MERMAIDS' TOILETS IN '67

Blanche. "I say, some of you, call after aunty! She has taken my chignon, and left me her horrid black one!"


LOW TIDE ON SCARBOROUGH SANDS—BATHING UNDER DIFFICULTIES

The captain, who is well up in his classics, translates, for his Fanny's benefit, a celebrated Latin poem (by one Lucretius) to the effect that it is sweet to gaze from the cliff at the bathing machines vainly struggling to take the unfortunate bathers into deep water.