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Hercules returning from a Fancy Ball To face p. 3 Physician and General Practitioner 27 “Where ’ave we bin? Why, to see the Cove ’ung, to be sure!” 29 An Eye to Business 31 But Augustus’s Heart was too full to speak 33 “Sir! Please, Mr.! Sir! you’ve forgot the Door-key!” 38 Eton Boy (loq.): “Come, governor! just one toast—‘The Ladies’!” 39 The Return from the Derby 43 The Derby Epidemic 44 Something like a Holiday 46 Alarming Symptoms on eating Boiled Beef and Gooseberry-pie 47 “So you have taken all your Stuff, and don’t feel any better, eh?” 50 Awful Apparition to a Gentleman whilst Shaving in the Edgware Road, September 29, 1846. 51 “A Holder and a Thinner Wine” 53 “Hollo! Hi! here, Somebody! I’ve turned on the Hot Water, and I can’t turn it off again!” 54 Symptoms of a Masquerade 55 The Rising Generation 57 The Irrepressible Juvenile 58 The Rising Generation 59 Servant-gal-ism 63 The Rising Generation 65 Special Constable: “Now mind, you know—if I kill you, it’s nothing; but if you kill me, by Jove! it’s murder!” 67 Recreations in Natural History 69 Cabman is supposed to have taken a Wrong Turning, that’s all 70 Mr. Briggs does a little Shooting 73 ”Fiddle-Faddle” Fashions 90 ”Fiddle-Faddle” Fashions 91 The Mulready Envelope 96 Fores’s Comic Envelope 97 Mamma and the Girls 106 Two Rude Young Men 107 The Head of the House 108 An Olive-Branch