LIST OF PRICES. £ s. d. Dress coats, warranted to wear three 1 10 0 weeks Ditto trowsers, fashionable plaid or 0 9 6 railroad Splendid vests, of the revolving 0 5 6 bottle-jack style Pasha and Taglioni wrappers, of the last 0 16 0 horse-cloth out-for-the-day half-price-to-the-play pattern Young Gent’s Rob Roy, and Glenalvon 0 15 0 dresses Montemolin cloak, 9 yards round, 1 10 0 warranted to hide the seediest clothes Metropolitan shooting costume, for the 2 15 0 fields in the vicinity of London (complete) Fashionable Epping hunting-coat 1 10 0 Racket blouses and morning tenderdens, 0 3 6 adapted to Gents in the Queen’s Bench, from A large assortment. Terms cash. _Vivat Regina._ No money returned. N.B.—Observe the Address: SHOLOMANSH, CHEAP TAILOR and GENT-FITTER, CITY. [Illustration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER XIII. THE GENTS VIEWED WITH RESPECT TO THEIR EXTINCTION. IF ANY influential member, bent upon being of service to his country, would bring in a bill for the “Total Repeal of the Gents,” he would confer the greatest benefit on society; for until they are entirely knocked on the head, our public amusements can never be conducted with the propriety which distinguishes those of Paris. We believe, with sorrow, that this offensive race of individuals is peculiar to our own country: we know of no foreign type answering to them. If persons establishing resorts where they mostly congregate, could take out an assurance against Gents, as they do against fire, what a blessing it would be! We think it would be an excellent plan for respectable electors to make members pledge themselves to vote for the heavy taxation of various articles in which Gents chiefly delight. In this tariff we would have blue stocks; large breast-pins; snaffle coat-studs; curled hair; collar-galled hacks; Spanish dances; Cellarius waltzes; Caledonian quadrilles; lithographed beauties, plain and coloured; cheap cigars; large pattern trowsers; gay under-waistcoats or “vests;” thick sticks; short canes; walking-whips; and boxes of omnibuses, as distinguished from omnibus boxes. If the Gents could not enjoy these things without paying heavy prices for them they would go without; for a great effect at a small outlay is the main intention of all their follies.