"Ways and Means."

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CONTENTS.

PAGE
[Adjustment] 20
[A Fortiori] 110
[Alarming] 44
[Alma Mater] 50
[Angling Extraordinary] 81
[Answer, a Soft] 22
[Anything for a Change] 118
[A Pledged M. P.] 4
[Appeal, a Final] 37
[Appearances] 118
[Arbiter Elegantiarum] 35
[Arcadian Amenities] 56
[Archery Meeting] 76
[Architecture (Irish)] 123
[Argumentum ad Hominem] 21
[Artful—Very!] 57
[Artist, Our] 54
[Art-School Conversazione, Our] 119
[As Well as can be Expected] 46
[Awkward!] 75
[Bad Customer] 2
[Badinage] 146
[Banting in the Yeomanry] 155
[Bargain, Driving a] 132
[Barometrical] 14
[Beard Movement, the] 106
[Beauty, a Thing of] 126
[Benediction! a] 133
[Bereaved] 96
[Between two Shoeblacks we fall, &c] 120
[Bird Show, the] 5
[Birthday Dinner-Party, Mrs. Frummage's] 134
[Blank Firing] 155
[Bon Voyage!] 100
[Boon Companions] 96
[Boxing-Day] 55
[Boys, those Dreadful] 80
[Breaking the Ice] 24
[Bric á Brac] 144
[Brother Brush] 84
[Brushing Pa's New Hat] 136
[Business!] 69
[Business! a Stroke of] 135
[Bus-Measure] 147
[By the Card] 41
[Candid] 132
[Canny] 68
[Casual Acquaintance, a] 43
[Catechism under Difficulties] 78
[Cavalry Criticism] 142
[Chaff] 31
[Change for the Better, a] 65
[Character, a Satisfactory] 98
[Chronology] 147
[Circumlocutory!] 43
[Civil Servants, H. M., What they have to Endure] 117
[Civil Service Miseries] 49
[Club Law] 94
[Colloquial Equivalents] 65
[Commissariat, the] 69
[Comparisons] 73
[Compliment, a] 47
[Complimentary] 39
[Compliments of the Season] 82
[Compliments of the Season] 82
[Compliments of the (Sketching) Season] 84
[Concert, the Morning] 97
[Conclusive] 58
[Confederate, a Treacherous] 23
[Confession] 134
[Confession in Confusion] 18
[Confidence, in] 98
[Connoisseur, the] 16
[Connoisseurs, the] 60
[Conscience, a Guilty] 74
[Conscience Clause, the] 101
[Considerate] 52
[Convalescent, the] 74
[Cool Card, a] 97
[Cricket] 23
[Criticism, Considerate] 109
[Criticism, Legitimate] 127
[Culture for the Working Classes] 43
[Cure, a Perfect] 45
[Curious] 118
[Dear, Dear Boy!] 83
[Decimals on Deck] 13
[Definition, a] 70
[Delicacy] 40
[Delicately Put] 73
[Depression] 86
[Desperate Case!] 25
[Dignity] 1
[Dilemma, a] 20
[Dinners, Little, How we arrange our] 58
[Disaffection!] 129
[Dish, a New] 53
[Distinction, a] 51
[Distracting] 47
[District Visitor, Trials of a] 127
[Durance] 3
[Duty and Pleasure] 69
[Education!] 23
[Embarrassing] 50
[Encouraging!] 90
[Equal to the Situation] 74
[Exchange!] 25
[Excuse, a Perfect] 107
[Exempli Gratia] 102
[Extenuating Circumstances] 70
[Extortion] 130
[Fahrenheit] 107
[Failing, a Little] 60
[Failures, Our] 149
[Familiarity breeds Contempt] 124
[Family Man, a] 15
[Family Pride] 1
[Family Ties] 8
[Feather, the last (Co-operative)] 129
[Fiat Experimentum] 153
[Fine Art] 145
[Finishing Touch, the] 109
[Fish, a Big] 56
[Fishing, an Evening's (behind the Distillery at Sligo)] 121
[Flattering] 72
[Flunkeianum] 137
[For Better for Worse] 7
[Game (a) Two can Play at] 13
[Gamut, the] 141
[Garrison Instruction] 142
[Grandiloquence] 77
[Gratitude] 93
[Grey Mare, the] 58
[Gentility in Greens] 9
[Geology] 96
[Golden Age Restored, the] 63
[Habit, Force of] 50
[Habit, a Luxurious] 63
[Ha! Ha! the Wooin' o' it] 150
[Happy Thought] 82
[Hard Lines] 35
[Hardship, a] 140
[Hard-up on a Wet Day] 99
[Harp in the Air, the] 122
[Heresy] 42
[He thought he was Safe] 108
[Hibernian Veracity] 111
[High Life below Stairs!] 94
[Hoist with his own Pomade] 47
[Hunting Appointments] 89
[Hunting Idiot] 54
[Hygiene] 108
[Hyperbole] 88
[Ignorance, Crass] 10
[Im-pertinent] 120
[Incidit in Scyllam, &c.] 117
[Incombinable Elements] 99
[Ingenuas Didicisse, &c.] 36
[Ingenuity, Irish] 12
[In the Long Run] 151
[Initiative, Obvious] 132
[Inspection, Our] 89
[Intelligent Pet] 12
[In Vino Memoria] 78
[Io Bacche!] 60
[Irish Grievances, Real] 88
[Irreverent] 153
[Irrevocable] 55
[Is it Pos-sible?!] 31
[It's an Ill Wind,] 90
[It's the Pace that Kills] 141
[Jeopardy, in] 41
[Just in Time] 17
[Knowledge, Pursuit of] 95
[Labor, Division of] 38
[Lapsus Linguæ] 76
[Last Word, the] 91
[Le Jeu ne vaut pas la Chandelle] 28
[Lessons in the Vacation] 138
[Let Well alone!] 28
[Levelling Up] 77
[Liberal to a Fault] 48
[Like her Impudence] 140
[Lingua East Anglia] 62
[Little and Good] 135
[Look before you Leap] 27
[Lucid!] 26
[Lucus a Non, &c.] 88
[Luxury, Seasonable] 22
[Making Things Pleasant] 81
[Mal Apropos] 18
[Manners!] 116
[Manœuvres, Our (1)] 19
[Manœuvres, Our (2)] 59
[March of Refinement] 2
[Master of the Situation?!] 116
[Matter!] 37
[Meat Supply, the] 66
[Menace] 126
[Men were Deceivers ever] 49
[Mens Conscia] 1
[Mercies, Small, (not) Thankful for] 39
[Military Manœuvres] 19
[Mind and Matter] 79
[Mine of Speculation, a] 21
[Misnomer, a] 128
[Mistakes will Happen] 136
[Mistletoe Bough, Oh the] 42
[Model, an Irish] 133
[More than one for his Nob] 137
[Music in the Midlands] 106
[Music of the Future—Sensation Opera] 94
[Mystery solved, The] 3
[Mystification] 71
[Nae that Fou!] 110
[Narcotic, a] 15
[Natural Advantages] 113
[Nature and Art] 113
[Never say 'Die'] 36
[Nimble Ninepence, the] 125
[No accounting for Taste] 64
[Noblesse oblige!] 105
[No Mistake, this Time] 27
[No such Luck] 30
[Not Proven] 121
[Not so Fast!] 154
[Not to put too fine a Point on it] 36
[Obliging] 71
[Off!] 38
[Offender, an Old] 55
[Offer, a Fair] 111
[Officer (an) and a Gentleman!] 143
[Once for All] 92
[On the Face of it] 131
[Order, an Extensive] 30
[Ornaments for your Fire-Stoves] 131
[Panic in the Kitchen, a] 32
[Parthian Shaft, a] 115
[Particular!] 34
[Particular!] 90
[Particular to a Hair] 147
[Partner, Vivifying Treatment of a] 34
[Passage of Arms, a] 137
[Penny Wise] 46
[Perils of the Deep] 4
[Personal!] 100
[Perspective!] 79
[Pet, Intelligent] 3
[Pickles, Mixed] 126
[Pic-nic, the] 57
[Pink of Fashion, the] 5
[Plain to Demonstration] 9
[Pleasant for Simpkins!] 128
[Pleasuring!] 107
[Plutocrat, a] 37
[Point of View, a] 87
[Point of View, from one] 119
[Poor Humanity!] 7
[Precise] 29
[Presence of Mind] 144
[Prevention's better than Cure] 8
[Profanation] 80
[Proof Positive] 32
[Prospect, a Pleasant (1)] 67
[Prospect, a Pleasant (2)] 85
[Prospect, a Nice] 95
[Provinces, Something from the] 155
[Prudence, Common] 6
[Pulpit-Critics, Stern] 68
[Qualifications] 33
[Quantity, not Quality] 148
[Quite another Thing] 111
[Quite Superfluous] 105
[Races not yet Extinct] 20
[Rather too Literal] 152
[Ready!] 83
[Reason in Woman] 149
[Reassuring] 67
[Reductio ad Absurdum] 86
[Refrigerated Tourists] 2
[Refusal, a Rash] 73
[Register! Register!] 120
[Relapse] 97
[Reminiscences] 46
[Reproof, Proper] 135
[Res Angustæ Domi] 11
[Reserves, Our] 59
[Reserves, Our Auxiliary Forces, North of Ireland] 146
[Restraints of Society] 114
[Retributive Justice] 41
[Revenge for the Union, More] 13
[Riding Lesson, the] 26
[Roll-Call, the] 9
[Romance of the Kitchen] 82
[Run of the House, the] 103
[Running Drill, the New] 19
[Rural Simplicity] 78
[Rustic Recollections] 52
[Sacrifice] 70
[Satisfactory!] 150
[Sausage Machine, the] 16
[Scruples] 123
[Scrupulous] 12
[Season, a Bad] 124
[Secrets] 115
[Selling him a Pennyworth ] 65
[Sermon, the First] 24
[Servants, the (1)] 35
[Servants, the (2)] 40
[Servants, the (3)] 104
[Servants, the (4)] 127
[Service (the) going to,] 143
[Silence is Golden] 14
[Silly Suffolk (?) Pastorals—Reciprocity] 76
[Silver Lining to a Cloud, not a] 53
[Simple Addition] 114
[Simplicity, Sweet] 115
[Sinister Slip, a] 49
[Slip o' the Tongue, a] 18
[Small Mercies] 44
[Sold—Cheap] 64
[Son, a Kind] 10
[Son, a Degenerate] 25
[Spoiling it] 33
[Straightforward View, a] 51
[Struggle for Existence, the] 98
[Suit your Talk to your Company] 75
[Suspicion!] 86
[Sweet is Revenge—especially to Women!] 24
[Sympathy (1)] 48
[Sympathy (2)] 103
[Tailors' Strike, in consequence of the] 45
[Temper, the Triumphs of] 6
[Temptation] 33
[Terms, Cash] 93
[Theatricals, Our] 72
[The Better the Day,] 51
[The Way we Build now] 151
[The Way we had in the Army] 143
[The Way we Live now] 112
[The more Haste, the less Speed] 87
[Themis, Irish Ideal of] 122
[There's many a Slip] 62
[Tho' lost to Sight] 29
[Thrift] 123
[Ticket of Leave, a] 66
['Tis better not to Know] 30
[Too Bad!] 141
[Too Late] 106
[Too True!] 92
[Tourists, Refrigerated] 2
[Tracts!] 66
[Trade, State of] 27
[Travellers, Tricks upon] 148
[Truth, a Half] 7
[Trying] 5
[Turk, a Regular] 117
[Turn about] 81
[Two Sides to a Question] 85
[Tyranny] 45
[Ulster, the] 14
[Unconscionable] 15
[Unprejudiced!] 10
[Up and Down Stairs] 92
[Veneration] 22
[Vested Interests] 31
[Veteran, a] 61
[Wages and Wives] 95
[Warning, Awful] 16
[Ways and Means] 155
[Weather, a Change in the] 11
[Weights and Measures] 44
[Well Meant] 113
[Wet and Dry] 154
[What Next?] 104
[What's in a Name?] 53
[What's the Odds?] 61
[When you are about it] 103
[Where Ignorance is Bliss] 39
[Where there's a Will there's a Way!] 150
[Wimbledon] 139
[Winkles!] 128
[Woman-hater, a] 102
[Woman of Business, a] 149
[Woman's Rights] 68
[Words and Weights] 17
[XXX cellent Reasons] 48
[Zoology] 130

Transcriber's Note:
The index has been moved from the beginning of the book to the end for the reader's convenience.
In the original book, there were two or three illustrations on each page. The illustrations have been enlarged and there is now one illustration on each page. The page numbers have been adjusted accordingly, for example the illustrations on page 102 are now on pages 102a, 102b and 102c.
The punctuation and spelling in the text are as printed in the original publication.