ANIMAL STUDIES FROM “LIFE” 
77 
reminding us of the Late 
Ernest Griset. It is a light 
and pleasant fancy, not to 
be pushed too far. For 
what accommodation is 
there for the fare ? 
Mr. Grau pner’s snail- 
picture deals more with 
practicable fact. For the 
snail is an absolute free- 
holder and his house is his 
castle— till the nationalizing 
boot of some ruthless expro- 
priator terminates his ten- 
ancy. There is something “ you don't ex no 
about this drawing which Mrs. O’ Possum : “ 
quite irresponsibly brings 
to mind poor Dan Leno’s reply to his wife, 
who, quoting from an advertisement, asks, 
“Why pay 
rent ? f “ My 
dear,” quoth 
Dan, lt we 
don't!” 
The opossum 
family, like 
that of the 
rabbit, is apt 
to be large * 
and if opos- 
sums do run 
tram cars or 
r a i 1 w a y s of 
their own there 
must be a deal 
of difficulty 
about haljf- 
tickcts, not to 
consider t h e 
. “l THINK THIS EASTER HONK 
case ol some NEEDS more trimming on t 
determined side.” 
CT ME TO TAKE the WHOLE HUNCH ON ONE FARE?” 
I CERTAINLY DO. THEY ARE UNDER AGE.” 
matron who declines to pay at all, as Mr. 
Barnes imagines. 
Mr. E. D. Lance, in the next draw- 
ing, celebrates the eternal feminine. The 
duckling, not yet wholly out of its Easter 
egg-shell, already coquets with the mirror 
of the pond, and considers trimmings for 
what is left of the shell. 
The monkey - dentist interviewed by 
the rhinoceros seems ready to face a large 
responsibility. Suppose the toothache 
does chance to be external, what will he 
do to the horn ? But perhaps his pro- 
fessional quandary is less distracting than 
that of the frog-tailor, whose task it is to 
suit a dress to the changing complexion 
of a lady chameleon ! 
But birds, after all, make what may fie 
called (in the States) the u heavy jerk ” 
in American pictorial animal humour. On 
the next page is the disgruntled cock who 
finds cold worms confronting him for 
HE dinner, and the sparrow who is dis- 
respectful of the balloon -like chests of 
the pouter pigeons. 
Hippo.: “i’vkgot a toothache.” 
Dr. Monk: “INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL?” 
VoI f xlvi.— 12. 
“ PARDON ME, MISS CHAMELEON, BUT HOW DO YOU 
EXPECT A COAT TO SUIT YOUR COMPLEXION WHEN 
YOU CHANGE COLOUR WITH EVERY GARMENT?” 
