George Cruikshank's Omnibus. George Cruikshank

George Cruikshank's Omnibus

36. Tea-pot 154 37. The fashions 155 38. The boy's revenge 159 39. The living pincushion 159 40. Mrs. Toddles 160 41. Materials for making a ghost 163 42. The ghost 163 43. The bell-pull and the pigtail 166 44. Little Spitz 167 45. Last night of Vauxhall—the balloon 172 46. Simpson à la Shakspeare 175 47. Cupid with an umbrella 176 48. Love breaking hearts 176 49. Height of impudence 195 50. Mrs. Toddles at Margate 196 51. Ditto 196 52. The Dun 200 53. The Second Sleeper 202 54. Sliding Scale 217 55. Mile-stones—on the Rail-road 222 56. Butcher's Boy 225 57. Tar and Feathers 227 58. Corks 229 59. Turnpikeman and the Elephant 230 60. Three Figures of Fashion 230 61. Plan of the Tower of London 233 62. Bowyer Tower 235 63. Camperdown Anchor 235 64. Lady Jane's Room 236 65. The Fire-king Flue 236 66. Grenadiers playing on the Piano 262 67. Fireman playing on a Piano 263 68. Colonel Walker (or Talker) 264 69. Mrs. Toddles in a Fit 264 70. Such a Duck 281 71. The Horse by the Head 292 72. Sheer Tyranny 294 73. Sheer Kindness 294 74. Pope's Guard 296 75. Building an Angel 297 76. Mrs. Toddles in the Dickey 299 77. Mrs. T. and the Colonel dancing 299 78. As Broad as it's Long 300

OUR PREFACE.

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We have been entreated by a great many juvenile friends to "tell 'em all about our Engraved Preface in No. I.;" and entreaties from tender juveniles we never could resist. So, for their sakes, we enter into a little explanation concerning the great matters crowded into "our Preface." All children of a larger growth are, therefore, warned to skip this page if they please—it is not for them, who are, of course, familiar with the ways of the world—but only for the little dears who require a Guide to the great Globe they are just beginning to inhabit.

Showman.—"Now then, my little masters and missis, run home to your mammas, and cry till they give you all a shilling apiece, and then bring it to me, and I'll show you all the pretty pictures."

So now, my little masters and misses, have you each got your No. 1 ready? Always take care of that. Now then, please to look at the top of the circular picture which represents the world, and there you behold Her Majesty Queen Victoria on her throne, holding a court, with Prince Albert, in his field-marshal's uniform, by her side, and surrounded by ladies, nobles, and officers of state. A little to the right are the heads of the Universities, about to present an address. Above the throne you behold the noble dome of St. Paul's, on each side of which may be seen the tall masts of the British navy. Cast your eyes, my pretty dears, below the throne, and there you behold Mr. and Mrs. John Bull, and three little Bulls, with their little bull-dog; one little master is riding his papa's walking-stick, while his elder brother is flying his kite—a pastime to which a great many Bulls are much attached. Miss Bull is content to be a little lady with a leetle parasol, like her mamma. To the right of the kite you behold an armed man on horseback, one of those curious figures which, composed of goldbeater's skin, used to be sent up some years ago to astonish the natives; only they frightened 'em into fits, and are not now sent up, in consequence of being put down. And now you see "the world goes round." Turn your eyes a little to the right to the baloon and parachute,

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