43. Somebody's Luggage. S. Canty.
44. Eusebius. B. Linkers.
45. Happy Childhood. Wackford Squeers.
46. Not Such a Fool as He Looks. The Exhibitor.
47. A Choice Collection of Old China.
48. A Fine Specimen of Local Quartz Discovered in the Possession of a
Workman.
During the Building of the New Town Hall.
49. The Skull of the Last of the Mohicans.
50. A Marble Group.
51. Bust.
52. The Puzzle.
53. The Instantaneous Kid Reviver.
54. The Earnest Entreaty.

EXPLANATION

Anyone not in the secret, perusing the above catalogue, would naturally
conclude that the descriptions referred to pictorial art of some kind
or other. But such is by no means the case. The visitor, on being
admitted, finds, in place of the expected pictures, shelves or tables
on which are arranged sundry very commonplace objects, each bearing
a numbered ticket. On close examination he finds that the numbers
correspond with those in the catalogue, and that No. 1, "Horse
Fair"--fare--is represented after a realistic fashion by a handful of
oats and a wisp of hay. No. 2, which he expected to find a spirited
marine sketch, is in reality only a toothbrush lying beside a
jack-plane; while the supposed companion picture, "Caught in a Squall
Off Yarmouth," is represented by a red herring. No. 4, "The Last of
Poor Dog Tray," is a sausage, and the exhibitor particularly begs that