,illustration ,m,r4 ,,punch',s ,,animal ,,land ,illustration ,illustration ,mr4 ,punch's ,,animal ,,land4 ,,drawn ,,written ,,by ,e4 ,t4 ,reed4 maker of ,,prehistoric ,,peeps4 3,,bradbury1 ,,agnew ,co3 ,,london ,,prefiss4 ,there is two kinds of prefisses one if it is by yourself and the other if you get a swell riter to do it for you4 ,i'm going to do it by myself because ,i have done the talk undeneath the picktures so nice that ,i think people would be greviously diseppointed if ,mr4 ,andrew ,lang or someboddy was to do it instead like he did for ,sybil ,corbetts book 7thats the other little girl what started ,animal ,land74 ,he did it awfull nice of course and then you can get such nice things into it about your grate tallent and your emaggynation if he does it4 ,he is so lerned and drags in illusions to other grate authers but when you can auth as nice as what ,i can there isnt realy no need4 ,if you do it yourself you must appolergise for it all 7they allways do7 and say it shall not accurr again4 ,i am quite at the openning of my corea 7,i saw that in the papers7 so ,i want ellowances made for my stile and imperfect penship--,i want it all put down to yewth4 ,i have done allmost all the most knowtable ,animals--you cant do evryboddy when youve got musick and depportment to do too4 7,i never thaught ,i would get to riting a ,preffiss but it is abserdly easey47 ,p4,s4 ,i lernt to draw off the ,veenus of ,mealo and that doesnt help you very much with these picktures4 ,they are mostly a diffrent stile of art alltogether4 ,contents4 #a4 ,the ,hark4 #b4 ,the ,balph4 #c4 ,the ,shur4 #d4 ,the ,oom4 #e4 ,the ,mailyphist4 #f4 ,the ,pawkywit4 #g4 ,the ,jook4 #h4 ,the ,benchiboss4 #i4 ,the ,labb4 #aj4 ,the ,bujjithatcha4 #aa4 ,the ,wheedlepat4 #ab4 ,the ,goash4 #ac4 ,the ,leck4 #ad4 ,the ,stagynite4 #ae4 ,the ,ruddikipple4 #af4 ,the ,bobbz4 #ag4 ,the ,showt4 #ah4 ,the ,painticheef4 #ai4 ,the ,tadd4 #bj4 ,the ,zolafite4 #ba4 ,the ,woolz4 #bb4 ,the ,klark4 #bc4 ,the ,jappypote4 #bd4 ,the ,bildaphleet4 #be4 ,the ,sullivan4 #bf4 ,the ,skippydan4 #bg4 ,the ,aird4 #bh4 ,the ,coneydoil4 #bi4 ,the ,timm4 #cj4 ,the ,leedabar4 #ca4 ,the ,trimmadome4 #cb4 ,the ,wagg4 #cc4 ,the ,jingonite4 #cd4 ,the ,hyah-hyah4 #ce4 ,the ,kurnle4 #cf4 ,the ,yauk4 #cg4 ,the ,punchiboss4 #ch4 ,the ,morl4 #ci4 ,the ,fowla4 #dj4 ,the ,kortnee4 #da4 ,the ,padd4 #db4 ,the ,thrums4 #dc4 ,the ,tobymp4 #dd4 ,the ,weeda4 #de4 ,the ,tree4 #df4 ,the ,lorryit4 #dg4 ,the ,ellen4 #dh4 ,the ,sarabee4 #di4 ,the ,villistanph4 #ej4 ,the ,octavus4 #ea4 ,the ,phil4 #eb4 ,the ,wunnudiddit4 ,the ,hark ,no #a4 7,sir ,william ,harcourt47 ,jugging by his exspresion ,i should say he has just heard of some millyonnares that is past recuvry4 ,illustration3 ,the ,hark ,this ,animal lives in a ,resess in the ,forest and eats ,orkids and ,primroses4 ,when there is ,krisisses and things about he chuckles---- ,he has a ,party but it is mostly not there4 ,the ,balph ,no #b4 7,mr4 ,arthur ,balfour47 ,why4 ,ive left out his unkle who is a moddle of peliteness to foriners4 ,he goes in for ,peace with--anything4 ,illustration3 ,the ,balph ,this fascinating ,animal lives chiefly in a bunker and feeds on stymies1 cleeks1 and voats of censure it is very clever and has no ennemies but it simply wont4 ,the ,shuv ,no #c4 7,mr4 ,chamberlain47 ,this is not a flattring likness but there is a great fassination about its rite eye if you look close ,illustration3 ,the ,shuv ,this ,animal is a caution4 ,it gets the best of it4 ,it likes to live in hot water and has a nasty bite4 ,it is better to go the other way ,the ,oom ,no #d4 7,president ,kruger47 ,i wonder why they say this is mannifessly inflewnced by ,landsere at his best4 ,illustration3 ,the ,oom ,this strange old ,animal is a wily one4 ,he is very clever and disslikes strangers4 ,its not a bit of good to try to coax him he only says rude things and then prays and sings hyms4 ,the ,shuv has tried him all round but he only grunts and goes on praying ,the ,mailyphist or ,gossplespredda ,no #e4 7,prince ,henry of ,prussia47 ,the ,kyow ,chyow ,vissitors ,list says this is probelly a remarkable peece of portritcher4 ,it is all theyve seen of him yet4 ,his voige is certenly somwhat pretracted4 ,illustration3 ,the ,mailyphist or ,gossplespredda ,this queer little animal lives on the sea as there is not room for two of them in ,germany ,it crawls about trying to get to ,china