Mr. Bill. And though he seems cocksure the Gen'l Election he'll win,

Maybe if he's out to me always, he may not get in! [Exeunt.

Grand Old Voice (within). Look nasty! Now have I done wisely this time—on reflection?

One must be so careful—"in view of the General Election!"


RECOLLECTIONS OF (COCKNEY) "ARABIAN" DAYS AND NIGHTS.

[Mr. MONTAGU WILLIAMS, Q.C., is about to publish, in the pages of Household Words, a series of descriptive articles, embodying his more than Wellerishly "extensive and peculiar" knowledge of London, and entitled "Round London, Down East, Up West.">[

When the breeze of romance in my youth blew free,

"A Welcome Guest" I was wont to see.

It was a right good time with me,