y task is done!"

No. 107. "_Outside the Pail; or, 'Nell' the Dairing Dairymaid._" Taken
in the act by R.C. CRAWFORD (give him several inches of canvas, and
he'll take a NELL) as she was about to put a little water out of the
stream into the fresh milk pail.

[Illustration: No. 212. "The Left-out Gauntlet." "Come as you
are, indeed! Nonsense. It's most annoying! Here am I got up most
expensively as a Knight in Armour, and I'm blessed if the confounded
cuss of a cusstumier hasn't forgotten to send my right gauntlet!" John
Pettie, R.A.]

[Illustration: No. 173. "A First Rehearsal." "The celebrated actor,
Mr. Gommersal of Astley's Amphitheatre, made up and attired as the
Great Napoleon, entered the Manager's room, where the author of the
Equestrian Spectacular Melodrama of 'The Battle of Waterloo' was
seated finishing the last Act. 'What do you think of this?' asked Mr.
G., triumphantly. 'Not a bit like it,' returned the author, sharply.
'What!' exclaimed the astonished veteran, 'do you mean to say my
make-up for Napoleon isn't good! Well I'm ----' 'You will be, if
you appear like that,' interrupted the author decisively,"--Vide
_Widdicomb's History of the Battle of Waterloo at Astley's_. W.Q.
Orchardson, R.A.]

[Illustration: No. 344. The Reeds' Entertainment. Gallery of
Illustration. Interval during change of costume. "Behold these
graceful Reeds!" Arthur Hacker.]

No. 130. _A (Sir Donald) Currie_, admirably done in P. and O. (Paint
and Oil) by W.W. OULESS, R.A.

[Illustration: No. 204. "Three Little Maids from School." A wealth of
colour. The subject is this:--After an ample school-feast, the girls
sat drowsily under an orange-tree, when they were suddenly startled
by the appearance of a snake. "Don't be frightened, Betsy Jane," cried
Anna Maria, the eldest; "'ee won't 'urt yer, 'ee only comes from the
Lowther Harkade." Sir Fred. Leighton, Bart., P.R.A.]

No. 211. "_Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind._"--_As You Like It._ But we
_don't_ like it--we mean, the wind, of course. Oh, so desolate and
dreary! We suppose that in order to keep himself warm, Sir JOHN must
have been thoroughly wrapped up in his work when he painted this. Sir
J.E. MILLAIS, Bart., R.A.

No. 228. "_The Great Auk's Egg._" "Auk-ward moment: is it genuine or
not? He bought it at an Auk-tion; it had probably been auk'd about
before, genuine or not There'll be a _great tauk (!)_ about it," says
H.S. MARKS, R.A.

No. 238. "With a little pig here a