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"Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891"


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"THOUGHT-WAVES." (_By an Un-Esoteric._)--The Theosophists talk mistily
about "the concentration of mind-force on a thought-wave"--which seems
only another way of saying that such minds are, at the time, "quite at
sea."
* * * * *
[Illustration: "WHAT WILL HE DO WITH IT?"
STARVING RUSSIAN PEASANT. "IS NONE OF THAT FOR _ME_, 'LITTLE
FATHER'?"]
* * * * *
[Illustration: FANCY PORTRAIT.
SIR W.V. HARCOURT,
_THE_ "ODD FELLOW" OUT.]
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MONEY MAKES THE MAN.
(_A Fragment from a Romance dedicated by Mr. Punch to Mr.
Diggle._)
"It is entirely your own fault," said the intruder, as he put another
silver tea-pot in his bag.
"I don't see that at all," replied the master of the house, moving
uneasily in his chair.
"Well, I have not time to argue with you," returned the other, as he
held up an enamelled ship of beautiful workmanship. "Dear me, this is
really very fine. I have never seen anything like it before! What is
it?"
"I got it at a sale in Derbyshire. I fancy it must be something like
the old Battersea enamel."
"Very fine! And solid silver, too! Well, in all my experience, and
I have been in the profession some twenty years, I have seen nothing
like it.


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