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Mr. Punch in Bohemia

Mr. Punch in Bohemia

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DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES

SONGS AND THEIR SINGERS


Little Griggs

Little Griggs (to caricaturist). "By Jove, old feller, I wish you'd been with me this morning; you'd have seen such a funny looking chap!"


You must have painted uncommonly well

(Model wishing to say something pleasant.) "You must have painted uncommonly well when you were young!"


Dinner and Dress.—Full dress is not incompatible with low dress. At dinner it is not generally the roast or the boiled that are not dressed enough. If young men are raw, that does not much signify but it is not nice to see girls underdone.



A Cheap Bath.—A farthing dip.




"Light Dues."—Photographers' charges.




"Lettered Ease."—The catalogue of the British Museum.




A Professional View of Things.—Trecalfe, our bookseller, who has recently got married, says of his wife, that he feels that her life is bound up in his.



TAVERN WINE MEASURE

2 sips make 1 glass.
2 glasses   make 1 pint.
2 pints makes 1 quart bottle.
1 bottle makes one ill.


The Boarding-out System.—Dining at the club.



Beauty and the Beast

Mrs. Mashem. "Bull-bull and I have been sitting for our photographs as 'Beauty and the Beast'!"

Lord Loreus (a bit of a fancier). "Yes; he certainly is a beauty, isn't he?"]


Short Rules for Calculation.To Find the Value of a Dozen Articles.—Send them to a magazine, and double the sum offered by the proprietor.

Another Way.—Send them to the butterman, who will not only fix their value, but their weight, at per pound.

To Find the Value of a Pound at any price.—Try to borrow one, when you are desperately hard up.


Member of the Lyceum Club. Have you read Tolstoi's "Resurrection"?

Member of the Cavalry Club. No. Is that the name of Marie Corelli's new book?



CONVIVIAL TOAST (For a Temperance Fête)

Fill high: Drink L'eau.



First Reveller (on the following morning). "I say, is it true you were the only

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