LIFE AND GENIUS OF GEOKGE CRUIKSHANK. 145 



us to introduce thee. Joey Duddle, the deaf postillion, ladies and 

 gentlemen ; what think ye of him ? 



Speaking candidly now has not Joey been deaf for a considerable 

 period ? The animals of Cruikshank are equally retrospective ; 

 their past achievements are strikingly apparent from their present 

 pursuits. To illustrate our remark, there is the horse bestridden by 

 Gilpin (how afflicted his face looks !) which never was completely 

 " broke in ;" he is a runaway, to the bone ! Conscious, as we are, 

 of our superb powers of equitation, we should be sorry to put our 

 foot in his stirrup : he is a downright bad one. Fancy yourself that 

 disconsolate cock, just under his frequent hoof! 



To return to our narrative George and his brother flourished as 

 caricaturists for several years. At length, satiated with political 

 fun, they determined on trying what they could do in another line. 

 " Life in London" was the consequence, and its effect was prodigious. 

 Every watchman had his Tom, and every night-constable was per- 

 fectly acquainted with Logic. Moncrieff wrote a piece from the cuts ; 

 for, as he told Egan, he had burnt the letter-press as being perfectly 

 useless and it proved the most successful drama that had ever been 

 produced. At its fiftieth representation, we even we were com- 

 pelled to see it from the orchestra seats in the boxes being utterly 

 impossible, unless one could condescend to an undignified rush ! 



