Mr. Macmonnies (an old Friend). "Well, look here, Old Man, I'll tell you what really brought me here to-day. The Fact is my Wife wants her Mother painted very badly—and I naturally thought of You!"
Sale of the Clifden and High Price Pictures. —"The Wife of Burgomaster Six" went for over £7000. This wife of Burgomaster Half-a-dozen was a marvellous specimen of a woman. The Burgomaster was so faithful a husband that "Six to One" has long since become a homely proverb.
A Useful Toole.—Mr. Punch was much surprised one day last week to see on the evening newspaper placards:—
Toole in the Box.
A Lucky Dog.
Was "the Box" a new piece to be put on at the distant period when Walker, London, fails to attract? No! The hero of Homburg had only been helping in the Lucky Dog Fight—merely a case of Verbum Sapte et Alport, or a Word for Sapte and Alport.
The Shortest Passage on Record.—Aberdeen to Canada at a pen-stroke.