CONTENTS. CHRISTMAS PIECES :— I.—KING ALFRED AND THE CAKES . . . . 1I.—WILLIAM TELL . : . . Ill.—ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE : . ‘ . . SKATES AND LIFE . . . . . . . HOW THE LAST ACT OF HAMLET WAS WRITTEN A CHRISTMAS CROAK . . . : . ; . A POT OF PRESERVES FROM MOUNT PARNASSUS :— I.—A SPECIMEN OF THE PERPETUAL MOTION, OR SOCIAL PROGRESS SCHOOL :— ‘(KEEP IT UP MY RUM ’UNS”’ ‘ : II.—THE SUPERANNUATED KITCHEN UTENSIL SCHOOL “oars MEAT”, ; ; ‘ 11I,—THE ETHIOPIAN SCHOOL : . . , . ‘‘onp GINGER CROW” ; ‘ : IV.—CONCLUDING SPECIMEN :— . . . ‘nts SWEET TO ROAM WHEN MORNING'S FOPULAR NOTIONS OF POPULAR ACTORS :— MR, FRANK MATTHEWS . . : : . : MR, WRIGHT MR, O. SMITH MR, BLAND LIGHT’”’ PAGE 18 70 87 89 96 97