to fetch some laurels and to plant shields and cathedrils and things4 ,if you have such a thing as a little coal about you it will be very much obliged4 ,it will get there some day ,i seppose4 ,the ,pawkywit ,no #f4 7,lord ,rosebery47 ,i have been rather seccessfull in getting the eger hopeful look into the futesher in his eyes havnt ,i ,illustration3 ,the ,pawkywit ,this dear little ,animal likes to run on the turf and that makes the good ones start praying for him4 ,it does not like the ,hark and has a dainty little way of hiding itself among books and then it waits and waits and waits---- ,the ,jook ,no #g4 7,duke of ,devonshire47 ,the backround of this pickture is considered by some to be my masterpeace4 ,they say it is just like a ,corrow4 ,i daresay it is4 ,illustration3 ,the ,jook ,this ,animal is very trustworthy but he is always fast asleep4 ,he would much rather you did it if you dont mind4 ,the ,benchiboss ,no #h4 7,lord ,halsbury47 ,oh6 ,i forgot all about the ,marquises--they come first4 ,that is an ovasite6 ,what a funny little dumpy he is6 ,illustration3 ,the ,benchiboss ,this funny little ,creature is very kind and never forgets a friend4 ,he lives on a ,woolsack and gives away things----,he has got a ,earlship for been so good and clever so he comes next after the ,joox4 ,the ,labb ,no #i4 7,mr4 ,labouchere47 ,i thought this would be baught for the town-hawl at northamten but some malline influense must have been at work ,illustration3 ,the ,labb ,this queer little ,creature does not like roads nor peers4 ,it likes to get into shady places and drag things out into the light4 ,if you pretend the ,hess is coming it will run into ,wesminster ,abbey or anywhere ,the ,bujjit-,hatcha or ,hicksybeech ,no #aj4 7,sir ,m4 ,hicks-,beach47 ,he does look a little bare and draughty4 ,he would have looked better with his surplus on ,i think4 ,illustration3 ,the ,bujjit-,hatcha or ,hicksybeech ,this ,animal is always trying to balance things with a little over to one side4 ,it is very nice and plainspoken4 ,it comes up to every front-door just to see how you are getting on and get a little something in the pound----,it lives on beer and tobacco and tin-tackses ,the ,wheedlepat ,no #aa4 7,mr4 ,gerald ,balfour47 ,the criticks say this is a life-like pressenment and the flesh-tints are remarkeble for there lewminosserty4 ,illustration3 ,the ,wheedlepat ,this gracefull and culcherd ,creature has a very skillful way of getting on the right side of people4 ,they thought at first it was a fish out of water but that was quite wrong4 ,it looks awfull solemm and poetick but that is wrong too4 ,it is very kind and goes into every shanty and cracks jokes and pats the pig4 ,it has got a most bewtifull bill coming which works like majick ,it lives on shammrocks and stetististicks with a few batons sometimes--for rellish ,the ,goash ,no #ab4 7,mr4 ,goschen47 ,you should hear his riddle about when a lock-out is not a lock-out4 ,it is screemingly funny and evrybody has to give it up6 ,illustration3 ,the ,goash ,this odd little salt-water ,animal is very good at sums and gets on pretty well with the ,esstimits4 ,but if you ask him anything very dificult he runs under the gallery to get the answer4 ,when strikes is on he is very kind and doesnt expeck no ships finished--he looks the other way ,the ,leck ,no #ac4 7,professor ,lecky47 ,it seems a grate risk for this one to ventcher out into a rough rude world4 ,i wonder how he gets over the crossings4 ,illustration3 ,the ,leck ,this gentle ,creature is very kind and winsome so everybody likes it4 ,it has a wonderfull brain and knows a lot4 ,when it sees a ,artiss about it folds up and tries to look like part of the ,dado4 ,it is almost a sin to make its picture4 ,the ,stagynite ,no #ad4 7,sir ,henry ,irving47 ,some people considder this riting very rude--it certenly is not foolsome in its prays4 ,illustration3 ,the ,stagynite ,this funny ,creature gets up things very nicely4 ,when people go to see it it makes the queerest noises and stamps on the floor and drags itself about4 ,i expect he says it all right but you cant tell ,the ,ruddikipple ,no #ae4 7,mr4 ,rudyard ,kipling47 ,they say ,i have idellised him rather but ,i cant help it if ,i have4 ,illustration3 ,the ,ruddikipple ,this little ,animal is very strong and viggrous and knows everything4 ,if anybody tries to beat it it brings out a fresh tail and then