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LIFE AND GENIUS OF GEORGE CEUIKSHANK. 



time to introduce him. Here he is, drawn by himself on the right, 

 discussing with Hone about the " Slap at Slop," or some other of 

 their joint political facetiae. 



This is a capital portrait of George : and although done some years 

 ago it is still delightfully like him. An hour ago, George Cruik- 

 shank was sitting opposite us, pencil in hand ; at this moment, with 

 a trifling difference in apparel and mustachio, gentle reader, if you 

 will condescend to fancy yourself Hone, and mosaic yourself into the 

 engraving, George Cruikshank will sit opposite you. 



Now for his autograph. George writes a queer, dashing, hurried, 

 run-away hand, much like our own : but his signature is pictorial. 

 The reader may form a tolerably correct idea of it, by magnifying to 

 the breadth of a side of letter-paper, the letters interwoven among the 

 ground lines of the subsequent cut a tail-piece to the bill of fare, of 

 " Three Courses and a Dessert." 



