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[Illustration: A GOOD BEGINNING.

_Uncle Jack_ (_Umpire_). "LOVE ALL!"

_Monsieur le Baron_. "LOVE ALL? PARBLEU! JE CROIS BIEN! ZEY ARE
_ADORABLES_, YOUR NIECES!"]

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PAN THE POSTER.

(_A MODERN PERVERSION OF MRS. BROWNING'S POWERFUL POEM, "A MUSICAL
INSTRUMENT."_)

["We are presented just now with two spectacles, which may
help us to take modest and diffident views of the progress of
the species.... At home there is an utterly unreasonable and
unaccountable financial panic among the depositors in the
Birkbeck Bank, while in America the free and enlightened
democracy of a portion of New York State has suddenly relapsed
into primitive barbarism under the influence of fear of
cholera."--_The Times_.]

What is he doing, our new god Pan,
Far from the reeds and the river?
Spreading mischief and scattering ban,
Screening 'neath "knickers" his shanks of a goat,