PONKING has just come up; he has arranged with a photographer to take us all, just as we are, in a group. As PONKING and ALF consider it humorous to be taken in the act of making horrible grimaces, we promptly become objects of general interest. I should _not_ like to be seen by any of the fellows at the office just now. [Illustration: Coming with a Rush!] We are all posed--and a nice picture we shall make!--when, on the outskirts of the crowd, I see a slender stately figure, which does not seem quite to belong to Starmouth. There is actually a sort of resemblance--but that is absurd! She notices the crowd, and as she pauses with a half-indifferent curiosity, I see her full face.... It is almost too terrible to be true--but I am under no delusion,--_it is ETHEL DERING!_ "Quite steady all, for one moment, please," says the photographer. If I could only bury my head in the sand like an ostrich,--but _that_ would excite remark, I suppose, and, besides, there is no time! * * * * * Theatrical Noes to Queries. Mrs. JOHN WOOD is not engaged with a sequel to _East Lynne_, but with JOHN CLAYTON. ARTHUR CECIL was not a favourite of Queen ELIZABETH; and she never received him at the Court in his life. WILSON BARRETT does not always make a speech after an earthquake. And lastly it is not true that Mrs. JAMES BROWN-POTTER was instructed in her art by Mrs. SIDDONS, Mrs. JORDAN, Miss ELLEN TERRY, Mme. SARAH BERNHARDT, and Miss MINNIE PALMER. * * * * * -->NOTICE.--Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, will in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by a Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper. To this rule there will be no exception. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charavari, Volume 93, October 8, 1887, by Various