nobody cant touch that either4 ,it stirs everybody up so it would make a pew-opener want to die for his country4 ,if a ,lorryit shews his nose it just squashes him flat4 ,the ,bobbz ,no #af4 7,lord ,roberts47 ,this is quite a battle-pickture4 ,the handling seggests mysonnyer4 ,i seem wonderfly versytial4 ,illustration3 ,the ,bobbz ,this tiny little ,animal is all pluck and is full of beans1 but he does not try to spread himself like some do4 ,directly an ennemy shews his nose he has a neat little way of pulling it off4 ,all soldiers like him though he took them very long walks sometimes4 ,he has got such a lot of meddles he has to leave most of them in the cloakroom4 ,the ,showt ,no #ag4 7,mr4 ,john ,burns47 ,this is another full-face pickture4 ,i cant do many more of them6 ,illustration3 ,the ,showt ,this little ,animal is very honest and likes to fight4 ,it has a very big voice on both sides--whichever it likes4 ,it likes to get on a waggon in the ,park and call out about wellth and capicklists and things4 ,it sounds better out of doors4 ,the ,painticheef ,no #ah4 7,sir ,e4 ,j4 ,poynter47 ,i have heard he thaught the droring of this very deaft and mastelly4 ,i should have thaught it was a oppertewnety for the ,chantrey ,fun but ,i have herd nothing as yet4 ,illustration3 ,the ,painticheef4 ,this ,animal is wonderfull clever and lerned and plays at marbles with the ,tadd4 ,he stands at the top of the stairs in among the plants and goes on shaking hands with them all as they come up untill he falls back exorsted4 ,then they prop him up with ferns and collums and things and he just bows till daylite4 ,he has got two awfull nice possitions to stand in too4 ,he keeps a warn comfitable home in ,traffalger ,square for old worn out masters of schools that are shut up4 ,he is dredfull particular who he takes in4 ,he wont have them if they have gone cracked4 7,i shall send this pickture to the ,accaddermy--he may like to put it on the line in the ,blacking-,white ,room7 ,the ,tadd ,no #ai4 7,mr4 ,alma ,tadema47 ,i cant help it if this did make ,mister ,briton ,rivvyare go green with envy4 ,it must be ennoying to see an outsighder do it so nice4 ,illustration3 ,the ,tadd ,this little ,animal is awfull good at marbles4 ,nobody cant do it like him4 ,he knows all about the ancients and what kind of boots they wore on sundays and just how they use to sit about and throw roses and make refflections on things in genneral4 ,they didn't do much else according to him4 ,you can always tell where one of his picktures is by the crowd of artisses round it--all putting their noses agenst it and then steping back and striking silly atetudes4 ,he has got such a big voice that as fast as they stick the picktures up1 it shakes them all down again ,the ,zolafite ,no #bj4 7,m4 ,emile ,zola47 ,this is diseppointing as a work of ,art ,illustration3 ,the ,zolafite ,this ,animal is very bold and currageous4 ,he is very clever at his work but he gets very broad in places4 ,the lower down things are the harder he tries to get them out4 ,the ,troof is buried very deep just now and that is what he is looking for4 ,so they are all dancing with rage and say he is a ,itallian ,the ,woolz ,no #ba4 7,lord ,wolseley47 ,sybil ,corbett must be awfuly mad to see me droring as good as this4 ,there is hardly a trase of the ammerchewer4 ,illustration3 ,the ,woolz ,this brilliant little ,creature is a fearfull fiter he is all over glory and titals and ilectrick-lights ,he likes to have his battles ready overnight then he does them in the erly morning before the milkman calls when everyone else is in bed and asleep4 ,he gets all the powder and baynits and cammerers and repporters ready and it can all be in the papers the same day4 ,then he prases everyboddy else for fiting so nobbly--it sounds just like ,waterlew--but somehow there is not so very many killed though it does look so terrible in the lime-lite4 ,that is his cleverness ,i expeckt4 ,parlyment allways thanks him for it--he certanly does make a neat job of it and he has such a nice way of bringing home umbrellas and torture-chambers and things to show he has really been there4 ,if he does anything else he will have to be made a ,jookdom4 ,the ,klark ,no #bb4 7,sir ,edward ,clarke47 ,this is a study in teckstchers and keeraskewroh--and a speaking likeness as well ,illustration3 ,the ,klark ,this clever little ,animal is a terror to