[Illustration: BEFORE HIS FRIENDS BROWN (_who likes to be thought a swell, and who has been entrusted with a friend's brougham for the night_): "Home, John." JOHN: "Where's that, sir?"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN SIR AUGUSTUS HARRIS] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: SAINTLY POLITENESS] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN SIR EDWARD LAWSON] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: OH, LISTEN TO A TALE OF "WO"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN MR. RUDYARD KIPLING] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: THE NEW JEW "And so you're going to marry a Christian and disgrace your poor old father." "Yeth, but I'm goin' to change my name to Smith." "But what are you goin' to do with _that_ nose?"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: "Oh, I say! Ain't 'e in a bloomin' 'urry; 'e wants to git there before the 'orse."] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: "Yes, I was three months in the desert, with nothing to drink but camel's milk." "Didn't it give you the _hump_!"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN THE RIGHT HON. W. V. HARCOURT, M.P.] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: THE VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES PIOUS FRIEND: "Dear me, I'm sorry to see you coming out of a public-house, Mr. Brown." "Couldn't help it, ole fel' (_hic_), I was chucked out!"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN MONSIEUR ERNEST RENAN] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: A PAIR OF SOILED KIDS] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: LIP. NEW ARRIVAL (_in Australia_): "What's good for mosquitoes?" RESIDENT: "You are!"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN THE LATE LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: THE CAPE MAIL CLERK: "The letter is too heavy. It will require an extra stamp." SHE: "Won't that make it heavier?"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN LORD RUSSELL OF KILLOWEN] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: "What the deuce are you smoking, old chap?" "Well, you see, the doctor has limited me to one cigar a day!"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN MR. H. M. STANLEY] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: INFORMATION OBLIGING DRIVER (_to country visitor, who is trying to see London from the top of a 'bus in an intense fog_): "That there's the Halbert Memorial, but you can't see it!"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN LORD ALINGTON] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: INQUISITIVE "Oh, ma! Are those what they call sea legs?"] ---------------------------------------