ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
"'Are you related to Governor McKinley?'"
"Alarmed the cook"
"'What are the first symptoms of insanity?'"
"'Reading Webster's Dictionary'"
"'I stuck to the pigs'"
The conspirators
"'Weren't your ears long enough?'"
"'The corks popped to some purpose last night'"
"'If you could spare so little as one flame'"
The school-master as a cooler
"'Reading the Sunday newspapers'"
Bobbo
Wooing the Muse
"'He gave up jokes'"
"'A little garden of my own, where I could raise an occasional can of tomatoes'"
"'A hind-quarter of lamb gambolling about its native heath'"
"'The gladsome click of the lawn-mower'"
"'You don't mean to say that you write for the papers?'"
"'We wooed the self-same maid'"
Curing insomnia
"Holding his plate up to the light"
"'I believe you'd blow out the gas in your bed-room'"
"'His fairy stories were told him in words of ten syllables'"
"'I thought my father a mean-spirited assassin'"
"'Mrs. S. brought him to the point of proposing'"
"'Hoorah!' cried the Idiot, grasping Mr. Pedagog by the hand"