fight4 ,he covers himself up in silk and horsehair every day and then he runs along passages and pops into all sorts of diffrent cases one after another and draws a nice little screw out of them too4 ,there isnt no need to be hanged while you can get him 7,i think this is nicer drawn than most of my picktures--,i do hope he'll like it7 ,the ,jappypote or ,lytervaysha ,no #bc4 7,sir ,e4 ,arnold47 ,i hear he has a lovly shrine to write in at the ,daly ,tellegraff office and the offise-boy burns ,joss-sticks at him every harf hour4 ,it helps him to write nicer4 ,illustration3 ,the ,jappypote or ,lytervaysha ,this little ,animal writes such nice potery4 ,he is found at all swarries with his chest smotherd all over with stars and krisanthenums and rising suns and other ornaments4 ,he has heard the ,east a calling so he doesnt like ,london there is not enough houris and dymios and things about4 ,they say he is growing a pig-tail--he feels so orientle ,the ,reed or ,bildaphleet ,no #bd4 7,sir ,e4 ,j4 ,reed47 ,he says he did send his son to ,harrow what more could he do6 ,spelling must have been an extrer ,i should think ,it is a distressing site to see the way he does it4 ,illustration3 ,the ,reed or ,bildaphleet ,this splendid but desining ,animal is awfull good at shipps4 ,he has a curious little taste for liking them to keep on the surfiss and flote the right way up which was very annoying to the ammerchures who mannage these things for us so nicely in parlyment4 ,he is full of strength and boyancy and stebbility there isnt no one quite like him ,i think--so is his shipps they seem to last for ever as good as new4 ,he writes such viggrous letters that is a moddle of riting and he is a good powett to4 ,it is a grate pity he didnt teach his son how to spell he seems to get worse and worse--he is a perfeckt dissgrase4 ,the ,sullivan ,no #be4 7,sir ,arthur ,sullivan47 ,i had the esistents of the leading musickle exspurts in aranging the musick on him ,illustration3 ,the ,sullivan ,this little ,creature is full of the most lovly tewnes and all other kinds of musick4 ,nobody didnt know how humerous wind-instrymants was till he did it4 ,he will get a trombown or a hoboy to talk just for all the world like a rettired curnel only funnier--it will make you ake with laughing4 ,he writes the most holy tewnes too and makes you fancy you are soring about with other angels in the upper-boxes4 7,i wrote this wile goveness was out of the room--she would say it was awfull irevrent ,i exspect7 ,the ,skippydan or ,droorileno ,no #bf4 7,mr4 ,dan ,leno47 ,i have had the nicest complements on this picture from ,royal ,ecademisians4 ,they say it is so full of veuve4 ,illustration3 ,the ,skippydan or ,droorileno ,this dear little ,animal is never still for a moment though it is full of wheezes4 ,he is very proud of his feet--you can see them if you look carefully4 ,sculpters rave about him--they say he is so stattuwesk ,the ,aird or ,dammynile ,no #bg4 7,mr4 ,john ,aird47 ,the back-rownd seen of this pictture is laid at ,filey-the-,bewtifull where the damms is to take place ,illustration3 ,the ,aird or ,dammynile ,this kind ,animal is allways so pleased to see you4 ,he is very enterprising and has a funny way of contrackting himself and getting into the bed of a river and blocking it all up till it runs over4 ,i should think the whole place will be full of crockerdials and irrigators and things4 ,he has such a bewtifull beard--it looks as if he would make a very nice prophet1 dont you think so ,the ,coneydoil or ,shurlacombs ,no #bh4 7,dr4 ,conan ,doyle47 ,this is a ,alpyne seen4 ,please notise the way ,i have got the glare off the snow4 ,illustration3 ,the ,coneydoil or ,shurlacombs ,this big friendly ,creature is very shrood and saggacious4 ,if he finds a footprint he can tell you what colored hair it has and whether it is a libbral or a conservetive--which is very clever ,i think4 ,he plays all games and always makes a hundred4 ,he likes to run through the ,strand with his tail in parts--all of them strong and healthy--then he colects it all together and it runs for a long time by itself ,the ,timm ,no #bi4 7,mr4 ,timothy ,healy47 ,i find profeels ever so much easier--there is only one eye to restle with for one thing4 ,illustration3 ,the ,timm ,this prickly biting little ,animal is about the cleverest of them4 ,he turns his back round to the others so you can see he