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FOUR HUNDRED HUMOROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
By John Leech
With Portrait and Biographical Sketch.
1868
Medium-Size
Medium-Size
CONTENTS
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
Alarming Symptoms after Having Boiled Beef and Gooseberry Pie....017 Great Want of Veneration.........................................018 Something like a Holiday.........................................019 Innocent and Amusing Tricks for Boys ............................020 Another..........................................................021 A London Gent Abroad.............................................022 Unfeeling Observation............................................023 Sailing versus Railways..........................................024 Innocence........................................................025 Never Satisfied..................................................026 Living in Hope...................................................027 Jealousy.........................................................028 A Puzzling Order.................................................029 How to get rid of a Gratis Patient...............................030 Hooking and Eyeing...............................................031 In for It........................................................032 Bless the Boy....................................................033 Pity the Sorrows of the Poor Police..............................034 Speculators......................................................035 Preparations for War.............................................036 Early Beginnings.................................................037 May difference of opinion never alter Friendship.................038 The Test of Gallantry............................................039 Interesting scene during the Canvas for Mr————...................040 Mal-apropos......................................................041 A little bit of Hunting..........................................042 Alarming.........................................................043 An Impudent Minx.................................................044 Very Acute.......................................................045 Men of Business..................................................046 Delicacy of the Season...........................................047 Unlucky .........................................................048 Nothing like warm Bathing........................................049 The Ruling Passion...............................................050 Different People have Different Opinions.........................051 The Alderman's Advice to his Son.................................052 An Omnibus Incident..............................................053 Very Proper Diet for Warm Weather................................054 Mr. Verdant's attempt at Bookmaking .............................055 Easily Satisfied.................................................056 The Chatalaine—a really useful Present...........................057 Domestic Bliss...................................................058 Rather Disappointing.............................................059 Domestic Bliss-Time 3.30 — Thermometer 30 degrees................060 A Dumb Waiter....................................................061 Murder Will Out..................................................062 Different People have Different Opinions.........................063 Advice Gratis....................................................064 Grandmamma is supposed to have given Tom some plums..............065 The Rising Generation............................................066 Sour Grapes......................................................067 Dog Days.........................................................068 Hall along of the Betting Offices................................069 A Romance of Roast Ducks.........................................070 Delicate.........................................................071 A Great Loss.....................................................072 Rather a Bad Look-out............................................073 Curious Effect of Relaxing Air...................................074 Oh! The Curtains.................................................075 A Left-handed Compliment.........................................076 Taken at his Word................................................077 The Opera........................................................078 Fishing off a Watering Place.....................................079 The Conservatory.................................................080 The Garret.......................................................081 Late Hours.......................................................082 No Place like Home when the family are at a Watering Place.......083 A British Ruffian................................................084 Very Considerate.................................................085 Filling up the Census Paper......................................086 Reward of
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Merit..................................................087 Doing a Little Bill..............................................088 Alarming.........................................................089 Domestic Bliss...................................................090 Returning from the Seaside—A Little Commission...................091 A Jolly Dog......................................................092 A Bon-bon from a Juvenile Party..................................093 Throwing stones through ice......................................094 True Respectability..............................................095 A Young Gentleman and Scholar....................................096 Perfect Sincerity; or Thinking Aloud.............................097 Perfect Sincerity; or Thinking Aloud.............................098 Perfect Sincerity; or Thinking Aloud.............................099 No Doubt.........................................................100 Very Low People..................................................101 A Weighty Matter.................................................102 A Cheap Day's Hunting, No. 1.....................................103 A Cheap Day's Hunting, No. 2.....................................104 A Cheap Day's Hunting, No. 3.....................................105 The Gentle Craft.................................................106 Apropos of Bloomerism............................................107 One of the Delightful Results of Bloomerism......................108 Bloomerism in a Ball-room........................................109 Barrack Life.....................................................110 Bon-bon from a Juvenile Party....................................111 Domestic Bliss...................................................112 Solicitude.......................................................113 Flunkeiana.......................................................114 A Horrible Business..............................................115 Putting his foot in it...........................................116 Flunkeiana.......................................................117 Flunkeiana.......................................................118 Domestic Bliss...................................................119 Splendid Day with the Queen's....................................120 Domestic Bliss...................................................121 Domestic Bliss...................................................122 Flunkeiana.......................................................123 Flunkeiana.......................................................124 Subject