Bless yer, we've stood it before, and can stand it agen, all this
fussing.
_My_ game's a swig and a smoke; as for them--they can go on
"discussing."

[_Shuts door, and retires to his snuggery for spirituous
solace_.

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[Illustration: BUMBLE AT HOME; OR, "THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT."

"CLEAR THE STREETS!--AND IN SUCH BEASTLY WEATHER?--UGH! NOT IF I KNOW
IT!!"

(_December 31, 1890, and January, 1891._)]

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THE COMPOSER COMING.

[Illustration: "I've an hoe," by Sir Arthur Sullivan.]

[Illustration: Mus Doc.]

We are looking forward to _Ivanhoe_, by Sir ARTHUR S. SULLIVAN, Mus.
Doc. From what our Musical Critic has seen of the score, he is able to
wink his eye wisely but not too well, and to hint that as _Mr. Guppy_
says, "There are chords"; and to make these chords in combination,
the strings are admirably fitted. There is one chord (will it be