Front matter
Reading edition
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The Artist.—It’s no good making that noise, my good fellow. As I told you just now, being a landscape-painter, I don’t want models.
(From a drawing by Philip Baynes.)

The Fun Library
Edited by J.A. Hammerton Editor of the Punch Library of Humour