ILLUSTRATIONS

“I shall have to ask you five dollars, which is halfthe customary fee”[ Frontispiece]
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“Bless my heart! Whatever have you been doing,Betty!”[ 38]
“Am I to conclude that it has been a wilful disregardof rules?”[ 162]
The famous trick of making an omelet in a gentleman’ssilk hat was heartily applauded[ 228]

BOUNCING BET