ _Billy Wilkins._ "HI! LOOK HERE! COME! SUCH A LARK! HERE'S A PERLICEMAN FELL ON A SLIDE!"] [Illustration: _THE THAW AND THE STREETS!_ TOMKINS, WHO HAS JUST PAID HIS RATE FOR PAVING, CLEANSING, &C., GOES FOR A WALK IN HIS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD. HE IS, OF COURSE, MUCH GRATIFIED AT THE WAY IN WHICH THE CLEANSING PART OF THE BUSINESS IS MANAGED.] [Illustration: _DELICIOUS._ _Party in Bed._ "HEY! HOLLO! WHO'S THAT?" _Domestic._ "IF YOU PLEASE, SIR, IT'S SEVEN O'CLOCK, SIR! YOUR SHOWER-BATH IS QUITE READY. I'VE JUST BROKEN THE ICE, SIR!"] [Illustration: _SYMPTOMS OF MASQUERADING._ _Better-Half_ (_loq._). "IS THIS WHAT YOU CALL SITTING UP WITH A SICK FRIEND, MR. WILKINS?"] [Illustration: _THE NURSERY FOUR-IN-HAND CLUB.--THE FIRST MEET OF THE SEASON._ _Master Robert_ (_loq._). "HERE, JAMES, JUST STAND BY THAT BAY FILLY.--SHE'S RATHER FRESH THIS MORNING!"] [Illustration: _THE OPERA._ _Door-Keeper._ "BEG YOUR PARDON, SIR--BUT YOU MUST, INDEED, SIR, BE IN FULL DRESS!" _Snob_ (_excited_). "FULL DRESS!! WHY, WHAT DO YER CALL THIS?"] [Illustration: _THE DAY AFTER THE JUVENILE PARTY.--AWFUL APPEARANCE OF THE DOCTOR._] [Illustration: _INNOCENT MIRTH--THE SLIDE ON THE PAVEMENT._] [Illustration: _DELIGHTFUL._ "OH! HERE'S A JOLLY SLEDGE!"] [Illustration: _HAVING A PAIR ON!_ _Skater._ "HI!--HOLLO!--WHAT ARE YOU ABOUT?--IT'S GOING INTO MY FOOT!" _Skate Proprietor._ "NEVER MIND, SIR!--BETTER 'AV 'EM ON FIRM!"] [Illustration: _A GOOD OLD COMIC CLOWN._] [Illustration: _STAGE FRIGHT._ "OH, JOEY! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?"] [Illustration: _A DECEIVER._ "IT'S QUITE TRUE, MUM!"] [Illustration: _SAME OLD GAME._] [Illustration: _AN OLD JOE._ _Clown_ (_loq._). "PRETTY CREECHUR!"] [Illustration: _DRESS CIRCLE AT PUNCH AND JUDY._] [Illustration: _EAGER APPLICANTS._ "WANT YOUR DOOR DONE, MUM?"] [Illustration: _RETURN FROM A SUBURBAN PARTY._ _Flyman._ "WERRY SORRY, MUM, I'M SURE, MUM--BUT THE OSS AIN'T ROUGHED, AND HE CAN'T GO A STEP FURDER!"] MR. BRIGGS'S PLEASURES OF FISHING. [Illustration: No. X. MR. B. AS HE APPEARED FROM SIX IN THE MORNING UNTIL THREE IN THE AFTERNOON, WHEN----] [Illustration: No. XI.