The Project Gutenberg eBook, Our People, by Charles Samuel Keene

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OUR PEOPLE

Sketched by

CHARLES KEENE.

from the Collection of "Mr. Punch."

BOSTON,

JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.

1881.


Our People. At Home.
Our People. Street-Life.
Our People. In the Country.
Our People. Travelling.
Our People. Professional.
Our People. Official.
Our People. In the Army.
Our People. Art and Artists.
Our People. Volunteers.
Our People. At Business.
Our People. Domestics.
Our People. Working Folk.
Our People. In Ireland.
Our People. In Scotland.
&c., &c.

Toots! theres no a Jok' i' th' 'hale beuk!


COMPANION to "OUR PEOPLE,"

ENGLISH SOCIETY AT HOME,

Society Pictures By

George Du Maurier.

JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co., PUBLISHERS.


Mens Conscia.


Dignity.


Family Pride.


Bad Customer.


"March of Refinement."


Refrigerated Tourists.


Intelligent Pet.


"Durance."


The Mystery Solved.


A Pledged M. P.


"Perils of the Deep."


"The Pink of Fashion."


The Bird Show.


"Trying."


Common Prudence.


The Triumphs of Temper.


"For Better for Worse."


A Half Truth.


Poor Humanity!


Family Ties.


"Prevention Better than Cure."


The Roll-Call.


Gentility in Greens.


Plain to Demonstration.


Unprejudiced!


A Kind Son.


Crass Ignorance.


A Change in the Weather.


"Res Angustæ Domi."


Irish Ingenuity.


Scrupulous.


A Game Two can Play at.


Decimals on Deck.


More "Revenge for the Union."


The Ulster.


"Silence is Golden."


Barometrical.


A Family Man.


Unconscionable.


A Narcotic.


The Connoisseur.


Awful Warning!


The Sausage Machine.


Just in Time.


Words and Weights.


"Mal Apropos."


"A Slip o' the Tongue."


Confession in Confusion.


The New Running Drill.


Our Military Manœuvres.


The Race not yet Extinct.


A Dilemma.


Adjustment.


A Mine of Speculation.


"Argumentum ad Hominem!"


Veneration.


A Soft Answer.


Seasonable Luxury.


Education!


Cricket!


Treacherous Confederate.


Breaking the Ice.


The First Sermon.


"Sweet is Revenge, Especially to Women!"


Desperate Case!


Exchange!


A Degenerate Son.


Lucid!


The Riding Lesson.


Look before you Leap.


No Mistake, this Time.


State o' Trade.


"Let Well Alone!"


"Le Jeu ne Vaut pas la Chandelle."


"Tho' Lost to Sight——"


Precise.


An Extensive Order.


"No such Luck."


"'Tis Better not to Know."


Vested Interests.


"Chaff."


"Is It Possible?!"


A Panic in the Kitchen.


Proof Positive.


"Qualifications."


Temptation.


"Spoiling It."


Particular!


Vivifying Treatment of a Partner.


Arbiter Elegantiarum.


"The Servants."


"Hard Lines."


"Not to Put too Fine a Point on It."


"Never Say 'Die'"


"Ingenuas Didicisse" &c.


A Plutocrat.


"Matter!"


A Final Appeal.


Division of Labor.


"Off."


"Where Ignorance is Bliss" &c.


Complimentary.


"(Not) Thankful for Small Mercies"


Delicacy.


"The Servants."


Retributive Justice.


"By the Card."


In Jeopardy.


Heresy.


"Oh, the Mistletoe Bough!"


Culture for the Working Classes.


A Casual Acquaintance.


"Circumlocutory!"


Alarming.


Weights and Measures.


"Small Mercies."


Tyranny.


A Perfect Cure.


In Consequence of the Tailors' Strike.


"As Well as Can be Expected."


Penny Wise.


Reminiscences.


"Hoist with His Own 'Pomade'!"


Distracting.


A Compliment.


XXX Cellent Reasons.


Sympathy.


Liberal to a Fault.


Civil Service Miseries.


"Men were Deceivers Ever."


A Sinister Slip.


Force of Habit.


"Alma Mater."


Embarrassing.


A Straightforward View.


"The Better the Day." &c.


A Distinction.


Considerate.


Rustic Recollections.


Not a "Silver Lining" to a Cloud.


"What's in a Name?"


A New Dish.


Our Artist


Hunting Idiot,


Boxing-Day.


An Old Offender.


Irrevocable.


Mrs. Jingleton. Learning that Young M Skirlygy


Arcadian Amenities.


A Big Fish.


The Pic-Nic.


Artful—Very!


"The Grey Mare!"


How We Arrange Our Little Dinners.


Conclusive.


Our Manœuvres.


"Our Reserves,"—The Battle of Amesbury.


A Little Failing.


The Connoisseurs.


"Io Bacche!"


A Veteran.


"What's the Odds?"


"There's Many a Slip" &c.


Lingua "East Anglia."


A Luxurious Habit.


The Golden Age Restored.


"No Accounting for Taste."


Sold Cheap.


Selling Him a Pennyworth.


A Change for the Better.


Colloquial Equivalents.


"The Meat Supply."


"Tracts."


"A Ticket of Leave."


A Pleasant Prospect.


Reassuring.


Woman's Rights.


"Canny."


Stern Pulpit Critics.


The Commissariat.


Duty and Pleasure.


"Business!"


Sacrifice.


Extenuating Circumstances.


A Definition.


Mystification.


Obliging.


Our Theatricals.


Flattering.


Comparisons.


Delicately Put.


A Rash Refusal.


A Guilty Conscience.


Equal to the Situation.


The Convalescent.