hasnt got hardly any tail behind him4 ,he has a precius nasty sting though all the same that will give you fits if you irretate him--it will make you wish you were at some quiet see-side place4 ,he use to bellong to a party of seventy but he has turned the other sixty-nine out into the cold ,the ,leedabar or ,dikkiwebbsta ,no #cj4 7,sir ,richard ,webster47 ,there is few drawings that has rowsed more pubblick inthewsiasum than this one ,illustration3 ,the ,leedabar or ,dikkiwebbsta ,this able ,animal has such a noble brain that there is only just room for it4 ,it can't get any higher without going right out of the ,house4 ,it sings like a bird and says it fears no foe in shining armer but hymms seems to suit it best ,i think4 ,everybody likes it as long as it doesnt get singing4 ,it tried to make a apollergy once but it was dredfully lame and couldnt4 ,it lives on parchment and staind-glass4 ,the ,trimmadome or ,willirich ,no #ca4 7,sir ,william ,richmond47 ,i did enjoy doing his hair4 ,it is done like that ,cleo de ,merroads6 ,illustration3 ,the ,trimmadome or ,willirich ,this pleasant little ,creature lives up inside a dome over a whispring gallery and spends all his time sticking on nice little pictures and patterns4 ,you cant see much of them from downstairs but he says they are all quite relligious and he is very relliable ,the ,wagg or ,tommibole ,no #cb4 7,mr4 ,gibson ,bowles47 ,mr ,spielman says this remarkable work is reddolent of the sea and the droring of the wave-forms is worthy of ,hook or ,eyrecrow4 ,illustration3 ,the ,wagg or ,tommibole ,this humorous little ,creature is very shy and moddest4 ,it lives on salt-water and blue-books and what it doesnt know isnt worth a dead star-fish4 ,when questions is on it has a nice little way of rubbing things in4 ,it is always there ,the ,jingonite or ,yankiturk ,no #cc4 7,sir ,e4 ,ashmead ,bartlett47 ,noboddy wasnt ever so pattriottic about other peoples countries as what he is ,illustration3 ,the ,jingonite or ,yankiturk ,this odd little ,animal did not grow here you would think it had to hear it talk4 ,when it starts saving the ,empier and singing ,rule ,britannyer very loud they only look at the ceiling and talk about the weather and how long this is likely to last ,the ,hyah-,hyah or ,fisklekrank ,no #cd4 7,sir ,c4 ,howard ,vincent47 ,he is a grate vollenteer too4 ,he is a mixtcher of ,moltky and ,prince ,ruepert at menoovers ,illustration3 ,the ,hyah-,hyah or ,fisklekrank ,this popular ,animal wants to know where everything comes from--then he scribbles all over it4 ,i believe it would label its grandmother4 ,if it can get anybody to meddle with fiskle things it is quite happy and cheers like winking4 ,it has got a cheer that is so loud that ,i exspect it will be quite out of order soon4 ,the ,kurnle or ,armaghda ,no #ce4 7,colonel ,saunderson47 ,i hear he has had this framed for an air-lewm4 ,illustration3 ,the ,kurnle or ,armaghda ,this puggnacious ,animal is allways thirsting for slaurter4 ,he has made himself such a nice dry ditch to die in if he can get the others to come on4 ,he wears his coats all out dragging them along the flore so that somebody may step on them4 ,if he can get anyboddy to stop and look he will eat fire like one o'clock--but it isnt real4 ,just at present he is taking the hat round4 ,everboddy likes him tho he is such a dessprit charakter and so full of bloodtherstyniss4 ,he draws nicely too--all exept swords--in fact he is quite a carickachuriss--like me1 only ,i'm a perfeshernal ,the ,yauk or ,rompyjack ,no #cf4 7,lord ,charles ,beresford47 ,the criticks say ,i have happily renderd the sea-brease bloing through his epithettes4 ,illustration3 ,the ,yauk or ,rompyjack ,this merry little ,animal makes a good deal of noise and never runs4 ,he is quite at home under fire or water4 ,he just does it and thats all4 ,the ,punchiboss or ,ephsee,bee ,no #cg4 7,mr4 ,f4 ,c4 ,burnand47 ,this pickture and the nice ritin had a wonderfull bennyfishle effeckt on his state of helth ,illustration3 ,the ,punchiboss or ,ephsee,bee ,this humrous little ,creature has a most commical brain--full of happey thaughts4 ,he settles on everything directly you put it in front of him4 ,he is awfull kind to chilldren so he gives me great enkurygment when ,i do my picktures nice enough which is allmost allways now4 ,he does buzz round you though and prod you up4 ,he likes to get a good run on