The Phil May Album Part 6

[Ill.u.s.tration: ON THE BRAIN

SIR BLUNDELL MAPLE, M.P.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: FORCE OF HABIT

PRISON PHOTOGRAPHER (_who has just obtained the post, to sitter, who is about to undergo twenty years' penal servitude_): "Now sir, look pleasant!"]

[Ill.u.s.tration: ON THE BRAIN

MR. ALBERT CHEVALIER]

[Ill.u.s.tration: THE UNKINDEST CUT

HE: "I grew a beard and moustache for ten years, and I forgot what I was like without, so I just shaved to see."

SHE: "And weren't you shocked?"]

[Ill.u.s.tration: "Hillo, Bill--blind again?"

"I beg pardon, I'm not blind at all; asha-matterer-fac, I can see twiche-ash-much as you."]

[Ill.u.s.tration: "Say, would you be so stupid as to lend me 5s.?"]

[Ill.u.s.tration: IN HER WAR-PAINT]

[Ill.u.s.tration: FAST AND LOOSE]

[Ill.u.s.tration: OBVIOUS]

[Ill.u.s.tration: MONSIEUR SARDOU]

[Ill.u.s.tration: PLEASANT MEMORIES

"Ah, it's many a day since I 'ad it!"]

[Ill.u.s.tration: SHE: "It must be a dreadful thing to become old and ugly.

I should much prefer to die young."

HE: "You'll have to hurry up then!"]

[Ill.u.s.tration: "I have a Song to Sing O."]

[Ill.u.s.tration: ON THE BRAIN

MR. BEERBOHM TREE]

[Ill.u.s.tration: A NASTY ONE

WRYMUG: "I a.s.sure you the blamed fog was so thick I couldn't find the way to my own mouth."

QUIZZER: "What! When it's just round the corner!"]

[Ill.u.s.tration: ON THE BRAIN

GENERAL BOOTH]

[Ill.u.s.tration: NEW USE FOR A CLOTHES-PEG

HOW TO OBTAIN A GOOD FRENCH ACCENT]

[Ill.u.s.tration: MISTRESS (_to new cook_): "Now are you sure you have had experience?"

COOK: "Oh, yes, mum! I've been in 'undreds of places."]