True picture of the present time,
Drawn for us by the pencil prime
Of good MONTAGU WILLIAMS!

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[Illustration: "NOT AT HOME."

MISS SARAH SUFFRAGE (_indignantly_). "OH! '_OUT_' IS HE!"

EIGHT-HOURS BILL (_angrily_). "YUS!--AND HE WON'T GET '_IN_,' IF _I_
CAN, HELP IT!!"

(Mr. GLADSTONE has lately published an unsympathetic Pamphlet
on "Female Suffrage," and has declined to receive a Deputation
on the "Eight Hours Day" question.)]

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[Illustration: AN OVER-EXTENDED FRANCHISE.

(_The Radical Grocer has just been elected County Councillor._)

_My Lady_ (_to her pet protégée_). "PRAY WHOM DID YOUR HUSBAND VOTE
FOR?"

_Martha Stubbs_. "I DON'T KNOW, MY LADY."

_My Lady_. "BUT SURELY YOUR HUSBAND TOLD YOU?"