A naked babe, and rode to Punch’s feet,
Who stoopt, and caught the babe, and cried, “The Year!
Here is an heir for Ninety-One!”—Adapted from Tennyson’s “Coming of Arthur.”
January, 1892.
“Short ’Anded.”
Mrs. Halsbury. “I tell you what it is, Mrs. Coley, Mum—if all this ’ere dirty linen’s to be got through, we must ’ave ’ELP, Mum!!”
February, 1892.