colour. The subject is this:--After an ample school-feast, the girls
sat drowsily under an orange-tree, when they were suddenly startled
by the appearance of a snake. "Don't be frightened, Betsy Jane," cried
Anna Maria, the eldest; "'ee won't 'urt yer, 'ee only comes from the
Lowther Harkade." Sir Fred. Leighton, Bart., P.R.A.]

No. 211. "_Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind._"--_As You Like It._ But we
_don't_ like it--we mean, the wind, of course. Oh, so desolate and
dreary! We suppose that in order to keep himself warm, Sir JOHN must
have been thoroughly wrapped up in his work when he painted this. Sir
J.E. MILLAIS, Bart., R.A.

No. 228. "_The Great Auk's Egg._" "Auk-ward moment: is it genuine or
not? He bought it at an Auk-tion; it had probably been auk'd about
before, genuine or not There'll be a _great tauk (!)_ about it," says
H.S. MARKS, R.A.

No. 238. "With a little pig here and a little cow here,
Here a sheep and there a sheep and everywhere a sheep."

_Old Song_, illustrated by SIDNEY COOPER, R.A.

[Illustration: No. 458. "Peas and War." Club Committee ordering
dinner. See corner figure (L.H. of picture) with Cookery Book. The
Steward says, "We can't have peas." Mr. J.S. B-lf-r remonstrates
strongly, "What! not have peas? Nonsense!" That's how the row began,
and they "gave him beans." "A limner then his visage caught," and
managed the awkward subject so as to please everybody; which the
limner's name is Hubert Herkomer, R.A.]