A SKETCH NEAR PICCADILLY.

A THREAT MISPLACED.

“Oi tell yez Oi will not clane out me Cell. Oi’d lave the Jail furrst!”

OBVIOUS.

“Gentlemen, I am ready to admit that his Career in the Past has not been free from Blemish——”

AN AWKWARD ADMISSION.

Enthusiastic Briton (to seedy American, who has been running down all our National Monuments). “But even if our Houses of Parliament ‘aren’t in it,’ as you say, with the Masonic Temple of Chicago, surely, Sir, you will admit the Thames Embankment, for instance——”