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On the principle that nobody keeps what everybody else has, so an etching or a print, which is published by its thousands, often becomes extremely rare in a verv short space of time. Manv of them are well worth the keeping, well worth the framing, and well worth the hanging. There is a wealth of drawing worth framing from the pens of such men as Phil Mav * " '-' Too much good work is just now allowed to waste. — TIic Sketch. I I Sec Frontispiece. Critics. f i Mortal En eimes. Ml ^ :f Aristocrats. Distinction. Famine and Plenty. { 7'^ ^^ The Broken Heart. The Oueen's Recruits. The Jollv Angler.' »l Halves ! \ A Large Investment. «i Orpheus with his Lut(.\ Getting Money for Father. Getting Father Home, Training for the Circus. u,w Flowers and Feathers. A Pair of High Steppers. "Lost ver Wages — 'ole in yer Pocket, eh ?' ' "Seated one dav on the Organ— \(^^ Hope and Fear. A Studv in Black and White. Under Compulsion. A Long Pull. Love's Young Dream. r" Nv\ f-^ Nabbed. Set to Partners. "I see Yer!" That Little Viilrar Bov. The Envv of the Court. *^ S^ ^•I'L h/»v Kish ver Father, Ducky. Only a A'penny." Up to Date. '■^^ Business. {'-i^> Lor! 1 thought 'e were Alive!' ^cr<^/ Cupboard Love. ^-€*^ I L ej L^ ^^'/ Won't she Catch it ! To Brighton and Back, 3/6. i Beatitude. " Don't be sitch a Sillv Fool. All Sorts and Conditions. -^^Wl^ Chaffing and Chafferin Carry it, Sir ? " " Hextni, .Sir?" iOB. An Accident. ^^s See Frontispiece \V-, H ^^-j'^^ ft % -^J// ^ / I '(• PHIL may's I' So IM PEN B^IIVK;.. ?C|X j^of^o^t^ - /''Tne^e sketched ^ mkcocc^ ^cp'J'^ATeL;^ ^'"//^iqnnp) Proof copies (1,050 only, separately 'i numbered) bound in cloth, 6/- fall sold J) In stiff paper covers 2/6 PMl May's Gutter-Snipes 50 original pen-and-ink drawings of gutter children at their games ; quarto, stiff covers, half-a-crown. lOXDOS: THE tEADESHALL PRESS, LIMITED, 50, LEADESHALL STREET, E.C. " Unique."— Bris/o/ Times. " Inimitable.'' — Bookseller. '' True pathos." — Scotsman. 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