for a Picture............................................125 Fishing off Brighton.............................................126 Flunkeiana.......................................................127 An Enthusiastic Fisher...........................................128 The Worst of Evening Parties.....................................129 Sporting-Youth who has lost the Hounds...........................130 A lapse of twenty minutes—Sporting Youth returns.................131 Flunkeiana.......................................................132 Domestic Bliss...................................................133 The Opera........................................................134 How to Dress a Lobster...........................................135 An Exclusive.....................................................136 Flunkeiana.......................................................137 Snow-flakes,—No. 1...............................................138 Snow-flakes,—No. 2...............................................139 Snow-flakes,—No. 3...............................................140 The Hat-moving Experiment........................................141 A False Position.................................................142 Servantgalism; or, What's to become of the Missusses?............143 Servantgalism; or, What's to become of the Missusses?............144 Servantgalism; or, What's to become of the Missusses?............145 The Camp at Chobhan—Hospitality..................................146 The New Bonnet...................................................147 A Great Mental Effort............................................148 Cruel............................................................149 A Caution to little boys at a Festive Season.....................150 A Playful Creature...............................................151 A Very Vulgar Subject............................................152 Study of an Elderly Female Hailing the Last Omnibus..............153 A Large Bump of Caution..........................................154 Latest from Paris................................................155 A Serious Threat.................................................156 A Trifle the Matter with the Kitchen Boiler......................157 Competition......................................................158 Gammoning a Gent.................................................159 Enter Mr. Bottles, the Butler....................................160 Flunkeiana—a fact.............................................
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@44801@[email protected]#link161" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">...161 Railway Smoking..................................................162 How to get a Connection..........................................163 Thinking Aloud...................................................164 A Brutal Fellow..................................................165 A Delicious Sail off Dover.......................................166 Division of Labour...............................................167 A Thorough Good Cook.............................................168 Bottom Fishing...................................................169 First Night in the New House.....................................170 No Offence.......................................................171 Matrimonial Solicitude...........................................172 Aquatics.........................................................173 Difference of Taste..............................................174 Teeth Extracted..................................................175 "By the Sad Sea Waves"...........................................176 Miss Brown kindly takes her cousin out fishing...................177 The Woman at the Wheel...........................................178 The Female of the Future.........................................179 How cool and nice French-Polished floors are—How very Hard ......180 Villikens in the Drawing Room....................................181 Wise Man.........................................................182 Quite Safe.......................................................183 A Great Prospect.................................................184 A Gorgeous Spectacle.............................................185 Something Like Sport.............................................186 Trade............................................................187 Delightful Out-door Exercise in Warm Weather.....................188 Servantgalism ...................................................189 Servantgalism....................................................190 Bit from the Mining Districts....................................191 Bit from the Mining Districts....................................192 Servantgalism....................................................193 Delightful Privilege during Winter Months........................194 Speaking from Experience.........................................195 Surprise for Tomkins.............................................196 All Right........................................................197 Sea-side Saturday Evening........................................198 Serious for the Military.........................................199 Fashions for Fast Men............................................200 A Rare Treat.....................................................201 Alas for the old Institutions....................................202 The Moustache Movement...........................................203 Wonderful Effect of Ether in a case of scolding wife.............204 Rather Awkward for Tompkins......................................205 Servantgalism ; or, What's to become of the Missusses?...........206 Sailing Instructions.............................................207 A Country Ball...................................................208 After Partaking very Heartily....................................209 The Influenza....................................................210 How to Flatter a Gent............................................211 Best Foot Foremost...............................................212 The Rising Generation............................................213 Meeting His Half-way.............................................214 Consols at 90....................................................215 Consols at 80....................................................216 A Brilliunt Idea.................................................217 The Rising Generation............................................218 Invention Hotter than Cure.......................................219 Honeymnon at Sea.................................................220 A Heal Difficulty................................................221 A Case of Real Distress..........................................222 Literal..........................................................223 Good Security....................................................224 On the Moors.....................................................225 Speaks for Himself...............................................226 One of the Fine Arts.............................................227 Table Rapping....................................................228 A Good Education.................................................229 The Finishing Touch to a Picture ................................230 Close of the Season..............................................231 Fires for the Winter—Something wrong with the Chimney ...........232 An Association for the Advancement of Science on an Excursion....233 Business-Like....................................................234 Jack Ashore ..................................................
