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LINES ON A PHOTOGRAPH.

DOWNEY has photographed "the FIFES" at home.
Aha! Domestic music! FIFE and "drum "!

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[Illustration: MR. PUNCH ON TOUR. A LITTLE HOLIDAY IN WALES.]

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OUR REAL DESIDERATUM.

(_BY A "WELL-INFORMED" FOOL._)

Ah! I was fogged by the Materialistic,
By HUXLEY and by ZOLA, KOCH and MOORE;
And now there comes a Maëlstrom of the Mystic,
To whirl me further yet from sense's shore.
Microbes were much too much for me, bacilli
Bewildered me, and phagocytes did daze,
But now the author 'cute of "Piccadilly,"
HARRIS the Prophet, the BLAVATSKY craze,
Thibet, Theosophy, and Bounding Brothers--
No, Mystic Ones--Mahatmas I _should_ say,
But really they seem so much like the others
In slippery agility!--day by day
Mystify me yet more. Those germs were bad enough,