The Project Gutenberg eBook, Our People, by Charles Samuel Keene
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OUR PEOPLE
Sketched by
CHARLES KEENE.
from the Collection of "Mr. Punch."
BOSTON,
JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.
1881.
Our People. At Home.
Our People. Street-Life.
Our People. In the Country.
Our People. Travelling.
Our People. Professional.
Our People. Official.
Our People. In the Army.
Our People. Art and Artists.
Our People. Volunteers.
Our People. At Business.
Our People. Domestics.
Our People. Working Folk.
Our People. In Ireland.
Our People. In Scotland.
&c., &c.
Toots! theres no a Jok' i' th' 'hale beuk!
COMPANION to "OUR PEOPLE,"
ENGLISH SOCIETY AT HOME,
Society Pictures By
George Du Maurier.
JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co., PUBLISHERS.
Mens Conscia.
Dignity.
Family Pride.
Bad Customer.
"March of Refinement."
Refrigerated Tourists.
Intelligent Pet.
"Durance."
The Mystery Solved.
A Pledged M. P.
"Perils of the Deep."
"The Pink of Fashion."
The Bird Show.
"Trying."
Common Prudence.
The Triumphs of Temper.
"For Better for Worse."
A Half Truth.
Poor Humanity!
Family Ties.
"Prevention Better than Cure."
The Roll-Call.
Gentility in Greens.
Plain to Demonstration.
Unprejudiced!
A Kind Son.
Crass Ignorance.
A Change in the Weather.
"Res Angustæ Domi."
Irish Ingenuity.
Scrupulous.
A Game Two can Play at.
Decimals on Deck.
More "Revenge for the Union."
The Ulster.
"Silence is Golden."
Barometrical.
A Family Man.
Unconscionable.
A Narcotic.
The Connoisseur.
Awful Warning!
The Sausage Machine.
Just in Time.
Words and Weights.
"Mal Apropos."
"A Slip o' the Tongue."
Confession in Confusion.
The New Running Drill.
Our Military Manœuvres.
The Race not yet Extinct.
A Dilemma.
Adjustment.
A Mine of Speculation.
"Argumentum ad Hominem!"
Veneration.
A Soft Answer.
Seasonable Luxury.
Education!
Cricket!
Treacherous Confederate.
Breaking the Ice.
The First Sermon.
"Sweet is Revenge, Especially to Women!"
Desperate Case!
Exchange!
A Degenerate Son.
Lucid!
The Riding Lesson.
Look before you Leap.
No Mistake, this Time.
State o' Trade.
"Let Well Alone!"
"Le Jeu ne Vaut pas la Chandelle."
"Tho' Lost to Sight——"
Precise.
An Extensive Order.
"No such Luck."
"'Tis Better not to Know."
Vested Interests.
"Chaff."
"Is It Possible?!"
A Panic in the Kitchen.
Proof Positive.
"Qualifications."
Temptation.
"Spoiling It."
Particular!
Vivifying Treatment of a Partner.
Arbiter Elegantiarum.
"The Servants."
"Hard Lines."
"Not to Put too Fine a Point on It."
"Never Say 'Die'"
"Ingenuas Didicisse" &c.
A Plutocrat.
"Matter!"
A Final Appeal.
Division of Labor.
"Off."
"Where Ignorance is Bliss" &c.
Complimentary.
"(Not) Thankful for Small Mercies"
Delicacy.
"The Servants."
Retributive Justice.
"By the Card."
In Jeopardy.
Heresy.
"Oh, the Mistletoe Bough!"
Culture for the Working Classes.
A Casual Acquaintance.
"Circumlocutory!"
Alarming.
Weights and Measures.
"Small Mercies."
Tyranny.
A Perfect Cure.
In Consequence of the Tailors' Strike.
"As Well as Can be Expected."
Penny Wise.
Reminiscences.
"Hoist with His Own 'Pomade'!"
Distracting.
A Compliment.
XXX Cellent Reasons.
Sympathy.
Liberal to a Fault.
Civil Service Miseries.
"Men were Deceivers Ever."
A Sinister Slip.
Force of Habit.
"Alma Mater."
Embarrassing.
A Straightforward View.
"The Better the Day." &c.
A Distinction.
Considerate.
Rustic Recollections.
Not a "Silver Lining" to a Cloud.
"What's in a Name?"
A New Dish.
Our Artist
Hunting Idiot,
Boxing-Day.
An Old Offender.
Irrevocable.
Mrs. Jingleton. Learning that Young M Skirlygy
Arcadian Amenities.
A Big Fish.
The Pic-Nic.
Artful—Very!
"The Grey Mare!"
How We Arrange Our Little Dinners.
Conclusive.
Our Manœuvres.
"Our Reserves,"—The Battle of Amesbury.
A Little Failing.
The Connoisseurs.
"Io Bacche!"
A Veteran.
"What's the Odds?"
"There's Many a Slip" &c.
Lingua "East Anglia."
A Luxurious Habit.
The Golden Age Restored.
"No Accounting for Taste."
Sold Cheap.
Selling Him a Pennyworth.
A Change for the Better.
Colloquial Equivalents.
"The Meat Supply."
"Tracts."
"A Ticket of Leave."
A Pleasant Prospect.
Reassuring.
Woman's Rights.
"Canny."
Stern Pulpit Critics.
The Commissariat.
Duty and Pleasure.
"Business!"
Sacrifice.
Extenuating Circumstances.
A Definition.
Mystification.
Obliging.
Our Theatricals.
Flattering.
Comparisons.
