to "make you please."

I always present ADOLF with ten shillings--five on arrival, and five
on departure. This procures me many harmless little privileges; and
when old BROWN calls him an impertinent brute, I know that BROWN and
ten shillings are difficult to part.

There is nothing ADOLF will not do for you for a sovereign--but I
cannot run to this; and yet this is the impression he has made.

* * * * *

[Illustration: A LITTLE VAGUE!

_Affable Landlady_ (_to her new Artist Lodger_), "AND I SUPPOSE, SIR,
YOU COMES FROM ABROAD!"

_Foreign Lodger_. "SO! I GOME VROM AUSTRIA."

_A.L._ "DO YOU HINDEED, SIR? FROM HOSTRIA! AH! HOW THAT'S WHERE THE
HOSTRICHES COMES FROM, I SUPPOSE?!!"]

* * * * *

AN OLD AND NEW PEER.

DEAR MR. PUNCH,--Look here! I've done good service in my time, and
no one likes to see himself deprived of an honoured title, or forced
to take a back seat. I've been trodden under-foot over and over
again--but I've borne it with fortitude, and never, never given way.