Yours,

_Elbow Room Club_.

BEAU WINDER.


SIR,--"Why not live out of London?" _Because one can't._ Out
of London there is only "existence." Is life worth living
anywhere except in London--and Paris; if you happen to be
there? No, no; those who like living "out of London," had
better not live at all.

Yours,

HIPPY CURE.

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MR. PUNCH'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASES.

PRIVATE THEATRICALS.

"_Tisn't a part that I_ feel, _and I fear I shall make a failure;"
i.e.,_ "Easy as be blowed, but _I_'m thrown away upon it."


TRADE EMBELLISHMENTS.

"_The Ching-Twangs Central China Tea Company's selected growth of