Commissioner KERR to pay costs as
well, and committal to prison for three weeks on the charge of "contempt of
Court"--for disobeying an order which Justices SMITH and GRANTHAM declare
the genial Commissioner had no sort of right to make!!!
If this is the "hire-purchase system," a piano-less life is infinitely
preferable to braving its manifold perils and penalties. Easy terms,
indeed? Yes,--about as "easy" as "easy shaving" with a serrated
oyster-knife! Mrs. WALTER'S fate should be a warning to would-be
piano-purchasers, and, _Mr. Punch_ would fain hope, to exacting
System-workers and arbitrary Commissioners.
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[Illustration: "PLEASE GIVE ME A PENNY!"
NEEDY INCOME-TAX PAYER (loq.). "HOPE YOU WON'T FORGET ME _THIS TIME_,
SIR!!"]
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FOR BETTER OR WORSE!
(_Two Views of the Same Subject._)
POSSIBLE ROMANCE.
SCENE--_A Dungeon beneath the Castle Moat. Wife chained to a post, with
bread and water beside her. Enter Husband, with cat-o'-nine-tails._
_Husband._ And now, after ten days' seclusion, will you make over your
entire property to me, signing the deed with your life's blood?
_Wife_ (_in a feeble voice_).
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