Professional Cricketers, 53 Professor's Opinion on Long Words (The), 255 Public School Boy and his Grandfather, 123 Punch and the Police Recruit, 191 Punch as Apollo, 1 Punch at Portsmouth, 54 Railway Station Puzzle, 93 Record of the Session--Dead Heat, 133 Regretting not having eaten more Oysters, 294 Returning Home from Seaside, 162 Robert and Stingy Old Gent, 81 Rough Day at the Sea-side, 138 Sacred Music in French, 189 Salisbury awaking the Crocodile, 160 Science appealing to John Bull, 51 Scotch Wife and the Minister's Tricycle, 166 Seeing the Blondin Donkey, 99 Set Fair at Whitby, 114 Several Boxing Encounters, 287 Sharp Boy and Papa's Sixpence, 209 Sir W. V. Harcourt as Falstaff, 254 Sketching a Lady Sketcher, 174 Snap-shots for the Twelfth, 69 Society's Pugilistic Pet, 282 Speaker using the Birch (The), 47 Special Constable and Lady Cook, 258 Speechifying on Railway Platforms, 215 Street Puzzle--in the Strand, 117 Sultan's Appeal to Mr. Punch, 153 Teacher of Shorthand (A), 170 Times, Salisbury, and National League, 40 Toby's New Year's Greeting, 302 Tradesmen clearing Regent Street, 15 Triangular Duel of Operatic Managers, 21 Turning on Whiskey and Water, 106 Unemployed Man's Shovel (An), 206 University Coach and Volatile Pupil, 34 Unwelcome Lady Visitor (An), 86 Utilising a Theatrical Poster, 216 Watching a Couple on the Balcony, 58 Wearing a Real Engagement Ring, 239 Whim-buildin', 17, 29 Willow-Pattern Plate (The), 146 Wolff and the Sultan, 29 Wonderful Sporting Dog (A), 147 Woolly Landscape, but not Woolly Sheep (A), 303 [Illustration] LONDON: BRADBURY AGNEW & CO., PRINTERS WHITEFRIARS. [Illustration: PUNCH VOL 93 LONDON: PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE, 85, FLEET STREET, AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1887.] LONDON: BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. [Illustration] SCENE--_A snug and sequestered if cloudy corner of the Elysian Fields. Present, the Shades of_ SHAKSPEARE _and_ BACON, _engaged in reading_ Mr. DONELLY'S _egregious lucubrations, not without such mild and mitigated mirth as becomes the locality. To them enters a small and sprightly Personage, light-footed, but of seeming cis-Stygian solidity._ _Bacon_ } (_together_). Hillo! _Shakspeare_ } _Mr. Punch._ _That_ sounds human. Savours rather of my own Fleet Street than of the realms of the _other_ Rhadamanthus. What cheer, sweet WILL? How fare you, Brother FRANCIS? [_Salutes courteously._ _Bacon._ 'Twere affectation to ask _who_ you are, Sir. The question, "How gat you here?" may perchance be more pertinent--and pardonable. _Mr. P._ (_airily_). Oh, I had been for--say, the _x_th time--to see "Our MARY" in _The Winter's Tale_, and being more inclined for profitable talk than for sleep, I just took you on my way home.