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figuring as " Claud Hugo on the booze." " T'other 

 man playing the giddy bug." Or as " Mr and Mrs 

 Augustus Thompson on treaclemoonr We cannot 

 lay claim to the italics ; they emanate from the 

 funny man, and partake of his inveteracy. We 

 traced him through Wales in a variety of titles, 

 almost classable as the Visitors' Book Peerage 

 — as, for instance, Lord Llanberis, Lord Shag, 

 Duke of Seven Dials, Lord Watkins, Earl of Bird, 

 Queen of Table Waters. He warned us, in an 

 eruption of notes of exclamation, to " beware of 

 potass and sodas in Wales," and was himself 

 eclipsed by an inspired commentator, who added 

 in pencil, " and every other ass." 



The breezy and hardy athlete, also largely re- 

 presented, partakes of the nature of the funny 

 man, but has a liver unfitted for cynicism. He 

 is usually replete with the glory of his miles 

 per diem, and can only spare breath for a robust 

 epigram, such as " The breakfast we eat here this 

 morning will live in our remembrance." (Note by 

 funny man) "And the landlady's." 



