The mendicant's rags, it should be added, are from one of our most
celebrated slop-shops in the Ratcliff Highway.

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[Illustration: TRIUMPH OF ART OVER NATURE.

_Serious Artist_. "I THINK YOU KNEW THE MODEL FOR THIS FIGURE--POOR
BEGGAR, DEAF AND DUMB."

_Light-hearted Friend_. "I KNOW,--USED TO SIT AT CORNER OF STREET.
DEAF AND DUMB! BY JOVE, YOU'VE MADE A _SPEAKING_ LIKENESS OF HIM!
WONDERFUL!!"]

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"THERE'S THE RUB!"

(_AN OLD STORY WITH A NEW APPLICATION._)

_Champion Bill-Poster, loquitur_:--

"Bill-stickers beware!" Ah! that's all very well,
A wondrously wise, if conventional, warning.
But _I_'m the legitimate "Poster"--a swell
In the paste-pot profession, all "notices" scorning.
A brush surreptitious, and Bills unofficial,
No doubt, are a nuisance to people of taste,
To Order offensive, to Law prejudicial,
But who can object to _my_ pot and _my_ paste?