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class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">...235 No News is Good News (?).........................................236 Paterfamilias Superintends removal of the snow from the roof.....237 Pleasing Effect Below............................................238 The Battle of the Pianos.........................................239 Delightful for Mother............................................240 A Caution to young men who wear sharp pointed moustaches ........241 Scene-Drawing Room...............................................242 Friend, Doctor, and Wife.........................................243 A Visit to the Antediluvian Reptiles at Sydenham.................244 The Too Faithful Talbotype.......................................245 False Pretences..................................................246 Another Bit from the Mining Districts ...........................247 The Moustache Movement...........................................248 Long Vacation....................................................249 Agricultural.....................................................250 Flunkeiana.......................................................251 The Ticket-Showing Nuisance......................................252 Scholastic.......................................................253 Pleasures of Housekeeping........................................254 These Hats.......................................................255 Rather Alarming..................................................256 Thinking Aloud...................................................257 General Thaw and Bursting of the Water Pipes.....................258 Innocent Mirth...................................................259 Frightful........................................................260 Bachelor Housekeeninp............................................261 The Sensational..................................................262 Marly in the Morning.............................................263 Moral Influence of Executions....................................264 No Consequence...................................................265 The First of September...........................................266 Two Aspects......................................................267 The Police ......................................................268 Women and Freemasonry............................................269 Did You live.....................................................270 Awful result of giving a Season ticket to your wife..............271 Such a Lark......................................................272 From the Mining Districts,—an Attempt at diverting Natives.......273 Moderate Terms...................................................274 Fine Business, indeed! The Wretch!...............................275 Old Clothes......................................................276 Servantgalism....................................................277 How Disgreeable the Boys are.....................................278 The Rising Generation............................................279 Poor Muggins.....................................................280 Our Little Friend Tom Noddy......................................281 Coarse, but Characteristic.......................................282 Old Lady and Leveller............................................283 A Perfect Wretch.................................................284 The Moustache Movement...........................................285 Life in London...................................................286 At the Crimea....................................................287 Friendly, but very Unpleasant....................................288 Keeping Step.....................................................289 The Moustache Movement...........................................290 Too Bad..........................................................291 Prudent Resolve..................................................292 Disgusting for Augustus..........................................293 Servantgalism....................................................294 Flunkeiana Rustica...............................................295 A Fact...........................................................296 In Hope..........................................................297 Hope Rewarded....................................................298 Not to be Daunted................................................299 Hope and Fear....................................................300 Most Provoking...................................................301 Never Say Die....................................................302 Marry on 300 a Year..............................................303 The Husband as he ought not to be................................304 Fair and Equal...................................................305 A Very Particular Party..........................................306 Comparisons......................................................307 Good Looking.....................................................308 A Cautious Bird..................................................309 Pleasing Delusion in re Round
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Hats...............................310 Roasted Chestnuts................................................311 "Where Ignorance is Bliss".......................................312 Folly to be Wise"................................................313 Private Opinion..................................................314 Taken Aback......................................................315 Nicely Caught....................................................316 Perfectly Dreadful...............................................317 Cupid at Sea.....................................................318 Very Considerate.................................................319 A Railway Collision—A Hint to Station Masters....................320 Patience Rewarded................................................321 A Sketch from the Stand at Scarboro..............................322 Astounding Announcement from the Small Country Butcher...........323 Offended Dignity.................................................324 Amateur Pantomine................................................325 Remarkable