“Now, then, Granny, I’ve eaten the Plums, and if you don’t give me Sixpence, I’ll swallow the Stones!”Strong-minded “Bloomer.”—“Now, do, Alfred, put down that foolish Novel, and do something rational. Go and play something. You never practice, now you’re married.”Mr. BOOBY delivering his Lecture in and upon the New Costume for Males.

A “Bloomer” (in Leap Year).—“Say! oh, say, Dearest, will you be mine?”]