LIFE WOULD BE PLEASANT, BUT FOR ITS "PLEASURES."—Sir Cornewall Lewis
In consequence of the English watering-places being crowded, people are glad to find sleeping accommodation in the bathing-machines.
Boots (from Jones's Hotel). "I've brought your shaving water, sir; and you'll please to take care of your boots on the steps, gents: the tide's just a comin' in!"
RETURNING HOME FROM THE SEASIDE
All the family have colds, except the under-nurse, who has a face-ache. Poor materfamilias, who originated the trip, is in despair at all the money spent for nothing, and gives way to tears. Paterfamilias endeavours to console her with the reflection that "he knew how it would be, but that, after all, St. John's Wood, where they live, is such a healthy place that, with care and doctoring, they will soon be nearly as well as if they had never left it!"
[Two gay bachelors may be seen contemplating paterfamilias and his little group. Their interest is totally untinged with envy.