Occurrence............................................326 Young Upholsterers...............................................327 The Valentine....................................................328 True Gallantry...................................................329 Self-Help........................................................330 Startling Advice.................................................331 Early Responsibility.............................................332 A Moral Lesson from the Nursery..................................333 The Bloated Aristocrat...........................................334 Married for Money—the Honeymoon..................................335 Under the Mistletoe..............................................336 Alarming Proposition.............................................337 Young Lady of the Period.........................................338 Serve Him Right..................................................339 Everything in its Place..........................................340 A Hint to Gentlemen..............................................341 A Hint to Railway Travellers.....................................342 Oh, Yes; Of Course...............................................343 The Quadrille in Hot Weather.....................................344 The New Regulation Mess..........................................345 A Painful Subject................................................346 Photograph Beauties..............................................347 The Opera,—No. 1.................................................348 The Opera,—No. 2..................................,..............349 A Sketch at a Railway Station....................................350 Hi' Art..........................................................351 Flunkeiana.......................................................352 Servantgaliism...................................................353 Symptoms of Hard Reading.........................................354 The Stout Lady...................................................355 Head of the House,—No. 1.........................................356 Head of the House,—No. 2.........................................357 Milk versus Water................................................358 Thrilling Domestic Incident......................................359 Very Artful Contrivance..........................................360 A Windy Day......................................................361 Common Objects at the Seaside....................................362 Astonishing a Young One..........................................363 Awkward Predicament..............................................364 A Notion of Pleasure.............................................365 A Bad Time for John Thomas.......................................366 Learning to Swim.................................................367 On the Roof......................................................368 Nothing but Eating...............................................369 Lively for Jones.................................................370 Very Odd.........................................................371 Wholesome Feast..................................................372 Of a very Studious Turn..........................................373 A very green-eyed monster........................................374 Juvenile Dissipation.............................................375 None but the Brave deserve the Fair..............................376 Tit for Tat......................................................377 Solicitude.......................................................378 Skeletons........................................................379 Great Minds Think Alike..........................................380 An elegant row about a machine...................................381 What a Terrible Turk.............................................382 A Safe Convoy....................................................383 Impertinent Curiosity.........................................
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@44801@[email protected]#link384" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">...384 Tickled with a Straw.............................................385 Horrible Question after a Greenwich Dinner.......................386 Touching Appeal..................................................387 A Great Mistake..................................................388 It's the Early Bird that Picks up the Early Worm.................389 Serious Thing for Brown..........................................390 The Moustache Movement...........................................391 The Beard........................................................392 Consolation......................................................393 Fortunate Fellows................................................394 Pursuit of Pleasure..............................................395 A Domestic Extravaganza..........................................396 Sisterly Love....................................................397 Freezing.........................................................398 A Peace Conference...............................................399 When Railway Companies fall out the Public derive the benefit....400 Quite True.......................................................401 A Holiday........................................................402 Cold in the Head.................................................403 Touching.........................................................404 A Fishing Adventure..............................................405 Self-Examination.................................................406 Delicate Test....................................................407 The Moustache Movement...........................................408 Conclusive Table-Turning Experiment made at Greenwich............409 The Farmyard.....................................................410 A Suburban Delight...............................................411 Juvenile Etymology...............................................412 Portrait of the Old Party who rather likes Organ-grinding........413 An Injured Individual............................................414 Practical Science................................................415 A Shock..........................................................416