the boards sometimes4 ,he has a skillful little way of knocking off a piece if it comes in his way--he is very strong in the wings4 ,he has got a awfull clever lot of drawers and riters together--all of them genyusses and tipes of english beuty4 7,i must get this put in sometime when he is away--he might not like me to berlesk him after his polliteness and forceheight in letting me beggin so young47 ,the ,morl or ,philopat ,no #ch4 7,mr4 ,john ,morley47 ,it is a shame to make such a nice gentleman look so plain4 ,there is no dowt ,i am not a flattrer4 ,illustration3 ,the ,morl or ,philopat ,this kind honnest ,animal is very fond of dubblin and like to play at billding a house on the green for them to fite in4 ,he is wearing the green right through with trying so hard4 ,when he is on the steemer he nails things on to the mast4 ,it is very odd he sits for ,scotland and stands up for ,ireland4 ,he is a bewtifull talker and riter and goveness says he is a pewriss in stile 7watever does she mean74 ,he is strugling to learn the sord-dance over two umbrellas4 ,it is awfull hard though and he keeps all on kicking his ankells till he has to sit down on the flore--then he plays on the bag-pipes like the heeros in ,india but the neybours do complain so he will have to give it up or ellse move into another districkt ,the ,fowla ,no #ci4 7,sir ,h4 ,h4 ,fowler47 ,the ,maggasene of ,art thinks very highly of this one--the ,morbydetser of it is so fine it says4 ,i seppose theyre right ,illustration3 ,the ,fowla ,this abill ,animal is wonderfull strong and shrood and it can ,jump up and carry the whole house along with it if it likes to4 ,it is very sollid and watey and has got a large dessenting body behind it4 ,it knows all about howdahs and rajahs and things and it can turn pounds and shillings into roopees while you wait4 ,it knows the diffrence bitween a millitry road and a footpath and if it made it itself or if someone else did--which is more than some peeple do4 ,it can make the ,jorgiehammle wish he had never had a birthday4 ,it is a very nice corteer and queens like it imensely4 ,it wears a indian shorl on state occajions1 it doesnt fancy kilts4 ,it is leeder of the libbral party--so is about half a dozen others too--they all do it at once but it dosnt matter much ,just now ,the ,kortnee ,no #dj4 7,mr4 ,leonard ,courtney47 ,i wish the riting would not come so long but ,i'm ackwiring such profishensy that ,i cant bring myself to short ones4 ,illustration3 ,the ,kortnee ,this ,animal has got a head full of rules and reggulatians4 ,it is awfull fond of all kinds of riddles4 the ones it likes best are those noboddy cant make head or tail of--the abstuser the better4 ,they make your hair all come off to think of them4 ,he use to sit in a chair and see they all behaved4 ,he did it so nicely that they mesured him for a bigger chair but it fitted someone else best so he lives in a tub now like ,diodgiknees4 ,he gives awfull nice lecktures to passers-by and says order order to himself4 ,he wants to have members of parlyment all diffrent sizes according to the waight of the voaters--he calls it prepporshnal repprisentatian 7,i hope ,i have spellt it right7 isnt it silly4 ,he is a leeder of fashion4 ,he has got a pattent westcote of a very funny colour that is most becomming4 ,they say he comes out all over brass buttens at night--he must look radiently bewtifull4 ,the ,padd ,no #da4 7,m4 ,paderewski47 ,isnt it rather a sub-aubern tipe of face--not quite what you would exspeckt considdring the fuss4 ,illustration3 ,the ,padd4 ,this curious little ,creature never comes out in the same place only about once a year--that keeps his vallew up4 ,they take him round in a selloon carrige with his name very large on the outside hermiticly seeld and deckerated with maden-hare ferns and rare browcades4 ,they stop at the towns and let him out to play for a few minutes and then all the ladies in dabbly dresses weep and gassp and shreek out ,divvine6 andsettra and rush about after him till the pollice steps in--then they kiss the legs of the piyanno and mone for a fortnight after4 ,he looks more like a mopp than anything ,i think4 ,the ,thrums ,no #db4 7,mr4 ,j4 ,m4 ,barrie47 ,i dont mean to say he doesnt bat very nice but he might just as well go for long drives out into the country4 ,illustration3 ,the ,thrums ,this dellightful little ,creature is very retiring and knows