"--_Scotch Paper._
We are glad they discarded the knave.
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[Illustration: _Country Cousin_ (_who suffers from his wife's elbow at
each crossing_). "Oo! lawks, Maria! Next time we've to cross lemme be
roon ower!"]
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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
(_By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks._)
_Double Life_ (Grant Richards) is a story that unblushingly bases its
appeal on the love of almost everyone for a fairy-tale of good fortune.
The matter of it is to show how a lady amateur, wife of a novelist,
herself hardly knowing one end of a horse from the other, might make
forty thousand pounds in a year on the Turf, without even her own
husband so much as suspecting her activities. The thing isn't likely, is
indeed a fantasy of the wildest improbability; but, told with the zest
imparted to it here by Mr. Grant Richards, it provides first-rate fun.
Some danger of monotony there was bound to be in what is really a
variation upon a single theme. Though the author cunningly avoids this,
I think it might justly be observed that he has made _Olivia's_ plunges
almost too uniformly successful.
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