A New Maritime Resort.—"I'm sure," observed Mrs. R., "that a really pleasant thing to do in the summer holidays would be to take a trip to the Specific Islands."
The Greatest Authority on the Working of the "In-and-Out" Clauses.—Mr. Sexton, M.P.!
Going Against the Grein.—Refusing to patronise the Independent Theatre.
French Billiards at Siam.—The Cannon Game.
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Sundry damaged or missing punctuation has been repaired.
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Page 25: 'abreviating' corrected to 'abbreviating'.
"... as emphasizing, by descriptively abbreviating, these two epithets,..."
Page 30: 'Nickledy Nod' is correct [www . archive.org/stream/laysandlyrics00hawkgoog#page/n124]. (From: "Lays and Lyrics": Nickledy Nod. Dedicated to the "Sweet Girl Graduates of the School of Cookery." (After Punch.)) Page 33: 'where corrected to 'were' "True, for our wages, which were somewhere near the "Twenty-ones," Great expectations would have been a trifle rash." Page 34: 'nihil tetigit quod non ornavit' = 'he touched nothing without embellishing it' |