Amid the confusion, a manly voice shouted, "Three cheers for the Hero of
Winchester!"
"That's Wright!" yelled the shock-headed young man with the red nose....
Then I left the scene, pondering as I went, "What manner of painter is
this, who can so deftly limn the features of a hero as to draw tears
from his worshippers and bullets from his foes?" And, as I pondered,
that abstruse conundrum of CHURCH, the artist, came to my mind: "What
if, after all, READ, your brush should steal the laurels from your pen?"
"What," indeed?
CHROMO.
[Illustration: CHARLEY, WHO HAS HAD HIS HAIR DRESSED AT THE BARBER'S,
SHOWS HIS LITTLE BROTHER, WITH THE AID OF THE CRUET-STAND, HOW IT IS
DONE.]
A Long Look-out.
The dome on the new court-house is expected to be completed by Domesday.
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Appropriate.
Lester Wallack has his "Tayleure" travelling with him during his
"starring" trip.
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"PLEASE THE PIGS."
Foreign Pig, we observe, furnishes a topic just now for writers in the
daily papers. IRON-ically speaking, pig, in the sense referred to, means
a lump of metal; but the _World_ of March 26th has an accidental,
though none the less curious, "cross-reading," which brings foreign pig
directly into contact with domestic.
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