Letter from Professor Herkomer 293 A Prisoner 294 "Good Advertisement." Original Idea as sent to me 297 Ditto. My Drawing of it in _Punch_ 297 "English Waterproof Ink" 299 I sit for John Brown 300 A Crib by an American Advertiser 301 Finis 302 CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST. CHAPTER I. CONFESSIONS OF MY CHILDHOOD--AND AFTER. Introductory--Birth and Parentage--The Cause of my remaining a Caricaturist--The Schoolboys' _Punch_--Infant Prodigies--As a Student--I Start in Life--_Zozimus_--The Sullivan Brothers--Pigott--The Forger--The Irish "Pathriot"--Wood Engraving--Tom Taylor--The Wild West--Judy--Behind the Scenes--Titiens--My First and Last Appearance in a Play--My Journey to London--My Companion--A Coincidence. [Illustration] In offering the following pages to the public, I should like it to be known that no interviewer has extracted them from me by the thumbscrew of a morning call, nor have they been wheedled out of me by the caresses of those iron-maidens of literature, the publishers. For the most part they have been penned in odd half-hours as I sat in my easy-chair in the solitude of my studio, surrounded by the aroma of the post-prandial cigarette. I would also at the outset warn those who may purchase this work in the expectation of finding therein the revelations of a caricaturist's Chamber of Horrors, that they will be disappointed. Some day I may be tempted to bring forth my skeletons from the seclusion of their cupboards and strip my mummies, taking certain familiar figures and faces to pieces and exposing not only the jewels with which they were packed away, but all those spicy secrets too which are so relished by scandal-loving readers. At present, however, I am in an altogether lighter and more genial vein. My confessions up to date are of a purely personal character, and like a literary Liliputian I am placing myself in the hand of that colossal Gulliver the Public.