THE PAINT!"

_His Prudent Little Wife._. "OH, JOHN DEAR, HOW EXTRAVAGANT OF YOU!
_IT'LL NEVER COME OUT!_"]

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THE ADOPTED CHILD.

"Last year the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER frittered away his
resources in a number of small remissions, for which hardly
anyone was grateful. This year he squanders the greater
part of his surplus in providing for Free, or--as the phrase
is--Assisted Education--an innovation for which there is
hardly any genuine demand, and which a very large class of the
community, including many of the most loyal supporters of the
Government, view with rooted distrust."--_The Standard_.

MRS. GAMP (_the "Old Regular_") _loquitur_:--

"More changes, too, to come afore we have done with changes!"
Ah! I said that to good Mister MOULD years agone; which 'ow memory
ranges
All over them dear "Good Old Times," as I wish them wos back agen,
bless 'em!
Which the new ones ain't much to _my_ mind; there's too many fresh
"monthlies" to mess 'em.
No; monthlying ain't wot it were; the perfession's too open, a lump.
Nusses now ain't no more like old SAIREY, no not than the old Aldgit
Pump.