[Illustration: "WHITHER THOU GOEST, I CAN NOT GO; WHERE THOU LODGEST, I DO NOT LODGE; THY PEOPLE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE; NOR THY GOD, MY GOD!"--_The Chimes_, Third Quarter] [Illustration: "YOU'RE IN SPIRITS TUGBY, MY DEAR," OBSERVED HIS WIFE.... "NO," SAID TUGBY. "NO; NOT PARTICULAR. I'M A LITTLE ELEVATED. THE MUFFINS CAME SO PAT!"--_The Chimes_, Fourth Quarter] [Illustration: JOHN PEERYBINGLE'S FIRESIDE--_The Cricket on the Hearth_, Chirp the first] [Illustration: "DID ITS MOTHER MAKE IT UP A BEDS, THEN!" CRIED MISS SLOWBOY TO THE BABY; "AND DID ITS HAIR GROW BROWN AND CURLY WHEN ITS CAPS WAS LIFTED OFF, AND FRIGHTEN IT, A PRECIOUS PETS, A SITTING BY THE FIRES!"--_The Cricket on the Hearth_, Chirp the first] [Illustration: "THE EXTENT TO WHICH HE'S WINKING AT THIS MOMENT!" WHISPERED CALEB TO HIS DAUGHTER. "OH, MY GRACIOUS!"--_The Cricket on the Hearth_, Chirp the second] [Illustration: SUFFERING HIM TO CLASP HER ROUND THE WAIST, AS THEY MOVED SLOWLY DOWN THE DIM WOODEN GALLERY--_The Cricket on the Hearth_, Chirp the second] [Illustration: AFTER DINNER CALEB SANG THE SONG ABOUT THE SPARKLING BOWL--_The Cricket on the Hearth_, Chirp the third] [Illustration: THE PLOUGHSHARE STILL TURNED UP, FROM TIME TO TIME, SOME RUSTY BITS OF METAL, BUT IT WAS HARD TO SAY WHAT USE THEY HAD EVER SERVED, AND THOSE WHO FOUND THEM WONDERED AND DISPUTED--_The Battle of Life_, Part the first] [Illustration: "BY THE BYE," AND HE LOOKED INTO THE PRETTY FACE, STILL CLOSE TO HIS, "I SUPPOSE IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY"--_The Battle of Life_, Part the first] [Illustration: "I THINK IT WILL BE BETTER NOT TO HEAR THIS, MR. CRAGGS!" SAID SNITCHEY, LOOKING AT HIM ACROSS THE CLIENT. "I THINK NOT," SAID CRAGGS--BOTH LISTENING ATTENTIVELY--_The Battle of Life_, Part the second] [Illustration: "WHAT IS THE MATTER!" HE EXCLAIMED. "I DON'T KNOW. I--I AM AFRAID TO THINK. GO BACK. HARK!"--_The Battle of Life_, Part the second] [Illustration: GUESSED HALF ALOUD, "MILK AND WATER," "MONTHLY WARNING," "MICE AND WALNUTS"--AND COULDN'T APPROACH HER MEANING--_The Battle of Life_, Part the third] [Illustration: "MERRY AND HAPPY, WAS IT?" ASKED THE CHEMIST IN A LOW VOICE. "MERRY AND HAPPY OLD MAN!"--_The Haunted Man_, chap. i.] [Illustration: IT ROVED FROM DOOR-STEP TO DOOR-STEP, IN THE ARMS OF LITTLE JOHNNY TETTERBY, AND LAGGED HEAVILY AT THE REAR OF TROOPS OF JUVENILES WHO FOLLOWED THE TUMBLERS, ETC.--_The Haunted Man_, chap. ii.] [Illustration: "MR. REDLAW!" HE EXCLAIMED, AND STARTED UP--_The Haunted Man_, chap. ii.] [Illustration: "I'M NOT A-GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. LET ME BE OR I'LL HEAVE SOME FIRE AT YOU!"--_The Haunted Man_, chap. ii.] [Illustration: "YOU SPEAK TO ME OF WHAT IS LYING HERE," THE PHANTOM INTERPOSED, AND POINTED WITH ITS FINGER TO THE BOY--_The Haunted Man_, chap. iii.]