[Illustration: MEETING OF THE OLD AND NEW PEERS AT BRIGHTON] * * * * * [Illustration: WALTON ON THE NAZE] * * * * * [Illustration: "THE MEAT SUPPLY" _Bathing-man._ "Yes, mum, he's a good old 'orse yet. And he's been in the salt water so long, he'll make capital biled beef when we're done with him!!!"] * * * * * _Our Poetess._ "Do not talk to me of dinner, Edwin. I must stay by this beautiful Sea, and _drink it all in_!" _Bill the Boatman._ "Lor! She's a thirsty one too!" * * * * * [Illustration: HOW TO KILL TIME AT THE SEASIDE Hire bath-chairs, put the bath-chairmen inside, and drag them as fast as you can up and down the parade.] * * * * * [Illustration: INOPPORTUNE _Enthusiast of the "No Hat Brigade"_ (_to elderly gentleman, who has just lost his hat_). "Fine idea this, sir, for the hair, eh?"] * * * * * [Illustration: _Jones._ "Hullo, Brown, what's the matter with you and Mrs. Brown?" _Brown._ "Matter? Why, do you know what they call us down here? They call us Beauty and the Beast! Now I should like to know what my poor wife has done to get such a name as that!"] * * * * * THE TREACHEROUS TIDE [Illustration] I sat on a slippery rock, In the grey cliff's opal shade, And the wanton waves went curvetting by Like a roystering cavalcade. And they doffed their crested plumes, As they kissed the blushing sand, Till her rosy face dimpled over with smiles At the tricks of the frolicsome band. Then the kittywake laughed, "Ha! ha!" And the sea-mew wailed with pain, As she sailed away on the shivering wind To her home o'er the surging main. And the jelly-fish quivered with rage, While the dog-crabs stood by to gaze, And the star-fish spread all her fingers abroad, And sighed for her grandmothers' days. And the curlew screamed, "Fie! fie!" And the great gull groaned at the sight, And the albatross rose and fled with a shriek To her nest on the perilous height. * * * * * Good gracious! the place where I sat With sea-water was rapidly filling, And a hoarse voice cried, "Sir, you're caught by the tide! And I'll carry ye off for a shilling!" * * * * * [Illustration] * * * * * [Illustration: A SAIL OVER THE BAY] * * * * * "LOCAL COLOUR."--PLACE: South Parade, Cheapenham-on-Sea.--_Edith._ "Mabel dear, would you get me _Baedeker's Switzerland_ and the last Number of the _World_." _Mabel._ "What do you want _them_ for?"