_Whip._ "SHOULD THINK IT WAS; WE'VE BROKE UP T'OTHER THIS QUARTER OF AN HOUR!"] [Illustration: _LONDON HIGHLANDERS._ NOW WE DARE SAY YOU WONDER WHAT THE DEUCE THIS MEANS. THE FACT IS, THAT SMITH AND TOMKINS HAVE GOT A PLACE IN SCOTLAND THIS YEAR, AND THEY ARE DOING ALL THEY POSSIBLY CAN TO ACCUSTOM THEMSELVES TO DIZZY MOUNTAIN HEIGHTS, AND TO GET THEIR FACES AND LEGS THE PROPER TONE FOR THE NORTH.] [Illustration: _A HYGIENIC PLEASURE._ THE NEW AND DELIGHTFUL METHOD OF BRUSHING THE HAIR WITH MACHINERY.] [Illustration: _AFTER DUNDREARY._ _First Swell._ "A-A-WAW! WAW! WAW! HOW DID YOU LIKE HIM?" _Second Do._ "WAW-WAW-WAW.--NO FELLAW EVAW SAW SUCH A FELLAW. GWOSS CAWICATURE-WAW!"] [Illustration: _REAL INDEPENDENCE._ _Housemaid._ "JAMES! DON'T YOU HEAR YOUR LIBERY BELL A-RINGING?" _James._ "BOTHER THE LIBERY BELL! I AIN'T GOING TO ANSWER NO LIBERY BELLS--IT'S MY SUNDAY OUT, AND I'M AT CHURCH!"] [Illustration: _MAKING IT INTELLIGIBLE._ _Elderly Lady._ "BUT I MUST REALLY BEG THAT YOU WILL TELL ME YOUR FARE. I CANNOT BE SUPPOSED TO KNOW YOUR BUSINESS!" _Cabby._ "WELL, MUM--I DON'T THINK WE SHALL FALL HOUT. LET'S SAY, THREE BOB AND A KICK!"] [Illustration: _AT A RIFLE COMPETEE-TION IN THE NORTH._ _First Volunteer (to Second Volunteer on the Barrel)._ "MAY I TROUBLE YE TO MOVE FOR A BIT, FOR YE'RE JUST SITTING ON THE AMUNEE-TION!"] [Illustration: _FORCE OF HABIT.--(FOR FAMILY PEOPLE ONLY.)_ ADOLPHUS, GEORGE, AND LOUISA, ARE PLAYING IN KENSINGTON GARDENS--TO THEM THE FAMILY DOCTOR UNEXPECTEDLY. A. AND G. AND L. GO THROUGH THE EXPRESSIVE PANTOMIME OF PUTTING OUT THEIR TONGUES AS A MATTER OF COURSE.] [Illustration: _CUB-HUNTING._ WILKINSON WONDERS WHY THE DOOCE THEY CAN'T GO OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY.] [Illustration: _AN INTERESTING QUESTION._ _Young Swell (who has just received promise of a Commission in a Highland Regiment)._ "NOW, GIRLS, WILL THE KILT SUIT MY CALVES?" _Sisters (tittering)._ "REALLY, DEAR, YOU ARE TOO ABSURD!"] [Illustration: _WHAT WE COULD BEAR A GOOD DEAL OF!_] [Illustration: _"LOVE'S COURSE NEVER DID," YOU KNOW._ IT WAS VERY UNPLEASANT! BUT WHAT JENKYNNES HAD TO SAY TO HIS FLORA, WAS SAID UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES.] [Illustration: _FLUNKEIANA._ _John Thomas Gorgeous._ "I TELL YOU WHAT IT IS, COOK! I'M A'MOST WORE OUT WITH THEM LEGS O' MUTTON AND LEGS O' PORK, AND I THINK IT'S 'IGH TIME SOME NEW HANIMAL WAS INWENTED!"] [Illustration: _JUMPING TO A CONCLUSION_ _Inquiring Youth._ "PLEASE, MAMMA, WHY IS UNCLE'S HORSE CALLED A COB?" _Mamma._ "OH, MY DEAR! BECAUSE--BECAUSE--WHY BECAUSE HE HAS A THICK BODY AND SHORT LEGS!" _Inquiring Youth._ "WHAT, LIKE YOU, MAMMA?"] [Illustration: _THE CHANNEL PASSAGE._ MOSSOO AS HE APPEARED WHEN VIEWED THROUGH A TELESCOPE.] [Illustration: _RAILLERY._ _Driver (of the Herring Mould, to Party inclining to embonpoint)._ "HOLLO, BILL! HOW MANY SACKS O' PERTATERS AND HOGSHEADS O' SUGAR 'AVE YER GOT THERE?"] [Illustration: _THE SUBURBAN FLYMAN._