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THE STRAND MAGAZINE. 
Family pride is a little out of fashion 
nowadays*, but there seems no reason for 
allowing it to decline in animals — indeed, 
every dog show, every poultry show, encourages 
and rewards it. Therefore it is possible to 
“SAY, isn’t MR. ROOSTER EVERLASTINGLY 
STUCK UP?” 
“ RIGHT YOU ARE ! HE HAS BERN READING 
UP HIS LINEAGE, AND CLAIMS TO BE A DIRECT 
DESCENDANT OF THE HEN THAT LAID THE EGG 
THAT COLUMBUS STOOD ON END.” 
show some sympathy with the fowl who boasts 
direct descent from Columbus’s egg. 
And when Mr. Kuhn draws a pair of 
pigeons aghast at a speed-limit sign, the 
picture needs no legend at all. 
The kangaroo and its pouch can never be 
neglected by the comic draughtsman who 
deals with animal life, and, indeed, none of 
them show any signs of neglecting it. 
The little conversation printed under Mr. 
Fenderson s picture tells the story clearly 
enough. 
HOME? ” 
“yes; BUT SHE ain’t UP YET.” 
The mouse-cabman who makes a hansom 
of a snail makes a figure in a drawing showing 
• 
Mr. Mouse: “hansom cab, lady? hansom? 
hansom?” 
something more of quaint fancy than of 
sheer humour — something, perhaps, a little 
“ I DO.” 
