BARON DE BOOK-WORMS.

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"THE PLAYERS ARE COME!"

_First Player_ (_who has had a run of ill-luck_). I'm regularly
haunted by the recollection of my losses at Baccarat.

_Second Player_. Quite Shakspearian! "Banco's" Ghost.

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[Illustration: A PRIZE.

_Little Spiffkins._ "DON'T YOU THINK ONE MIGHT GET UP A DANCE HERE
SOME EVENING?"

_Young Brown._ "NOT GIRLS ENOUGH, MY BOY!"

_Little Spiffkins._ "NOT GIRLS ENOUGH! WHY, _I_'VE GOT TO KEEP 'EM OFF
ME WITH A STICK!"]

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CONVERSATIONAL HINTS FOR YOUNG SHOOTERS.

LUNCH (_continued_).--How delightful it is to awaken interest in the
female breast, to make the heart of lovely woman go pit-pat, as her