The Fare. "I DEFY YOU!"

The Driver. "WHO ARE YOU?"

The Fare. "I AM A RETIRED TAXI-DRIVER."


"Sir Eric Geddes speaks of £50,000,000,000—a sum so vast that it could not be paid off in a century of annual payments so small as £2,000,000,000 each."—Yorkshire Paper.

Our contemporary overestimates the difficulty.


THE VERDICT OF DEMOCRACY.