QUALIFIED ADMIRATION.
Country Vicar. "Well, John, what do you think of London?"
Yokel. "Lor' bless yer, Sir, it'll be a Fine Place when it's Finished!"
PAGE FROM "ROSEBERY'S HISTORY OF THE COMMONWEALTH."
(With Mr. Punch's Compliments to the Gentleman who will have to design "that statue.")
"You really must join the Army," said the stern old Puritan to the Lord Protector. "The fate of this fair realm of England depends upon the promptness with which you assume command."
Oliver Cromwell paused. He had laid aside his buff doublet, and had donned a coat of a thinner material. His sword also was gone, and hanging by his side was a pair of double spy-glasses—new in those days—new in very deed.