_Pretty Milliner (trying it on)._ "DO YOU THINK THIS WOULD SUIT THE LADY, SIR?" (_Little Tompkins begins to like shopping rather._)] [Illustration: _FASHIONS IN HAIR._ _Lady Swell._ "OH, YES, YOU KNOW! QUITE NEW! THE OLD NETS AND BEAVERS' TAILS GETTING AWFULLY COMMON, YOU KNOW!"] [Illustration: _A RACE FOR A FARE._ EXCITEMENT OF THE HANSOM CABBIES ON THE APPEARANCE OF A SWELL OUT OF THE SEASON.] [Illustration: _TURNING THE TABLES; OR, A LITTLE SAUCE FOR THE GANDER._ _Henrietta (who is joking, of course)._ "I'VE BEEN THINKING, DEAR CHARLES, THAT AS YOU REQUIRE CHANGE, IT WOULD BE SO NICE FOR YOU TO GO DOWN WITH THE CHILDREN TO SOME QUIET PLACE AT THE SEA-SIDE, WHILE I AND MRS. FRED SPANKER WENT TO BADEN-BADEN FOR A FEW WEEKS--EH--?----" [_This last being just what the wretch_ CHARLES _has been proposing to himself and_ FRED SPANKER _for the last month_.] [Illustration: _POOR FELLOW!_ _Frank_. "I KNOW THIS--I CAN'T STAND MANY MORE EVENING PARTIES, AND IF I DON'T GET INTO THE COUNTRY AND HAVE A FEW DAYS' HUNTING, I SHALL KNOCK UP!"] [Illustration: "_NOW I'M PAPA._"] [Illustration: _PUTTING IT BLANDLY._ _Jones (living in the plebeian locality of St. John's Wood)_. "I AM ALSO EXTREMELY PARTICULAR ABOUT MY WINDOWS--IF YOU ENTER MY SERVICE, I SHALL EXPECT YOU TO CLEAN THEM VERY CAREFULLY." _John Thomas (from Belgravia)._ "OH, OF COURSE, SIR! YOU CAN HAVE YOUR WINDOWS CLEANED IF YOU LIKE--BUT IN _BELGRAVIA_--WE PREFERS THEM DIRTY--IT'S CONSIDERED MORE _ARISTOCRATIC_!"] [Illustration: _THE UNEXPECTED ALWAYS HAPPENS._ THIS IS JONES, WHO THOUGHT TO SLIP DOWN BY THE RAIL EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND HAVE A GALLOP WITH THE FOX-HOUNDS. ON LOOKING OUT OF WINDOW, HE FINDS IT IS A CLEAR FROSTY MORNING. HE SEES A SMALL BOY SLIDING--ACTUALLY SLIDING--ON THE PAVEMENT OPPOSITE!! AND--DOESN'T HE HATE THAT BOY--AND DOESN'T HE SAY, IT IS A BEASTLY CLIMATE!!] [Illustration: _ON A PARISIAN BOULEVARD._ PAINFUL AND HUMILIATING CONTRAST, TO THE DISADVANTAGE OF OUR POOR LITTLE ENGLISH TRAVELLER, OF COURSE.] [Illustration: _ON THE RACE COURSE._ THE RESPECTABLE CAPITALIST WHO WILL BET A THOUSAND TO ONE AGAINST EVERYTHING, AND PAY IF HE LOSES--OF COURSE!] [Illustration: _A NICE GAME FOR TWO OR MORE._. "----FIXING HER EYES ON HIS, AND PLACING HER PRETTY LITTLE FOOT ON THE BALL, SHE SAID, 'NOW, THEN, I AM GOING TO CROQUET YOU!' AND CROQUET'D HE WAS COMPLETELY." (_From Rose to Emily_).] [Illustration: _MUSCULAR EDUCATION--THE PRIVATE TUTOR._. _Domestic._ "PROFESSOR MAULEY, MA'AM!"] [Illustration: _FOND DELUSION._ _First Tourist (going North)._ "HULLO, TOMPK----" _Second Ditto (ditto, ditto)._ "HSH--SH! CONFOUND IT, YOU'LL SPOIL ALL. THEY THINK IN THE TRAIN I'M A HIGHLAND CHIEF!"] [Illustration: _THE LATEST FASHION._ _Charles._ "SWEET STYLE OF TROWSER, GUS!" _Gus._ "YA-AS! AND SO DOOSED COMFORTABLE. THEY'RE CALLED PANTALONS À LA PEG-TOP!" Charles. "NO!--REALLY!"] [Illustration: _A SKETCH ON THE DOWNS._