a intervure direckly by his stelthy tredd4 ,when he hears one he runs like litening and gets under the sofer-cushions or inside the peyanno or crawls in under the slates till it is all over4 ,he use to live in a old licht-house once4 ,he is a marvelus mixture of the most commical humour and the most beutiful paythoss4 ,he is a reggular ,ramsgitsingey at cricket4 ,he was to have gone to ,orstralia with ,mr ,stodert but they thought it was better for the ,empire that he should not4 ,you should see him snick them among the slippers 7,i hope that is right47 ,when he goes in to bat the fielders all come close up to him just to take hints in batting4 ,the ,tobymp or ,luciwits ,no #dc4 7,mr4 ,h4 ,w4 ,lucy47 ,i had to leave the ralings out or else you wouldnt have seen him at all ,illustration3 ,the ,tobymp or ,luciwits ,this brilliant little ,creature perches up in a gallery and peeps through the ralings and brings out the most wonderfull pennytrating notes4 ,he prettends to be asleep but he is all the wide-awaker really4 ,he has the most lovely head of hair--they say it is some kind of ,essence what he has made up himself that makes it come so luxuryous4 ,he rubs it into the members too sometimes but he has such a plessant skilful little way of doing it all round and just touching on the points of their bills that they rather like it ,i believe ,the ,weeda ,no #dd4 7,ouida47 ,i had no idea ,i could do hair so natcheral as this or ,i would have done it bifore4 ,illustration3 ,the ,weeda ,this sentimentle little ,animal is a most wonderfull disscriber--full of gaugeous colours4 ,she has a terrible fassinating kind of hero who goes out to battle talking several langwages with a gardeeniya and lavinder kid gloves on and carrying a ormerlew lunch-basket inlade with plovers eggs4 ,he makes little rings with his cigerret smoke while he conkuers the enemy4 ,he is a mixture of ,sandow and ,cupid and ,bobby ,spencer and ,richard ,curdyleong4 ,she is very kind hearted to other ,animals4 ,she was thought rather risky for girls-schools sometime ago untill all the ,mrs ,tankyrays started dragging their parsts about--then it didn't matter ,the ,tree ,no #de4 7,mr4 ,beerbohm ,tree47 ,isnt he nice and willowy4 ,it takes a very clothes study of anattemy to draw pessitions like this4 ,illustration3 ,the ,tree ,this pickturesk ,creature moves about on the boards in the most undewlating graceful manner and likes to have a skillful lime-lite man who can follow him about and squirt it nicely all over his expreshun4 ,he has built himself a gorgeous theertre called her magesty's because she dosnt never go near it4 ,he is awfull good at maykupps4 ,he likes to have no end of collums all about him4 ,the ,tadd has folded all his linen for him so nice that he looks just like a real ,roman figure4 ,what a washing-bill he must have with all those toegers and forums and things4 ,the ,lorryit ,no #df4 7,mr4 ,alfred ,austin47 ,i meant to have drorn him trying to get over a very rustick stile he's got but ,i quite forgot4 ,it dosnt matter does it4 ,illustration3 ,the ,lorryit ,this queer little ,animal has got himself smotherd in with lorrels and he dosnt hardly ever show--there has been too much rime outside for him ,i expeckt4 ,he is allways hearing voices what noboddy else can ,once it was like wimmen and children screming out for help4 ,now it sounds like ,ammerican4 ,it says it wants to have done with its worn-out tail the tail of a anshent wrong 7,it doesnt seem to mean much--does it7 ,when there is ,royel babies going on he has to sepply the ,royel familly with nice fresh odes and potery of a joyfull carecter--,that is what he is for--it must be a dredfull life ,the ,ellen ,no #dg4 7,miss ,ellen ,terry47 ,i am told ,miss ,louie ,freer is very much hurt at been passed over for this one but hers is a diffrent stile of luvliness--more like a ,wattow4 ,illustration3 ,the ,ellen4 ,this gracefull and skittish little ,animal is a wonder to behold4 ,she never seems to get no older in spight of the lapps of time4 ,when she gets playing with the ,stagynite the congrigation go quite silly with rapcher and they go on till they make her come out and bob about and kiss her hands in the most commical fashen4 ,she is a wonderfull good ,porsher and she has got a very nice ,oliviyer in stock too4 ,as long as she doesnt get too kittenish there is noboddy cant do it like her ,the ,sarabee ,no #dh4 7,madame ,s4 ,bernhardt47 ,this one seems to combine the suttle charm of a ,rumney with the deckretive effeckt of a peraffleite4 ,illustration3 ,the ,sarabee ,this remarkeble ,animal is the idle of the parizzians4 ,it is very snakey and dramattick4 ,it has the most blood-kerdling little ways of ettracting attenshen4 ,when it travles it takes black tiegers and coffins and skellitens along with it to make peeple talk and shudder4 ,it has a most lovly serching voise that is ordible in the cheap seats when you cant here a word the ,june premyier has got to say for himself4 ,it is quite a sculpcher too in its way and has got a stewjio where it paints in trowsers ,that seems very forwerd and exentrick but we musnt be too sensurious ,i seppose ,the ,villistanph ,no #di4 7,mr4 ,villiers ,stanford47 ,i havnt done justiss to the quire4 ,i havnt quite caught the look of aggytashen and holy enthewsiasum in there eyes--the mouths took up nearly all the room in the face4 ,illustration3 ,the ,villistanph ,this tewnful and most versytial little ,animal is hily skild at every sought of mewsick4 ,he keeps a quirefull of mewsickle arristicrats that call out ,bach together4 ,he persenally conduckts them through requiyumms and things and they get perple in the face trying to keep one eye on his conduckting-rod4 ,it must be a great strane for the eyesite4 ,he is awfull good at ,irish ,jiggs too--that must be a plesant change for them all after the congrigashen is all left4 ,the ,octavus ,no #ej4 7,sir ,henry ,thompson47 ,this is a studdy of exspreshen worthy of the best peeriads of english art so the stewdio says ,the impassetoe is very fine it says4 ,i should never have thaught of that4 ,illustration3 ,the ,octavus ,this clever soshable ,animle has got a mainyer for eights of everything4 ,eight gests--all sellybreighted--eight wines1 eight wayters1 eight o'clock and then they all corrusceight and sintilleight at him like anything4 ,he will soon been a octyginnaryin all over--wont that be a dellite to him4 ,hes a extrordnary surgen so he knows all about joints and things and is wonderfull good at diyett4 ,he spends all his spare time tickling up the palette4 ,he is a grate bleever in creamashen and says we shall all come to it some day--,i dont call that pollite1 do you4 ,i thaught that was riserved for those that is not regglar attenders at church or made faces at goveness4 ,the ,phil ,no #ea4 7,mr4 ,phil ,may47 ,i exspeckt ,i shall have to pressent this to the ,nashnal ,portret ,gallry--then ,i shall be handed down as his muniffisent dona4 ,illustration3 ,the ,phil ,this commicle little ,creature drors the hevenlyest picktures4 ,he has made the portrets of all the eyleet of ,petticote ,lane4 ,the critticks say he is a masster of teckneek4 ,it must be very nice to be called names like that--,i never get it4 ,he drors a mixtcher of ,albut ,dewra and ,mr ,sarjent and ,sir ,danniel ,leeno4 ,he oans a most bewtifull fringe that few can rivle4 ,i didnt mean to give him sech a addulating when ,i started--,i do hope it wont make him prowd and horty ,the ,wunnudiddit ,no #eb4 7,the ,perpetrator1 ,e4 ,t4 ,r47 ,i fear this will be a dredfull shock to some but they say ,i musnt tryfle with peaple's effecktions any longer4 ,it seems a pitty to have to rellinquish my incoggnetow4 ,illustration3 ,the ,wunnudiddit ,this abnoxious little ,animal is the anommylous auther of this ,ceres4 ,he got all in among the ,stone ,age once and kept all on doing the most ebsurd picktures ,he is a kind of ,preestorick ,pepys4 ,they were a ruff lot acording to him they ocupide all there spare time chopping oneynother up and dodging the most lothsome lumpy ,animals4 ,these picktures is coming out in book-phorm now so this is the ,,end4 ,what a releef to crownd heads and others that has got left out and what a mersyful releese from his ettroshus stile of spelling4 ,how dredfull plain he is too4 ,illustration3 ,tail-piece ,illustration ,bradbury1 ,agnew1 ,co4 ,ld41 ,printers1 ,london and ,tonbridge4 ,illustration 99 99 99 99 99 ,,transcriber',s ,,notes ,italic text is denoted by underscores and bold text by equal signs4 ,superscripts are indicated by a caret 1 or for multiple letters1 curly brackets enclosing the superscripted letters after a caret symbol e4g ,mrs4 ,every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible1 including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies4