CONTENTS.

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["Our Preface" described.]
[My Portrait]1
[My last pair of Hessian Boots]8
[Epigram]13
[Love seeking a Lodging]14
[Frank Heartwell; or, Fifty Years Ago,]15, [39,] [76,]
[112,] [144,] [177,]
[210,] [246,] [282.]
[Monument to Napoleon]26
[Photographic Phenomena; or, the New School of Portrait Painting]29
[Commentary on the New Police Act—Punch v. Law]33
[Original Poetry, by the late Sir Fretful Plagiary, Knt. "Ode to the Human Heart,"]
["On Life et cetera," &c.]35
[Love has Legs]52
[Bernard Cavanagh, the Irish Cameleon]53
[The Ass on the Ladder]54
[Omnibus Chat]59
[Scene near Hogsnorton]61
[Chancery Lane Enigma]ib.
[Sonnets to Macready]63
[Large Order to a Homœopathic Apothecary, &c.]64
["My Vote and Interest."]
A Communication from Mr. Simpleton Schemer, of Doltford Lodge, Crooksley65
[The Census]72
[Love's Masquerading]75
[The Livery—Out of London]89
[Omnibus Chat]92
[Legend of Van Diemen's Land]92
[The Girl and the Philosopher]94
[The Grave of the Suicide (who thought better of it).]ib.
[A Rigid Sense of Duty]95
[Frights]97
[A Peep into a Leg-of-Beef Shop]100
[A Few Notes on Unpaid Letters]102
[First Discovery of Van Demon's Land]104
[The Muffin Man]120
[A Tiger Hunt in England]121
[Omnibus Chat]124
[Ingenious Rogueries]124
[The Sister Sciences of Botany and Horticulture]126
[Photogenic Pictures, No. II.]127
[A Negro Boy in the West Indies]ib.
[Legend of the Kilkenny Cats]128
[Mademoiselle Rachel]129
[Frights!—No. II.]130
[A Short Cruise at Margate]132
[Epigrams]134
[Passionate People]135
[Our New Cooks]141
[A Song of Contradictions]143
[A Warm Reception]151
[Tea-Table Tattle]152
[Omnibus Chat]155
[The Fashions]ib.
[Playbills and Playgoing]ib.
[A Romance of the Orchestra]156
[One of the Curiosities of Literature]157
[An Incident of Travel]158
[Here's a Bit of Fat for You]159
[Heiress Presumptive]ib.
[Letter from Mrs. Toddles]160
[Frights!—No. III. Haunted Houses, &c.]161
[Little Spitz; by Michael Angelo Titmarsh]167
[Last Night of Vauxhall; by Laman Blanchard]172
[A Tale of the Times of Old]176
[An Anacreontic Fable]ib.
[How to Raise the Wind; by Captain Marryatt, R.N.]182
[Peep at Bartholomew Fair; by Alpha]188
[Omnibus Chat]191
[Association of Ideas]ib.
[Boys at School]194
[The Laceman's Lament]ib.
[The Height of Impudence]195
[Mrs. T. again]196
[The Artificial Floor for Skating]197
[Duns Demonstrated; by Edward Howard, Author of "Rattlin the Reefer"]199
[The Second Sleeper Awakened. Translated by Ali]202
[Just Going Out; by Laman Blanchard]204
[A Theatrical Curiosity]216
[Sliding Scales]217
[Sketches Here, There, and Everywhere; by A. Bird. A Stage-coach Race]218
[Another Curiosity of Literature]222
[A Horrible Passage in My Early Life]223
[Two of a Trade]225
[Omnibus Chat]226
[The Two Naval Heroes]ib.
[Tar and Feathers]227
[An Acatalectic Monody]228
[Third Meeting of the Bright-ish Association for the Advancement of Everything]ib.
[Rum Corks in Stout Bottles]229
[A Highway Adventure]230
[Bearded like the Pard]ib.
[Some Account of the Life and Times of Mrs. Sarah Toddles; by Sam Sly]231
[The Fire at the Tower of London]233
[Miss Adelaide Kemble]238
[Jack Gay, Abroad and at Home; by Laman Blanchard]240
[The King of Brentford's Testament; by Michael Angelo Titmarsh]244
[The Fire King Flue]254
[A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Leakey]255
[Omnibus Chat]260
[The Clerk, a Parody]ib.
[The British Association]261
[Playing on the Piano]262
[November Weather]263
[Mrs. Toddles]ib.
[Jack-o'lantern]265
[Christmas. By Sam Sly]266
[A Snap-Dragon. By Charles Hookey Walker, Esq.]267
[Sonnet to "Some One"]ib.
[The Homœopathist's Serenade. By Dr. Bulgardo]ib.
[What do you do that for?]268
[Lines by a Y—g L—y of F—sh—on]271
[The Frolics of Time. A Striking Adventure. By Laman Blanchard, Esq.]272
[A Peep (Poetic) at the Age. By A. Bird]276
[A Still-life Sketch]277
[A Tale of an Inn]278
["Such a Duck!"]281
[The Postilion]289
["The Horse by the Head"]292
[A Floating Recollection]293
[The Pauper's Chaunt]294
[Sketches Here, There, and Everywhere]295
[Mrs. Toddles]299
[Sonnet to Mrs. Toddles]300
[Postscript]304

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[PREFACE]to face title
[PORTRAIT OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK]1
[FRANK HEARTWELL, OR FIFTY YEARS AGO.]15
[COMMENTARY UPON THE NEW POLICE ACT, NO. I.]33
[COMMENTARY UPON THE NEW POLICE ACT, NO II.]34
[FRANK HEARTWELL'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH BRADY]47
["RUSH TO POLL"—AN ELECTION SQUIB]65
[FRANK HEARTWELL AND SAMBO, IN THE HOLD OF THE TENDER ]85
[FRIGHTS, NO. I.—"FLYING BEADLES"]97
[FRANK HEARTWELL, BEN, AND SAMBO, AMUSING THE NATIVES]116
[PORTRAIT OF RACHEL IN THE CHARACTER OF MARIE STUART]129
[FRIGHTS, NO. II.—"THIEVES."—"THE STRANGE CAT"]130
[RICHARD BROTHERS, THE PROPHET, AT MRS. HEARTWELL'S]147
[FRIGHTS, NO. III.—"GHOSTS"]161
[FRANK HEARTWELL DISCOVERING TREASURE]181
[A SKATING PARTY]197
[FRANK HEARTWELL PREPARING TO SWIM TO THE WRECK]214
[BREAKING INTO "THE JEWEL ROOM" AT THE TOWER]233
[PORTRAIT OF MISS ADELAIDE KEMBLE]238
[FRANK HEARTWELL SEIZING BRADY]252
[JACK O'LANTERN]265
[FRANK HEARTWELL]287