dlesticks, or the machines with little
bone grave-stones that shut up with a snap, bother me), and amiable
conversation on well-chosen topics while the game goes on, make the
kind of Whist that I enjoy. We used to play it in Common Room in the
happy past; it was easier than Loo, which I never quite understood.
The rigour of the game is the ruin of Whist.

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[Illustration: THE NEW L.C.C. WAXWORKS.

There has not been time yet to arrange the Figures.]

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POPULAR SONGS RE-SUNG.

"_Sich a Nice Man Too!_" is one of the latest, and greatest,
successes of the clever Coster Laureate, Mr. ALBERT CHEVALIER,
who, "Funny without being Vulgar," proves that he, the Muse
of the Market Cart, and Bard of the Barrow, "Knocks 'em in the
Old Kent Road,"--and elsewhere--with well-deserved success.
As is ever the case with the works of genuine genius, "liberal
applications lie" in his "patter" songs, the enjoyment of
which need by no means be confined to the Coster and his
chums. For example, at Caucus-Conferences and places where
they sing--and shout--the following might be rendered with
relish:--

NO. VII.--SICH A SMART MAN TOO!

(_COSTER-JIM ON CORKUS-JOE._)

There's party-men yer meets about
What wins yer 'eart instanter;
Of _their_ success there's ne'er a doubt,
They romps in in a canter.
There's one as means to lick the lot,
Brum JOE, the artf'llst dodger.
For 'im we Rads went 'ot and 'ot;
Sez we, "Yus, JOE's the codger!"

[Illustration]

_Chorus._

Sich a smart man too! Sich a _very_ smart man!
No Tory pride, no toffish affectation!
Yet 'e somehow makes yer feel
That in 'im yer 'ave to deal
With a gent, if not by buth, by edgercation!

'E made 'is pile in a snide way,--
"Down on ther nail," 'is motter--
Went to the front, and came to _stay_;
Whigs might pertest and potter.
'Is game wos doin' the poor good,
And doin' of it 'andsome.
JACK CADE they called 'im,--which wos rude--
'Acos 'e talked o' ransom!

_Chorus._

Sich a smart man too! Sich a _very_ smart man!
No "Lily" pride, no blue--blood affectation!
Yet he somehow made yer feel
That in 'im yer 'ad to deal
With a gent by nature _and_ by edgercation!

You ought to seen 'im on the stump,
Smart frock and stiff shirt collar;
Got up regardless, cle