* “Two rows of figures form the procession, which is led by two crossing-sweepers, who clear the way; then boys with links, mutes, jockeys, flower and match girls; Logic, with his broken umbrella up; Kate and Sue, servants, pugilists, and a man bearing the ropes of the prize-ring; Dusty Bob and Sal, Billy Waters, Little Jemmy in his sledge, fish- women, men with banners, ‘Charlies’ bringing up the rear, dancing and shouting.”--_Mr. G. W. Reid’s Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of George Cruikshank._ Dusty Bob was always a favourite character with George. The two brothers, who enjoyed their frolics together very much in their early days, having resolved to go to a masquerade at Covent Garden, Robert, who was fond of dress, selected a gorgeous cavalier costume, while George resolved to appear as a dustman. The dustman of those days, in his Sunday clothes, was a picturesque object, with his well-blacked fan-tailed hat, white flannel jacket, scarlet plush breeches, white stockings, and neat gaiters. He had a liberal display of linen, and about his neck a bright-tinted “Barcelona” kerchief. But George Cruikshank resolved to go as the workaday dustman, as he had studied him in his low haunts. He obtained a dustman’s old patched suit, begrimed his face and hands artistically, put a dirty clay pipe in his mouth, and strolled on a summer’s evening from Dorset Street to Covent Garden Theatre, where, with all a dustman’s roughness, he presented his ticket. The collector hesitated, amazed that so low a fellow could have obtained possession of the ticket. “Haint it reg’lar?” shouted the dustman. The difficulty was cleared up by the appearance of the splendid cavalier Robert, who took the dustman’s arm into the theatre, where he executed the “double shuffle,” to the great diversion of the dissipated company. That the adventures of Tom and Jerry and Logic were in some degree the experiences of Egan and the brothers Cruikshank can hardly be doubted.* It is quite clear that the artists “went the rounds” of dissipation, if only to make up their pictures. Egan was at home in the scenes which he described; nor, as we have seen, were the young Cruikshanks, in those days, puritanical in their ways of life. George, we find, was reputed to be so wild, that Professor Wilson, who admired his genius, admonished him to bring himself down to a bottle at dinner, and to moderate his amusements. * G. Cruikshank had worked for Egan in 1814. He had etched for him The Entrance of Louis XVIII, into Paris, as a frontispiece to a Map-book, which was published by Egan, at his establishment in Great Marlborough Street, in this year.