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[Illustration: "WHEN A MAN DOES NOT LOOK HIS BEST."--NO. 1.

WHEN HE MAGNANIMOUSLY CONSENTS TO GO ON THE PLATFORM AT A CONJURING
PERFORMANCE, AND UNWONTED OBJECTS ARE PRODUCED FROM HIS INSIDE
POCKETS.]

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TO THE GRAND OLD CRICKETER.

Dear Dr. GRACE, the season through
You've struggled on, and striven gamely;
Your leg, for all you've tried to do,
Has made your record come out lamely;
Your county suffers, too, with you;
Your failures very dear have cost her.
But better luck in 'ninety-two
To you, old friend, and good old Gloucester!

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THE MODERN CAGLIOSTRO; OR, THE POWER OF THE SPIRITS.

(_A PAGE FROM A ROMANCE UP TO DATE._)

And so PETER, learning that the veteran Alchymist was to be seen on
the presentation of a small coin of the realm, approached the old