Delicately Put.
A Rash Refusal.
A Guilty Conscience.
Equal to the Situation.
The Convalescent.
Awkward!
"Suit Your Talk to Your Company."
Silly Suffolk (?) Pastorals. Reciprocity.
Lapsus Linguæ.
The Archery Meeting.
Grandiloquence
Levelling Up.
Rural Simplicity.
Catechism under Difficulties.
In Vino Memoria.
Mind and Matter.
Perspective!
Those Dreadful Boys!
Profanation.
"Turn About."
Making Things Pleasant.
Angling Extraordinary.
"Happy Thought."
Romance of the Kitchen.
"Compliments of the Season."
"Ready!"
Dear, Dear Boy!
"Brother Brush."
The Compliments of the (Sketching) Season.
A Pleasant Prospect.
Compliments of the Season.
Two Sides to a Question.
Suspicion!
Depression.
Reductio ad Absurdum.
"The More Haste the Less Speed."
The Point of View.
"Lucus a Non" &c.
Hyperbole.
Real Irish Grievance.
Our Inspection.
Hunting Appointments.
Encouraging!
"It's an Ill Wind" &c.
Particular!
The Last Word.
A Dilemma.
Too True!
"Once for All."
Up and Down Stairs.
Terms—Cash.
Gratitude.
Music of the Future. Sensation Opera.
Club Law.
"'High' Life Below Stairs!"
Wages and Wives.
Pursuit o' Knowledge!
A Nice Prospect!
Boon Companions!
Bereaved.
Geology.
The Morning Concert.
A Cool Card.
"Relapse."
"In Confidence."
"The Struggle for Existence."
A Satisfactory Character.
Hard Up on a Wet Day.
Incombinable Elements.
A Desperate Case!
"Bon Voyage!"
Personal!
"The Conscience Clause"
Education.
"Exempli Gratia."
Dignity.
A Woman-Hater.
When You are About it.
Sympathy.
The Run of the House.
"What Next?"
"The Servants."
Quite Superfluous.
"Noblesse Oblige."
The Beard Movement.
Too Late.
Music in the Midlands.
A Perfect Excuse.
"Fahrenheit."
Pleasuring!
Awkward!
He Thought He was Safe
Hygiene.
Considerate Criticism.
"The Finishing Touch!"
Á Fortiori.
"Nae That Fou!"
Hibernian Veracity.
Quite Another Thing.
A Fair Offer.
"The Way We Live Now."
Re-Assuring.
Well Meant.
Nature and Art.
Natural Advantages.
The Restraints of Society.
Simple Addition.
Secrets.
"A Parthian Shaft."
Sweet Simplicity.
Master of the Situation?!
Manners!
A Regular Turk!
"Incidit in Scyllam," &c.
What H. M. Civil Servants have to Endure.
Curious.
Anything for a Change.
Appearances.
From One Point of View.
Our Art-School Conversazione
Between Two Shoeblacks We Fall to, &c.
Im-pertinent.
Register! Register!!
"Not Proven."
An Evening's Fishing (Behind the Distillery at Sligo).
"The Harp in the Air."
Irish Ideal of Themis.
"Canny."
Irish Architecture.
Thrift.
Scruples.
A Bad Season.
"Familiarity breeds Contempt."
Intelligent!
The "Nimble Ninepence."
Menace.
"A Thing of Beauty."
Mixed Pickles.
The Trials of a District Visitor.
Legitimate Criticism.
"The Servants."
Pleasant for Simpkins!
A Misnomer.
"Winkles!"
"The Last (Co-operative) Feather."
Disaffection!
Zoology.
Extortion.
"Any Ornaments for your Fire-Stoves?"
Compliments of the Season.
On the Face of It.
Obvious Initiative.
Driving a Bargain.
Candid.
An Irish Model.
A Benediction!
Mrs. Frummage's Birthday Dinner-Party.
Confession.
A Stroke of Business.
Proper Reproof.
Little and Good.
"Mistakes Will Happen."
Brushing Pa's New Hat.
More Than One for His Nob.
A Passage of Arms.
Flunkeianum.
A Dilemma.
Lessons in the Vacation.
Wimbledon.
Wimbledon.
A Hardship.
"Like her Impudence."
"Too Bad!"
"It's the Pace that Kills."
The Gamut.
Garrison Instruction.
Cavalry Criticism.
"The Way we Had in the Army."
"An Officer and a Gentleman!"
"The Service going to, &c.!"
Presence of Mind.
"Bric á Brac."
Encouraging.
"Fine Art."
Our Reserves.
Badinage.
Particular to a Hair.
Chronology.
"Bus-Measure."
Tricks upon Travellers.
Quantity not Quality.
"A Woman of Business."
"Reason in Woman."
"Our Failures."
"Where there's a Will there's a Way!"
"Satisfactory!"
"Ha! Ha! The Wooin' O't!"
"The Way we Build now."
"In the Long Run."
Rather too Literal.
"Bon Voyage!"
"Fiat Experimentum," &c.
Irreverent.
Wet and Dry.
"Not so Fast!"
Banting in the Yeomanry.
Something from the Provinces.
Blank Firing.
CONTENTS.
Transcriber's Note:
The index has been moved from the beginning of the book to the end for the reader's convenience.
In the original book, there were two or three illustrations on each page. The illustrations have been enlarged and there is now one illustration on each page. The page numbers have been adjusted accordingly, for example the illustrations on page 102 are now on pages 102a, 102b and 102c.
The punctuation and spelling in the text are as printed in the original publication.