[Illustration: _AN X-CELLENT NOTION._ PROPOSED NEW UNIFORM FOR THE POLICE.] [Illustration: _NOT SO BAD AS HE SEEMS._ _Country Friend (apropos of Cockney Ditto)._ "UPON MY WORD, THOMAS, IF I THOUGHT HE HAD BEEN SO DANGEROUS, I WOULDN'T HAVE BROUGHT HIM OUT." _Keeper._ "WELL, HE DU SHOOT A LEETLE WILD, SIR--BUT IT AIN'T O' MUCH CONSEQUENCE--I LOAD FOR UN--AND I DON'T PUT NO SHOT IN!"] [Illustration: _CONFIRMED BACHELOR._ _Master G. O'Rilla._ "DEAW! HOW SHOCKING! THERE'S ANOTHER GOOD FELLAH DONE FOR!" _Cousins._ "WHY, WHAT HAS HAPPENED, GUS?" _Gus._ "HAPPENED! WHY, CHARLEY BAGSHOT _GONE MARRIED_!"] [Illustration: _NOT SO EASY._ _Voices in the Wood._ "NOW THEN, GET ON IN FRONT!"] [Illustration: _THE BEACH.--A SKETCH FOR WARM WEATHER._] [Illustration: _WALTZING OF THE PERIOD._ THE LADY HONORIA D----, AS SHE APPEARED TAKING LEAVE OF HER MAMMA, PREVIOUS TO GOING INTO ACTION! THE LADY HONORIA AS SHE APPEARED WHEN THE ENGAGEMENT WAS OVER!] [Illustration: _GOING THROUGH THE ALPHABET._ WITH A PARDONABLE VANITY, TOMKINS, WHO HAS JUST JOINED HIS RIFLE CORPS, INVITES ARABELLA (TO WHOM HE IS ENGAGED) AND HER SISTER TO SEE HIM DRILLED. EVERYTHING MUST HAVE A BEGINNING, AND HE IS PUT THROUGH THE "GOOSE STEP" BEFORE THE NOT-ADMIRING EYES OF HIS DARLING!] [Illustration: _DECIDEDLY._ _Small Swell._ "MOST 'BSURD ROW THEY'RE KICKING UP ABOUT EQUESTRIANS IN KENSINGTON GARDENS! WHY THEY OUGHT TO BE DEUCED GLAD OF ANYTHING THAT ADDS TO THE BEAUTY OF THE PLACE--MY 'PINION."] [Illustration: _ANOTHER PRETTY LITTLE AMERICANISM._ _Englishman (to Fair New-Yorker)._ "MAY I HAVE THE PLEASURE OF DANCING WITH YOU!" _Darling._ "I GUESS YOU MAY--FOR I CALC'LATE THAT IF I SIT MUCH LONGER HERE, _I SHALL BE TAKING ROOT_!"] [Illustration: _THE COSTERMONGER AS HE IS._ _Coster (with hideous yell)_. "YA! HO!--CAULIFLOWERS--HO!"] _AND_ [Illustration: _AS HE MIGHT BE._ _Coster (blandly and politely)._ "CAULIFLOWER, MA'AM. YES, MA'AM! IS THERE ANY OTHER ARTICLE?"] [Illustration: _THE ENGAGED ONES._ "LAW! CHARLES! ISN'T THERE A GREAT BLACK ON MY NOSE?"] [Illustration: _A SUBJECT FOR CHARITY._ FEARFUL POSITION OF AN OLD LADY FROM THE COUNTRY, WHOM LOW IMPUDENT LITTLE BOYS WILL TUMBLE BEFORE ALL THE WAY FROM THE STRAND TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE.] [Illustration: _A PRELIMINARY CANTER._ "COME, TOMPKINS, YOU'VE BEEN TITTUPPING UP AND DOWN THE PARADE FOR THE LAST HOUR AND FORTY MINUTES. IF YOU'RE GOING OUT HUNTING, YOU HAD BETTER GO."] [Illustration: _BILLIARDS._ _Frank (to Captain Brother, poking him in the ribs with a cue)._ "OH, COME, TOM, THAT WAS A FLUKE--A BEASTLY FLUKE!" (_N.B. The Captain having scored very neatly._)] [Illustration: _SERVANTGALISM, &c._--No. XV. _Lady._ "INDEED, SMITH, I CANNOT BEAR THE LAUGHING AND NOISE DOWNSTAIRS--IT IS QUITE INTOLERABLE!" _Cook._ "WELL, MAM! SOMETHING MUST BE DONE TO DEADEN THE SOUND; FOR THE NOISE UP-STAIRS IS EQUALLY ANNOYING TO HUS!"] [Illustration: _GROUNDLESS ALARM._